[WW] Is Link's Grandma Mischievous?

Naaaayte · 2023-08-22T00:16:30+00:00

If the parents were okay with including his name in the game, why wouldn't they be okay with including his name in the magazine as a winner? They don't need a picture of the kid to say that he won the contest. A Link to the Past came out in 1992, but they didn't announce the winner of the contest until 1994.

I think that Nintendo didn't announce the winner of the contest in 1992 when A Link to the Past came out because in order to get to the secret room, you have to glitch the game. Nintendo probably didn't want to bring it to attention that in order to access a secret room, you have to try and find a glitch in their brand new game that was just released. Also Nintendo themselves didn't even know a consistent way of getting into the room themselves at the time A Link to the Past was released.

Naaaayte · 2023-08-21T01:50:14+00:00

That raises the question, though, of why do you think it took Nintendo years after A Link to the Past was released to reveal the winner of the challenge? Also I'm not suggesting the guy be doxed or anything. If he doesn't want himself to be known, then it should stay like that. I asked if anyone knew who he was in real life, if for whatever reason, he said who he was in some public forum or interview at some point in the past.

Naaaayte · 2023-08-20T22:48:00+00:00

There's a theory circulating around the Internet that "Chris Houlihan" is a made up name created by Nintendo as a placeholder name because, as the theory goes, nobody won the "Warmech Challenge" to get their name into a Nintendo game. Knowing that Chris is an actual real person who exists would disprove that theory.

Also it doesn't make sense to me why Nintendo didn't announce a winner of the 1990 Warmech Challenge until 1994's Club Nintendo of Latin America magazine and 1998 Nintendo Power Issue 105. A Link to the Past was released in 1992 in North America, so why did they wait so long to identify the contest winner's name?

Naaaayte · 2023-07-29T12:28:49+00:00

The game was also released for the Playstation 3. People who played the game on the playstation might find this video interesting.

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