April 19th, 2010 | EarthBound, Images, Uncommon Knowledge | 47 Comments

Not too long ago we discovered thanks to Jesse that the EarthBound box was probably originally meant to remain the small size and feature a very different front cover. For more info on that, see here. Anyway, Jesse and some other folks since discovered this old Electronics Boutique advertisement. I don’t have a date on it, so it’s hard to tell when they made the switch from this box t...Read More »

April 18th, 2010 | Weekly Round-Up | 15 Comments

Gonna make this round-up especially brief this week, but it’s got some good stuff! Return of the MOTHER Comic Series Good ol’ kenisu once worked on a really good and detailed comic series about the often-neglected MOTHER 1 / EarthBound Zero. After a lengthy break, the series is finally underway again! If you haven’t seen it before, you’re missing out. See here! Return of t...Read More »

April 17th, 2010 | Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 14 Comments

The guys at Tiny Cartridge covered this recently (see here), but I thought I’d briefly touch on it here too. Shigesato Itoi’s company will be releasing a DSi ware app next week intended to help users keep track of their health. Itoi started posting some discussion about it here yesterday and will be posting the rest of the parts of the discussion over the next few days, like he does wi...Read More »

April 16th, 2010 | Images | 18 Comments

A few months ago we looked at a pretty big EarthBound reference in an anime show (see here), complete with a truly bizarre Mr. Saturn character. Then Kelsey sent this in yesterday. I’m not sure if it’s a Mr. Saturn-inspired thing or not, but I thought I’d pass it on anyway: In the new season of the aime K-on!! I have noticed little Mr. Saturn like key-chains. I noticed it in the ...Read More »

April 15th, 2010 | Events | 13 Comments

So, you know that giant Mr. Saturn event that was held in Japan a week or two ago? Luckily for us, the wonderful Chewy attended it and has written up a ton of details about it, more than I’ve seen on any Japanese sites in fact! We foreign fans are insane in the brain Anyway, check out her big write-up here, and pretend you were there too! Besides the interesting story, she also talks abou...Read More »

April 14th, 2010 | EarthBound, Images, Uncommon Knowledge | 17 Comments

Shigeru Miyamoto once made a statement about EarthBound: We had high hopes for Earthbound, the Super NES version, in the US, but it didn’t do well. We even did a TV commercial, thinking, “Hey… this thing could sell three million copies!” But it didn’t. The weird thing is, if they did make a commercial, they must have decided not to air it. I always wondered what the deal with tha...Read More »

April 14th, 2010 | EarthBound, Images, Merchandise | 24 Comments

A little while back I posted about some EarthBound photo slides meant for magazines and other such stuff. They’re pretty rare, and those two were the only ones we knew of. But then earlier today Jesse sent this in: Just won some earthbound slides that I don’t think have ever been found. Feel free to post in the news section! And here are the slides in question: click to enlarge That&...Read More »

April 13th, 2010 | EarthBound 64, Images, Uncommon Knowledge | 35 Comments

Ten years ago (dang, ten already?) I was studying in Japan. As an EarthBound fan, it was exciting that there was a whole lot of MOTHER series stuff to be had, though it turned out I didn’t have the money for most of it. Anyway, sometimes I would write articles for Starmen.Net about my experiences. Here’s the one about where I reserved the Nintendo 64 version of MOTHER 3 the day they st...Read More »

April 12th, 2010 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge | 34 Comments

I might’ve talked about this before, but I can’t tell if I’ve ever made a proper post about it. Anyway, the EarthBound Box is known for its unusual size, but if you look closer, you might see that some of the screenshots on the back aren’t quite right: click for larger version It looks like they used the debug menu to take these screenshots, using an early version of the g...Read More »

April 11th, 2010 | Weekly Round-Up | 22 Comments

The last few weeks have been busy and tiring, so I’ve been neglecting a few things at the site, particularly these weekly round-ups. I think I’ll stop with the numbering system since it’s hard to keep track when you skip a few weeks Anyway, let’s get down to it, here’s what EarthBound stuff happened in the past week elsewhere on the web. Community News The HyperBou...Read More »