 The Chris Houlihan room is a secret room in A Link to the Past.  Chris Houlihan was an avid reader of and subscriber to Nintendo  Power magazine. Around the early 1990s, Nintendo Power held a  contest where the winner would be included in a secret room in this  game, and Chris Houlihan won the contest. Nintendo made it extremely  difficult to find, and it wasnt discovered for a long time; some  believe the room only appears in response to detection of software  errors. The Chris Houlihan room has a message on a tile on the wall,  and 45 blue rupees (225 rupees total). The Chris Houlihan tile was  removed in the Game Boy Advance version of the game, and the room  was renamed the Top Secret Room. However, the Top Secret Room is not  known to be accessible outside of emulation. There are a number of  known ways to reach the room through ordinary play. The Pegaus Boots  are the only item required for all of them. One popular way is this:  