Dittohead Servbot #24 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Those of you who've played Zelda Link to the Past know about the Chris Houlihan room. He was the grand prize winner in a Nintendo Power contest and as a result, forever received video game immortality. That being said, whatever happened to Mr. Houlihan himself? He (the person) is not mentioned in Wikipedia. Does he have a MySpace/Facebook page or something? I'm just curious as to what became of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdement Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I remember reading about this once before, but I've never found this room myself. I just looked up how to get there, and wow, it's ridiculous. There's no sense to it, and no reason anybody would ever find it except by dumb luck. Maybe 3 people found it before the internet. And it's so nonsensical that those people probably wouldn't be able to figure out how to reproduce it again. It seems lame to me that they had this contest, promising such a cool prize, only to hide the winner so deep into the game that almost nobody would ever see it. I wonder even if Houlihan himself knew he was in the game, or where. And they don't even have a character standing there - it's just a talking wall plaque that says his name. I don't know what the contest terms were, so maybe this is what they advertised. But even if it said it would be a "secret room" - there are secrets and then there are SECRETS. This secret is so obscure it looks like he got cheated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSchoolRetroGamer Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I remember reading about this once before, but I've never found this room myself. I just looked up how to get there, and wow, it's ridiculous. There's no sense to it, and no reason anybody would ever find it except by dumb luck. Maybe 3 people found it before the internet. And it's so nonsensical that those people probably wouldn't be able to figure out how to reproduce it again. It seems lame to me that they had this contest, promising such a cool prize, only to hide the winner so deep into the game that almost nobody would ever see it. I wonder even if Houlihan himself knew he was in the game, or where. And they don't even have a character standing there - it's just a talking wall plaque that says his name. I don't know what the contest terms were, so maybe this is what they advertised. But even if it said it would be a "secret room" - there are secrets and then there are SECRETS. This secret is so obscure it looks like he got cheated. Count me as one of those who found it by dumb luck lol! I was playing the game for so long and when that happened I could not believe it! I was unaware of the contest or any reason I found what I did, that sucked because I had no means to record it or prove it and of course I tried to repeat what happened and never could................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagitekAngel Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Maybe he's an AA member. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tz101 Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Here's a youtube clip of how to find the Chris Houlihan room: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXp124VgFrw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opeygon Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 umm...sooo...that didn't look to hard to find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odysseus Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Its not as easy as it looks. Yoy have to do it very fast, and cant take damage on the way. Its a timed issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dittohead Servbot #24 Posted March 27, 2010 Author Share Posted March 27, 2010 Well, now that we all know how to get to the room, does anyone know what happened to Mr. Houlihan himself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaWarrior Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Is this the guy?? http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/trinity_news/100208_HoulihanReview.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Is this the guy?? http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/trinity_news/100208_HoulihanReview.htm Too young. From what I've read, the Nintendo Power contest was held in 1990, and the person you linked to was twenty years old in 2008. So, unless he somehow entered and won the contest when he was one or two years old, it's probably not the same guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaWarrior Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Aww nuts, Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev. Rob Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 He died in a car accident. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyromaniac605 Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 He died in a car accident. Really? -Darren- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShinSegata Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 On 3/29/2010 at 8:56 AM, Pyromaniac605 said: Really? -Darren- On 3/29/2010 at 8:56 AM, Pyromaniac605 said: Really? -Darren- No this video will explain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Black_Tiger Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 On 3/10/2010 at 6:32 PM, tz101 said: Here's a youtube clip of how to find the Chris Houlihan room: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXp124VgFrw I stumbled upon it a different way bitd, but wrote down everything I did leading to it to try to recreate it... but was never successful. I also jumped down a (different) hole to find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaperman Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 (edited) The stardom went to his head, sending him down a spiral of goofballs and hooch, waking up on stained bare mattresses in back alleys with no memory of how he got there. One day after a pill-induced religious vision, he finally had enough, and joined the French Foreign Legion under an assumed name, which is clearly why we don't know exactly what happened to him after that. Maybe his helicopter crashed over the rainforests of Afghanistan, or maybe he's now a proud French citizen named Jacques Fauxnom. We may never know. Edited April 14, 2021 by Reaperman 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomaios Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 (edited) On 4/12/2021 at 10:43 AM, ShinSegata said: No this video will explain. Ha. That video takes a screenshot of this very thread. Edited April 17, 2021 by Rhomaios Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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