Bijna elke grote videogame die er ooit is verschenen heeft wel een easter egg, dit is vaak een verborgen boodschap of een inside grapje van de programmeurs. Zo had je in GTA IV een groot hart aan ketting in het vrijheidsbeeld, een Xbox met de RROD in Bioshock. Maar sommige easter eggs zijn zo goed verstopt en geheim gehouden dat mensen er pas na jaren achter komen. De website Cracked.com heeft vandaag een lijst gemaakt met negen games, waar deze easter egs pas na jaren of een tip werden gevonden.

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Chris Houlihan Room (A Link to the Past, Super Nintendo)

In 1991, a guy named Chris Houlihan won a Nintendo Power competition to have his name included in an official Nintendo game, the absolute closest Nintendo Power could get to bringing someone to orgasm. That might sound like good fun if you were born in the 90s, if you didn't know that Nintendo of America's localization team hates fun. That's why we've got 40 different DS games ending in "Z" but it takes two years to convert one Professor Layton.

But the NoA Grinch-based debugging team removed the entrance to Chris' room in the North American version. Fun fact: Chris' room only appears in the North American version.

So one team put it in, and their neighbors took it right back out. The two teams continued to put it in and out like it was a video game programming orgy, except passive-aggressive and aimed at making a child cry. So basically, exactly like what a video game programmer orgy would be like. Most entrance methods require insane combinations of explosions, superspeed and sudden falls. But it was all worth it, to find ... this.




Well it at least would have been worth it to Houlihan if anyone had been able to find the damn thing. The room was basically unknown until the invention of the Internet, and it only became widely known around the year 2002--thereby turning the most awesome kid's present ever into a level of psychological horror unknown outside of an asylum for Japanese special effects. Instead of being the coolest kid ever in 1991, when people were playing the game, Chris Houlihan now knows that his child self is being pondered by the dark soul of the Internet.