EarthBound

Unlike in more recent Mario RPGs (or even a game like EarthBound), you will not get any kind of advantage by jumping onto an enemy or attacking them from a different angle like the back or sides (sadly). Since you can see the enemies, ...

 UK - When Super Mario RPG comes out, all those cries for the game would be replaced with cries for EarthBound and Chrono Trigger. Always hear a lot about Ys Book ... USA WiiWare Update: Helix WiiWare World USA VC Releases: Ys Book I & II and Samurai Shodown Virtual Console reviews

EarthBound: King of the cult classics Was this Super Nintendo RPG really so good I named myself after it? Oh yes, yes indeed. Earthbound’s solid fundamentals, unique setting and bizarre sense of humor have kept it fresh a decade later, ...

By Brad Nicholson Now only if Nintendo would release EarthBound like a good little boy, I would be all set. Even though Super Mario RPG is only out in PAL territories right now, we can probably expect a proper release in the states soon. ...

 NY - Nintendo's own entry into the crowded "Let's jump on the Dragon Quest gravy train" market. Mother, whose sequel would be localized as EarthBound, ...

By RawmeatCowboy We will be asking everyone watching the marathon to call Nintendo of America. Our request to them will be to please port over Mother 3 to North America, bring EarthBound to the Virtual Console, or even ask about a potential Mother 1+2+3 ...

 CA - The wrestling games were off the hook, but I was a big RPG fan, too, and there were no RPGs on the N64. The only one they had planned for it was Earthbound ...

By MattG It's been a little while since I dragged the Super NES RPG Earthbound into the spotlight, so it seems like a good time to direct you to an exhaustive list of game elements that were altered or removed when the original Japanese version of the game (Mother 2, as I'm sure you recall) crossed the...

 Germany - Jul 29, 2008 He joined Nintendo in the early 1980s and was part of the team that developed games like "EarthBound" and the "Kirby" series. Iwata: We understand that ...

By MattG The Mother 3 translation project continues to roll along and now the team behind bringing the sequel to Earthbound into English needs some creative input.  One of the neat things about Earthbound are the crazy names assigned to enemies.  Who can forget Gruff Goat or the Chomposaur?  Mothe...

 Australia - Characters such as Ike from Fire Emblem, Meta Knight from Kirby, Fox McCloud from Star Fox, Lucas from the unreleased-in-the-US Mother 3 (Earthbound 2), ...

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By Griffin McElroy At the end of last month's issue of Nintendo Power, the editors promised a huge reveal in the magazine's following issue, teasing those anxiously awaiting Wii-exclusive installments in the Earthbound and Kingdom Hearts franchises. ...

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These are custom reserved for the etsy user, kmmayer - please do not purchase unless you are this Etsy user! If you are interested in a similar set, please send me a message! Thanks! :) ***************** Here are five (5) different fridge magnets from the Earthbound / Mother video game ser...

 Virginia - I wrote this because I’ve recently imported Mother 3, the sequel to the classic Super Nintendo title Earthbound, and have been enjoying it immensely with ...

Here are five (5) different fridge magnets from the Earthbound / Mother video game series for the Nintendo. They are all fully needlepoint by hand, they are rectangle in shape and measure 2" by 1 1/2". There are five characters from the game - the heroes Ness, Paula, Jeff and Poo, as well as Mr. S...

 Virginia - Where is Earthbound? Super Mario RPG has been teased, but we’ve seen nothing. What about the original Contra, or Jackal? Why is it that Nintendo, ...

Reader's Most Wanted. 1. Earthbound (Super NES). 2. Mother (NES/Japan Only). 3. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Super NES). 4. Chrono Trigger (Super NES). 5. Super Smash Bros. (N64). NP Staff's Most Wanted ...

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 UK - less well-known heroes like Ness from Earthbound and Marth from Fire Emblem as well as forgotten vintage Nintendo stars such as Pit of Kid Icarus fame. ...

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 NY - You could avoid fights, but they were quick if you didnt, and combos made em fun...again, most fun i had with a J-RPG this side of Earthbound in its day. ...

By RawmeatCowboy 1) Earthbound 2) Mother 3) Mario RPG 4) Chrono Trigger 5) Smash Bros 64. Staff. 1) Castlevania: Rondo of Blood 2) Mega Man: The Wily Wars 3) Terranigma 4) Mario All-Stars 5) Super Punch-Out ...

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By Eric Caoili Nintendo Power's preview page for the next issue brandishes the above image and a quick prank on Earthbound fans (as if they needed more teasing): "We'll kick off the next 20 years of Nintendo Power with more big reveals, ...

 UK - I rarely advocate piracy, but I urge you to seek out an emulator and ROM of Earthbound for the SNES (Piracy is wrong, Chris – gamezine lawyers). ...

By blueskycomic Earthbound (Super Nintendo): This game got me into RPGs. The first RPG I ever played was Zelda for the SNES, but Earthbound was the ONE that really made me fall in love with the genre. It was so quirky and different, both in story and ...

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By Matthew Corgan Third strongest bat in Earthbound but statistically the Guts more than make up for it. Making it the most well rounded Weapon in the game for Ness. In Game Gutsy Bat Stats (Earthbound) Attack: +100 Guts: +127 Accuracy: 100% ...

 NY - Ill eat my fucking hat if we get a new Earthbound/Mother that this gen so desperately needs. Mother 3 or a hard drive or I'm out. im counting on animal ...

By MattG Last call for guesses about Nintendo Power's mysterious moon riddle, gang.  So, what's it going to be?  Earthbound?  The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask?  Harvest Moon?  Golden Sun?  Nope, sorry, all wrong, the answer is Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, but thanks for playing!

