Chris Houlihan's Room
Message from a telepathic tile in Chris Houlihan's Room
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Chris Houlihan's Room is a secret location found in A Link to the Past.
Chris Houlihan's Room is a failsafe in the game - it is only accessed when the game cannot load the room associated with a hole Link is falling into because of corrupt location data. The room's layout consists of five groups of nine Blue Rupees (45 in total, worth 225 rupees), a Telepathic Tile, and a water-covered floor.
The room is named so because, in 1990, Nintendo Power magazine Volume 16 had a contest where one had to take a picture of them finding an elusive boss in the game of Final Fantasy and then mail the picture in, with the winner having "his or her name...programmed into a future Nintendo game!". In the December 1994 issue of the Mexican Club Nintendo magazine, the "Dr Mario" letters column stated that Chris Houlihan won such a contest [1], resulting in his name appearing in this secret room of A Link to the Past, and it is generally believed that this is the contest in question. It was later, further, stated in Volume 105 of Nintendo Power itself that Houlihan's name appearing was the result of a Nintendo Power competition while reporting the winner of a then-recent Turok 2: Seeds of Evil competition. The room is only named after Houlihan in Nintendo of America's SNES English translation of the game and versions which use this.
In the Game Boy Advance port of this game, the corrupt location data bug was patched, and the room can only be accessed through glitching or using cheating devices. The floor is no longer blue except directly under the rupees, and the Telepathic Tile was removed along with any mention of Chris Houlihan's name.
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With no rupees collected (SNES).
As landed in with no rupees collected (GBA)
Room in full with no rupees collected (GBA)
Competition from Nintendo Power Volume 016 (September / October 1990)
Club Nintendo (Mexico) 1994 #12 letters column, stating (in Spanish) that Chris Houlihan won a competition from Nintendo Power to be named in A Link to the Past
Club Nintendo (Mexico) 1994 #12 letters column, continued
From letters page of Nintendo Power Volume 105 (February 1998).
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