The game Link to the Past is recognized as one of the best in the series in terms of story telling, and in world size. The size of the world map, and how players can interact with the environment and talk to the non-player-characters is one of the things that makes this game so attractive to people even today, 14 years after its release in 1992.
The user has many choices of what to do in the game, and many paths to take. Most of these paths in the computer gaming community are called side-quests. The more side-quests there are, the more content and story telling the game has. These (usually optional) deviations from the normal plot of the game, usually can give the player a more enriched story, and make the game more fun.
This game was created for the super nintendo game console, and after some time, this game was remade into a multiplayer game, as well as an extended version of the game which existed as a series of broadcasts from the BS-X satellite system.