Shooting an apple off one's child's head of the story is in the legend of William Tell, supposedly happening to start off the Swiss revolution, written first in the 15th-century "White Book of Sarnen", then in Aegidius Tschudi's 16th-century "Chronicon Helveticum", and later the basis for Friedrich Schiller's 1804 play. Tell is arrested for failing to bow in respect to the hat that the newly appointed Austrian "Vogt", Albrecht Gessler, has placed on a pole, and Gessler commands him to shoot an apple off his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow. After splitting the apple with the single shot (supposedly on November 18, 1307),
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past GBA additions or changes. The next "Zelda" title, was released in 1993 for the Nintendo Game Boy. It retained many of "A Link to the Past"s gameplay mechanics, including the top-down perspective, as well as an overworld which resembled that of "A Link to the Past". After traveling to train abroad, Link is shipwrecked and awakens on an island called Koholint. Beginning on March 2, 1997 a simple unaltered re-release of the original Japanese version of "A Link to the Past" was broadcast via Satellaview. The game would be rebroadcast more often than any other Zelda title on the Satellaview,