February 5th, 2010 | EarthBound, Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 5 Comments

I covered this topic before in this update debunking a myth about the “demon baby” story in EarthBound, but fellow EarthBound fan and translator Chewy recently posted an article giving some more info about the subject and the book “Let’s Meet in a Dream”. Check out her article here! ...Read More »

January 30th, 2010 | EarthBound, Itoi, MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 46 Comments

I often see a lot of misconceptions and false info about EarthBound-related stuff going around, so from time to time I think I’ll cover a few of them. Giygas There’s a lot of incorrect info out there about Giygas, much of it stemming from part of an interview with Shigesato Itoi (see here). In it, Itoi uses similes to explain his inspiration for Giygas, but Western fans seem to take th...Read More »

January 25th, 2010 | Food, Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 21 Comments

This isn’t very well-known outside of Japan, but one day, while on a fishing trip, Shigesato Itoi visited a small curry shop near Mt. Fuji and was wowed by the curry they had there. His praise made the curry famous across the country, and thus “Itoriki Curry” was born, and an entire business built up around it apparently. Apparently this Itoriki Curry uses Japanese saké to get...Read More »

January 15th, 2010 | EarthBound, Itoi, MOTHER 1, Uncommon Knowledge | 18 Comments

It’s no secret that when Shigesato Itoi created the games in the MOTHER series, he used ideas inspired by all sorts of books, movies, music, and whatnot that he liked. I’ve listed a few of these inspirations before (I really should make a page that lists them all), but here’s a look at two more. The other day PK Coffee posted on the Starmen.Net forums, asking about “The Sir...Read More »

January 1st, 2010 | EarthBound, EarthBound 64, Itoi, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 1+2, MOTHER 3, MOTHER 4, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 46 Comments

Joey D. sent this in yesterday, and it is mighty awesome! I produce an online review show that tackles the hidden classics of the 16-bit era. And since EarthBound is one of my favorite games (isn’t it for us all), I knew that my episode for that would have to be rather epic. I’ve passed it around on the Starmen.Net forums and xfisjmg1 thought I should drop you a line about it. I wound ...Read More »

December 15th, 2009 | Audio Stuff, Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 40 Comments

About a year or two ago, Itoi’s company set up an online music shop on his site. It was well-crafted and made to resemble a shop a lot like you might find in MOTHER 3; Itoi even went so far as to hire one of the Brownie Brown artists who worked on MOTHER 3 to do art for the music site. The shop primarily sells jazz music, and you can check it out here. It’s pretty nice, and if you loo...Read More »

November 23rd, 2009 | EarthBound, Images, Itoi | 15 Comments

Yesterday Itoi’s site/company held a small event about IT stuff and broadcasted it online. While waiting for things to get set up, he would write little messages to show the webcam. One of the messages included one of his signature weird-looking Mr. Saturn sketches: Mr. Saturn is saying “Just a moment please”, written partly in kanji. Mr. Saturns aren’t supposed to know ka...Read More »

November 21st, 2009 | Interviews, Itoi, MOTHER 4 | 65 Comments

While scouring Japanese Google for stuff, I came across a recent interview on Shigesato Itoi’s site that included some MOTHER-related discussion. This is dated July 22, 2009. This was actually Itoi interviewing someone else, which is one of the main things he does at his site. Anyway, I’ve quickly translated the relevant page here: (more…) ...Read More »

November 10th, 2009 | Images, Itoi | 31 Comments

Today is Shigesato Itoi’s birthday! The esteemed creator of EarthBound is 61 this year. To commemorate the day, here are some more wacky/weird/interesting pics from his office: #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #g...Read More »

September 6th, 2009 | Images, Itoi | 8 Comments

Shigesato Itoi and Satoru Iwata are good friends, as one might expect since Iwata wound up saving MOTHER 2 from cancellation with his super programming skills. Even now that Iwata is president of Nintendo, they still hang out and chill together. Here’s a pic from Itoi’s photo blog where Iwata and his wife visited Itoi and his wife at Itoi’s second home in Kyoto: Since they’...Read More »

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