The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - 100% complete in box

Starting a couple of years ago I began completing my game collection by obtaining boxes and manuals for various games I owned.  I was missing most of the boxes for my NES games and several for my SNES games.

As I said in the description for my Link to the Past playthrough on Youtube, I received the game for Christmas of 1992 with my brand new Super Nintendo.  However, sadly, my family must have thrown away the boxes almost immediately because I can't remember ever having the game box (or even the system box) except for that single Christmas morning.  The only thing we managed to keep was the cartridge and the manual (which is pretty worn out).  That cartridge is in good shape though.


In early 2012 I managed to pick up an excellent condition box, manual and some inserts for A Link to the Past (without the cartridge, since I didn't need it) off ebay for only $28.  Can you believe that?  I got lucky.  A few of the inserts were missing (the Nintendo Power flyer and the Master Sword poster), but I was happy enough to have the box and a better manual.

Starting this year Keet got me to pay more attention to the little inserts that came in various games, so I began obtaining those missing parts.  Well, once again luck was on my side, and I found the two remaining parts to a Link to the Past.

What you are looking at below is a 100% complete copy of A Link to the Past.  Even the plastic bag for the cartridge is there:

From what I have seen, there were some variations on these inserts though (before the Player's Choice version was released).  The "I Brought Light to the Dark World" insert is hard to find and appears to be unique to this game (based on the SNS-ZL-USA code printed on it), but some copies of A Link to the Past seem to have come with "I Turned into Bowser's Worst Nightmare" instead.  Also, some copies may have come with a more generic poster with square pictures of various SNES games instead of the Super Scope/Master Sword poster.  But I prefer the inserts I have here since they go with Zelda.

This is definitely a huge treasure in my collection.  A Link to the Past is probably the hardest standard Zelda game to obtain 100% complete because of all the inserts and the skyrocketing resale prices.  I'm not counting special edition releases, of course.

Anyway, I thought people might like to see that, especially if they try to obtain a complete copy themselves.

Oh, here's my old, original manual in all its beat-up glory: