The theme from Kakariko Village is inspired by the music from Kiki's Delivery Service.
The eye sentry atop of doors and walls in Turtle Rock are the same ones that guard the crypt near the end of the Nausicaa comic.
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 wasn't 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:Load a game, and start the game in the Sanctuary. Immediately run out of the building, and keep running south until you're out of the Sanctuary's garden. Run west and turn south on the next screen as soon as you can. Navigate through the heavily-wooded area and head east. Once you're at Hyrule Castle, run south and then east, past the front of the castle gates. When you approach a wall, head north, and run into the bush covering the hole leading down to the dungeon, the one you entered at the beginning of the game. With luck, you will fall into the Chris Houlihan room instead of the dungeon.
The Chris Houlihan room was created for a winner of a Nintendo Power contest, but he was never told which game his name would appear in.
Zelda:
May the way of the hero lead to the Triforce.
Treeman:
But what a foolish thing to leave lying around... the golden power... the Triforce!
Follows
The Hyrule fantasy: Zeruda no densetsu (1986) (VG)
The Legend of Zelda 2: Rinku no bôken (1987) (VG)
Followed by
Zeruda no densetsu: Yume o miru shima (1993) (VG)
Zeruda no densetsu: Toki no okarina (1998) (VG)
Zeruda no densetsu: Yume o miru shima DX (1998) (VG)
Zeruda no densetsu: Mujura no kamen (2000) (VG)
Zeruda no densetsu: Fushigi no ki no mi - Daichi no shô (2001) (VG)
Zeruda no densetsu: Fushigi no ki no mi - Jikû no shô (2001) (VG)
Zeruda no densetsu: Kaze no takuto (2002) (VG)
Zeruda no densetsu: 4 tsu no tsurugi + (2004) (VG)
Zeruda no densetsu: Fushigi no bôshi (2004) (VG)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006) (VG)
References
Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)
- Same logos appear during the game as in the film.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988) (VG)
Referenced in
Bed of Roses (1996)
Dai-Rantô Smash Brothers Deluxe (2001) (VG)
Homestarrunner.com: Everything Else, Volume 2 (2006) (V)
- In "The House That Gave Sucky Treats", the unlock sound heard when you unlock Homsar is the exact same one as when you unlock something in the Zelda series; the sound in particular comes from "A Link To the Past"
Spoofed in
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (1998) (VG)