The Quest to Solve Zelda's 30+ Year Long Mystery
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- Опубликовано: 1 сен 2023
- Join me as I take on the challenge to uncover the truth of the Chris Houlihan room in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the Super Nintendo (1991, 1992). Who is Chris Houlihan? How did Chris Houlihan get his name into the secret room? Why did it take Nintendo so long to announce Chris Houlihan's existence in A Link to the Past? Let's find out!
Let me know your Chris Houlihan theories/facts/knowledge in the comments!
That's like the Metroid theory about Justin Bailey, and weather he existed or not.
"If Nintendo put the room into the game, how did Nintendo not know how to enter the room?"
One thing to consider in the weirdness of the timing of all of this is the year offset in the release of Japan and N American games. If Nintendo Power had their contest winner in November 1990, by that time Super Mario World and F Zero would have been out in Japan, with SimCity being the only probable near-future choice. Miyamoto's team would probably be starting to chip away at "Zelda 3", and let's say you're coordinating to put a contest winner in a game and it's December 1990; do you choose SimCity or Zelda 3? Obvious choice IMO.
Ken at GTV knows his stuff I've known him for years. If he says he can't locate Chris, it can't be done. I've got more faith in his video truths than anyone else
Nice video. I remember when I looked up Chris way way back years ago, it was so fascinating to find out who or why his name was in the game. I encountered the room a couple times on my snes but never accidently on a emulator, i did play for hours so it might have to do something with the memory of the game/console too, and not just with links position, but I can't say for sure.
I was so sure I'd heard him being found, yet i must admit it seems i must've imagined it
Back in the cart days, they did sometimes stealth patch games, so you'd wind up with different software versions, but zero note of it on the carts or packaging. This would explain the possibility of "some don't have the room"
A few theories
Plot twist, Chis is short for Christine. ;)
Just to add the In later numbers of club Nintendo they published a way to reliably access to Chriss Room. I did it many times in my young years
The room was made as an easter egg for a Nintendo Power contest winner. You can only get into it when the game loses track of where you're supposed to be.
Hey great video. We’re you the one asking me for Club Nintendo issues last month or was that a coincidence? 😅
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I must've seen hundreds of videos on this topic by now, seen many posts online about it, etc. I never really looked into it myself, but based on all the research that has been presented in all those sources, my theory is that Nintendo probably had some kind of internal conflict over it. Like maybe the contest was run before everyone was on board with it after some internal power struggles and maybe some turnover they were going to drop the matter and pretend it never happened. It wasn't unheard of for Nintendo of Japan to be overly strict over what they wanted Nintendo of America to be doing.
This is fascinating, and it seems that like as in all good mysteries, as more information surfaces, we are left with more questions than answers. Also if it’s true that the room does not appear on all instances of the game, would that make some link to the past carts more collectible than others? 🤔
By entering u must give a photograph which is the same as printing your info. They must say who's in the photo. If not get out your checkbook Nintendo
My dad works at Nintendo and he can verify that this is all true.
If it was Todd Rodgers or billy Mitchell oh damn
Has no reporter ever asked miyamoto about this? You watch it was his childhood friend