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October 6th, 2010 | Itoi, MOTHER 3
Shigesato Itoi’s site is immensely popular in Japan, and each day he posts a very short snippet of random thoughts or what he’s up to lately (see here). Today, at the very end of his daily post, he briefly added this:
I’m going to Kichijoji today and tomorrow. I used to do all-day and all-night work retreats there when I worked on a game called MOTHER 3. I remember it being tough, but I also have fond memories about it when I look back. Sniff. …I wonder what I’ll eat there.
Like he mentions, Kichijoji is where Itoi and people from Brownie Brown would often rent a hotel for a few nights in a row and hole up to work on the game like crazy. Kichijoji is where Brownie Brown’s office is, and Brownie Brown is the company that developed MOTHER 3. His message is pretty short and sparse on details, almost reminiscent of the posts he used to make years ago.
The “I wonder what I’ll eat there” has to do with the fact that while working on MOTHER 3 at Kichijoji, he discovered “croquette rolls”, which he liked so much he put them into the game in many places. You can read more about that here.
Anyway, although I get the feeling that this has little or nothing to do with any new MOTHER stuff, I’m still curious. At the very least, it’s neat to see Itoi mentioning MOTHER-related stuff in his posts every once in a while!
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11 Comments to Itoi’s Blog, October 7, 2010
 | Mato said on Oct. 6, 2010 |
rofl, it’d be funny to play an entire game with a translation like that.
 | Anonymous said on Oct. 6, 2010 |
Haha, I wonder if there is a team out there who google-translates foreign games for the lulz.
Itoi always sounds like the busiest guy to me; mining for gold, copywriting, making video games… that’d be so much fun!
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| Onion said on Oct. 7, 2010 |
Le sigh.
So what’s Itoi doing there? Is there something else cool he might be visiting while he’s out there?
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| Anonymous said on Oct. 7, 2010 |
It’s just nice to see that Itoi has good memories with MOTHER related things, that it’s still a part of his life in some way.
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| Soulier said on Oct. 7, 2010 |
Awesome! Deva Deva Cafe is in Kichijoji! (Vegetarian restaurant) I love that place. I wonder if Itoi ever ate there.
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| Blitzer said on Oct. 7, 2010 |
Huh this reminds me of the room in the middle in the New Yado Inn.
Where they someone was discussing about a “game”? 
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| Mr. Anon said on Oct. 7, 2010 |
It’s sad that he kinda ignores his games. This kind of almost indirect mention is not enough. Sakurai for example has entire blogs for Super Smash Bros, yet Itoi barely even acknowledges his game’s existance.
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| Joe said on Oct. 7, 2010 |
I wouldn’t say that he ignores his games. He finished his MOTHER series, and said that he has no plans for a 4th one(at least for the moment!). I wouldn’t see him needing to mention anything MOTHER-related every week. When you do see it, though, it almost feels nostalgic.
Plus, Itoi is a very busy person. He owns a company that sells other products. Like any other businessman, he travels a lot, as well.
Sakurai owns a company as well, but it’s a video game company. I assume that’s why he would have more blogs regarding video games and such, rather than the random fun ones Itoi makes.
As Mato said, Itoi’s blog feels like one that more readers would get into more in general, rather than Sakurai’s, which targets certain people, i.e. gamers.
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| Mr. Anon said on Oct. 8, 2010 |
Surely he would at least have official sites for his games though? To my knowledge the Earthbound series is the only video game series he’s created (although I’ve heard he’s worked on others). I guess you’re right though, that he’s a busy man. It’s too bad we haven’t contacted him in over 2 years.
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| Onion said on Oct. 8, 2010 |
I think he’s done a couple fishing games and a kind of health tracking app for DSi.
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Funny, Google Translator told me it said this:
Kitizyouzi, I go, today and tomorrow.
MOTHER3] [Game of the finishing work,
I had to make camp here.
Such painful, like dear, I’ll sob.
I eat what I ‥ ‥.
I think that you’re wrong, Mato. Google is clearly correct in its translation.