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EarthBound not Museum-Bound

May 6th, 2011 | EarthBound, Events | 58 Comments

A while back I posted about how EarthBound was nominated to be in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (see here). The results of the public poll came in yesterday, and, as most people know by now, EarthBound wasn’t chosen. Oh well. You can see the full list of all the selected games for each category here. ...Read More »

MOTHER 1+2 Translation Preview

April 2nd, 2011 | Events, MOTHER 1+2, Videos | 35 Comments

Last night the Starmen.Net/Fangamer guys kicked off a MOTHER 1 Fanfest (site here). A little bit before it started, Reid was like, “Hey, is your translation far along enough that we could play it for everyone watching?” So I sent him the current beta build of the translation patch. He and his cohorts played through from the start of the game all the way to saving Pippi, so if you want...Read More »

EB Charity Auction Raises $10,000+

November 27th, 2010 | Auctions, EarthBound, Events | 17 Comments

Remember that EarthBound charity auction? It took place yesterday, and wound up raising $10,146 for Parkinson’s research You can read more about it here: EarthBound Fans Raise $10,146 for Parkinson’s Research ...Read More »

EarthBound + Video Games Awesome Tonight

November 10th, 2010 | EarthBound, Events | 10 Comments

I’m sure most of the people here already know about the EarthBound Fanfest that Starmen.Net/Fangamer is doing right now. Tonight’s live show will feature the Video Games AWESOME guys. I was a really big fan of Awesome Video Games, but I feel bad that I’m out of the loop because I don’t know what Video Games AWESOME is In any case, it’s sure to be awesome, so check ...Read More »

MOTHER 3 Fanfest

August 6th, 2010 | Events, MOTHER 3 | 21 Comments

Usually, Starmen.Net does a community playthrough of EarthBound every summer, but this summer they’re playing through MOTHER 3. It’s a combination of a community playthrough and an art/writing/music/etc. contest, and definitely worth checking out. I don’t think they have a site up for it just yet, but you can check out the M3 Fanfest site here. Even if you miss each day’s ...Read More »

EarthBound Playthrough Tomorrow

June 16th, 2010 | EarthBound, Events | 42 Comments

In commemoration of EarthBound’s 15th anniversary (which was earlier this month), regular visitors neonix and LucasTizma have an online playthrough planned, and it starts tomorrow. What: 5492 Days Later – The EarthBound Playthrough Who: Neonix and LucasTizma When: Thursday, June 17, beginning at 10 a.m. and ending at whenever-we-finish p.m. Where: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/5492-da...Read More »

EarthBound’s 15th Anniversary

June 5th, 2010 | EarthBound, Events | 77 Comments

EarthBound was released in North America on this day 15 years ago. It’s hard to believe it’s already been that long! I didn’t really have much time to put together anything really special, but I threw together a little page anyway. Check it out here: EarthBound’s 15th Anniversary Page Were you one of the few folks who bought the game around the time of its release? Or did ...Read More »

MOTHER Marathon for Charity

May 7th, 2010 | Events | 16 Comments

Remember TheSpeedGamers? If you don’t, they’re a group of gamers that plays through games for charity. Usually about once a year they’ll do a MOTHER series marathon for charity, and the latest one begins today, in just a few hours! If you’ve been around for a while, you might remember that last year they managed to raise over $10,000 This year they have some more stuff pl...Read More »

MOTHER 2 Novel Translation-athon!

April 28th, 2010 | EarthBound, Events | 19 Comments

Super EarthBound fan Chewy recently e-mailed me about her translating the MOTHER 2 novel during Golden Week in Japan. Here’s what she says: As some of you know, this week is Golden Week in Japan. The entire country puts down its tools and enters what is basically a week-long national holiday. What this means is that I can’t fly home to America for anything less than $2,500, and that any t...Read More »

Giant Mr. Saturn Event in Detail

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 »