By Chris Greenhough That's right: the meaning of the much-discussed moon that featured prominently in Nintendo Power had nothing to do with Disgaea, Metroid, Earthbound, or a ... Balance Board-compatible sequel to Michael Jackson's Moonwalker? ...

By MattG This article is all about games that made their mark on American soil, but were obviously too good for us lowly Euros. The state of the industry is much better nowadays (Rock Band’s price and everything Nintendo of Europe does ever not included), but once upon a time, we never saw these ten im...

By JC Fletcher Members of the Mother series fan site Starmen.net may be celebrating now, with Earthbound recently rated on the ESRB's web site, but just getting to that tenuous victory (as Ys I & II can affirm, ESRB rating is not the same as a Virtual ...

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By MattG The webmaster also revealed that Starmen made official attempts to license Mother 3 for release in North America, in a partnership with a small development and publishing studio. They later sent out exploratory emails to Nintendo of America, which were swiftly and decisively answered...

Earlier this month, a major victory was scored for the fans of Earthbound. The SNES classic is finally coming to the Virtual Console. Confirmation didn't come from Nintendo, but from some ESRB hunting. This find was probably one of the greatest days that the team at Starmen.net ...

Squaresoft was the king of roleplaying games on Super Nintendo but one of the best RPG's of that era didn't have their fingerprints - Earthbound. In a long expected move, it looks like it's making its way to Virtual Console.

By JC Fletcher Even though we're all tired from freaking out about Shigesato Itoi's sci-fi RPG, a bunch of awesome game ratings that would normally cause us to freak out have as yet gone un-freaked-out-about, on both Virtual Console and WiiWare. ...

Earthbound Invading Nintendo Wii VC?  NC - Earthbound is easily one of the best RPGs for the Super Nintendo, with a zany storyline, wacky characters, and unique personality that makes it a vastly ...

Earthbound rated by ESRB  PA - Good news for everyone that's a fan of the Virtual Console, the ESRB has rated the classic Super NES RPG Earthbound (it received an E For Everyone rating). ...

By Jonathan Naturally, this probably means the beloved RPG should be hitting the Virtual Console sometime in the near future. That’s awesome and all, but where’s its sequel, Mother 3? Or for that matter, where’s its next-gen version? ...

GAME OVER ‘Earthbound’ is the title gamers forgot  MO - The first way “Earthbound” changed the way I thought of RPGs was in its presentation and setting. During the heyday of the SNES, almost every RPG that ...

By rbelmont Fans of Earthbound have been trying to get the rest of the series to come overseas since Earthbound 64 was announced. Unfortunately, they haven’t been successful. Mother 1 + 2 and Mother 3 (both on GBA) are still only available in Japan ...

By MattG Let us commemorate the release of Mother 3 for the Game Boy Advance in Japan, for it was two years ago today that the sequel to Earthbound became available in a language a lot of the series's fans cannot read.  Die-hard Earthbound enthusiasts are still hard at work on translating the game int...

By Mitch Regardless, it’sa well-known fact in the Earthbound fandom that Giygas, the final boss of Earthbound, was inspired by childhood trauma that Itoi suffered as a kid. As he retells it, he’d accidentally wandered into a movie meant for ...

By Alexander Sliwinski Straightgamer.net -- OH NO! The boys over at GayGamer.net went to "therapy" and are now devout heterosexuals. Now all they can talk about is boobs, beer and babes. That's so not fierce!Lego Halo -- 1Up reposted EGM's April issue gag for the internets.Wii Want More -- A Wii downloadable content...

By RawmeatCowboy As promised, our list of April Fools’ Day coverage. If you have anymore links you would like to see added in this post, shoot me an email. IGN’s Legend of Zelda movie trailer Nintendo 64 games coming to DS Super Pii Pii Bros. Double Bass controller Super Smash Bros. Brawl movie Kid Icarus announc...

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Review: Super Smash Bros. Brawl  - Mar 31, 2008 and some pretty much the same exact character but with a different outfit, such as Lucas and Ness from Earthbound. Seriously, these two guys have no ...

This is a set of four (4) Earthbound coasters made from Perler beads. These are characters from the epic game for the Super Nintendo (also known as Mother in Japan). The coasters feature two characters that you play as (Ness and Poo) and two characters you meet along the way (Mr. Saturn and Tend...

By MattG I may not enjoy RPGs much as I as do, say, platformer games or action/adventure epics, but I consider myself a fan of the genre.  At least, I did until I read Gamasutra's latest feature article in which Kurt Kalata lays out the twenty most essential RPGs from Japan.  I started reading with enth...

By MattG As time goes by I'm starting to see that Earthbound is a dead franchise in North America, but I still can't figure out why Nintendo seems to be trying to erase it from existence.  The "Masterpieces" demo of Earthbound has been removed from the localized version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and,...

By klahadesanges@yahoo.com Giygas has become a very adult threat but seen through the minds of children. I have evolved him a lot more in the novel, as he has come to represent evil across the course of human history. He is not very identifiable as far as a physical being, but rather shape-shifts (yes, there is some influe...

By klahadesanges@yahoo.com I'm about to get my cartridge of Earthbound back from a friend, it's been almost a year since I played it! Here's a video I found of some guy reenacting things from earthbound.... this is probably the funniest one. Does anyone remember what you get from the Sanchez brothers when you get three in a r...

By Mitch But, being a former member of the Earthbound community at large, I can tell you first hand that the radio silence from Nintendo of America regarding Mother 3’s English release date wasn’t accepted with stride. Immediately, the Mother3.org project cropped up to take on the Herculean trans...

It’s simple: if you’re into Japanese RPG’s like the early Final Fantasy series, Zelda, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger and similar titles (there are a LOT of them), your best (and, in most of the cases, only) bet is SNES emulation to be able to play these titles.