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Itoi Interview Before MOTHER’s Release

May 2nd, 2011 | Interviews, Itoi, MOTHER 1, Uncommon Knowledge | 10 Comments

I’m a little late to the party, but some weeks back Chewy posted her translation of an interview Shigesato Itoi did months before MOTHER 1′s release in 1989. Check it out here! Here’s a random snippet: Plans for MOTHER first took shape two years ago, but at that time all I was thinking about was whether I’d be able to have someone make a game for me. I called up a friend and a...Read More »

The EarthBound Fandom’s History

April 9th, 2011 | EarthBound, Interviews, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 9 Comments

Recently, Roo (the cool dude who made that EarthBound documentary and currently owns an EarthBound Zero prototype) met up with Reid, the co-founder of Starmen.Net and the guy behind Fangamer to talk about EarthBound, the EarthBound community, and all sorts of stuff. Some of the topics include: Nintendo Power’s coverage of EarthBound and buying EarthBound on release day How Starmen.Net came...Read More »

Shigesato Itoi Discusses MOTHER 4

April 3rd, 2011 | Interviews, Itoi, MOTHER 4, Uncommon Knowledge | 74 Comments

I’ve gone through that discussion between Itoi and Iwata that was in the BRUTUS magazine the other day. Here’s a rough translation of it, as usual it’s sometimes kind of hard to pin Itoi’s thoughts down into something that makes sense, but it should get his basic ideas across. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7 9:00 PM A Discussion with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata at Nintendo Headq...Read More »

Itoi & Iwata to Discuss MOTHER 4

March 30th, 2011 | Interviews, Itoi, MOTHER 4 | 53 Comments

Yesterday/today a page was posted on Itoi’s site (see here) saying that the upcoming issue of “BRUTUS” magazine will include a four page discussion between him and Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, the theme being MOTHER 4. The page on Itoi’s site (which was written by the guy who came up with the article idea, not Itoi himself) says, “Just to be completely clear up f...Read More »

EarthBound 64 Enemy Designer Interview

January 20th, 2011 | EarthBound 64, Interviews | 20 Comments

Last year, we happened to find EarthBound 64′s enemy designer on Twitter, Toshinao Aoki. Chewy was kind enough to contact him about answering some interview questions so we could get some more insight about the game. I also put up a post asking for question suggestions from fans here, though the majority of the suggestions were questions that the mere enemy designer wouldn’t be able to...Read More »

Interview with a MOTHER 3 Debugger

December 23rd, 2010 | EarthBound 64, Interviews, MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 24 Comments

Some years ago, maybe a few months after MOTHER 3 was released in Japan, a fellow by the name of Brendan Sechter approached me and Reid about working together to get a license to translate and sell MOTHER 3 in English. It was kind of cool, because he had actually helped out with the game’s development in a small fashion – he’s even listed in the credits! Sadly, that plan fizzled ...Read More »

EarthBound Fan Games in NGamer

December 3rd, 2010 | EarthBound, Fan Games, Interviews | 28 Comments

EarthBound/MOTHER fan games Saturn Valley Online and Mother 4 were recently featured in NGamer magazine, in an article about fan-made games: Thanks to the many people who sent in news about this ...Read More »

Itoi Interviews Miyamoto

September 25th, 2010 | Interviews, Itoi | 24 Comments

It’s been the talk of Mario and EarthBound fans for the past couple weeks – Shigesato Itoi interviewed Shigeru Miyamoto about Super Mario Bros. stuff, with the series’ anniversary happening and all. Normally Nintendo President Iwata does the interviewing, but this time the interviewer role went to Itoi. A lot of people have asked why Itoi would do this, but this is actually one ...Read More »

Louis Philippe and Flying Man

July 9th, 2010 | Audio Stuff, Interviews, MOTHER 1 | 20 Comments

Many years ago, some folks got in touch with Louis Philippe, a musician who helped with some of the music for the MOTHER 1 soundtrack CD, most notably the Flying Man song. But the stuff he talked about was lost to the darkness of the old Internet, until Chas recently brought them back and put the info into article form: Video Games are Beautiful: Flying Man (MOTHER OST) This was something I alway...Read More »

Let’s Come Up with EB64 Questions!

May 15th, 2010 | EarthBound 64, Interviews | 128 Comments

Part 2 of this! Awesomely awesome Chewy managed to get ahold of the EarthBound 64 staff member, but she’s not sure what to ask him now. So let’s come up with some questions! Remember, the guy only did the monster designs for EarthBound 64, and even that was a long time ago, so it’s best to keep questions in that area. Quick disclaimer: there’s still a chance he might not wa...Read More »