When Zelda: A Link to the Past released for the SNES in English, players found a secret room that contained a very out of place, real person's name: "Chris Houlihan". Years later, an official...
When Zelda: A Link to the Past released for the SNES in English, players found a secret room that contained a very out of place, real person's name: "Chris Houlihan". Years later, an official statement from Nintendo Power magazine said that this was a reward for a contest held two years before the game came out.
There were a lot of odd circumstances around the contest, such the lack of a proper announcement of a contest winner for many years, that created a lot of doubt around the situation. There were many fan theories: Chris died shortly after the contest so they never announced it, or that he never existed and they made up a name to make the contest not look like a scam, or something similar.
After decades of debate, Youtuber Kevin Hainline, by pure luck, got to meet thee Chris Houlihan in person and solve the mystery.
When Zelda: A Link to the Past released for the SNES in English, players found a secret room that contained a very out of place, real person's name: "Chris Houlihan". Years later, an official statement from Nintendo Power magazine said that this was a reward for a contest held two years before the game came out.
There were a lot of odd circumstances around the contest, such the lack of a proper announcement of a contest winner for many years, that created a lot of doubt around the situation. There were many fan theories: Chris died shortly after the contest so they never announced it, or that he never existed and they made up a name to make the contest not look like a scam, or something similar.
After decades of debate, Youtuber Kevin Hainline, by pure luck, got to meet thee Chris Houlihan in person and solve the mystery.