November 7th, 2011 | EarthBound 64, Interviews, Itoi | 5 Comments

Once again the flood of Itoi interview translation continues as Chewy blasts through her NaNoTraMo stuff! This time we’re treated to an interview in the January 31, 1997 issue of Famitsu. In it, Shigesato Itoi and Satoru Iwata discuss stuff from the ill-fated Nintendo 64 version of MOTHER 3. Here’s an excerpt: Nagata Moving on, what’s the deal with the battles that Itoi’s always ra...Read More »

November 5th, 2011 | Interviews, Itoi, MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 3 Comments

It sounds like Chewy’s on a Japanese magazine article translation binge, so here’s another big Shigesato Itoi interview, this time from the November 1996 issue of 64Dream. The article discusses (among other things): Itoi’s aversion to assigning “themes” to video games Itoi’s original intent to make MOTHER 3 in 2-D The extent of completion of MOTHER 3 even by the fall of 1996 I...Read More »

November 4th, 2011 | EarthBound, Interviews, Itoi | 3 Comments

Translator extraordinaire and resident 1101 expert Chewy has translated an old Shigesato Itoi interview from 1994 – 17 years ago yesterday, in fact. This particular interview was in a magazine called Hippon Super!, which was a gaming magazine with a more mature twist than conventional gaming magazines at the time. That might be why this particular interview sounds so different from the rest...Read More »

September 4th, 2011 | Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 7 Comments

So by now most big-time EarthBound fans know that Shigesato Itoi, creator of the series, is a renaissance man who does pretty much everything. He’s even well-known here for having been on Iron Chef episodes, but he actually used to be on TV all the time. Apparently 1995-1996 saw a big “bass-fishing boom” in Japan, and since Itoi was really big into it at the time, he drew a lot ...Read More »

August 3rd, 2011 | Interviews, Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 11 Comments

In the latest thing of Iwata Asks, the script writer briefly mention that they consulted with Itoi a little bit when working on Star Fox 64′s text. Takano: Each character has his or her own role. For example, if you help Peppy the hare, he’ll give you hints here and there, so it works out to your advantage. But if you help Falco the falcon… Miyamoto: He’s like, “CanR...Read More »

July 20th, 2011 | Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 24 Comments

An old Japanese Game Boy game called “For the Frog the Bell Tolls” was recently fan-translated into English, which is cool, since I’ve seen people pick up and drop the project like crazy over the years. But at last it’s done, and you can check it out here. Why talk about this here, you ask? Well, apparently there’s a character you can talk to in the game that’s ...Read More »

July 19th, 2011 | EarthBound, Interviews, Itoi | 10 Comments

Shigesato Itoi’s main job nowadays is mostly just chatting with and interviewing all kinds of people, and today I stumbled across a recent multi-part discussion he had with an illustrator and book designer (Ayumi Ohashi), and at one point he briefly brings up some MOTHER stuff. (context: Ohashi is talking about working with different types of people and how different people will act differ...Read More »

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 »

April 8th, 2011 | Itoi, Videos | 39 Comments

During that live performance of MOTHER music the other day, Shigesato Itoi showed up and said a few words. He even mentioned Starmen.Net: What’s funny is that we had nothing to do with it at all – one, it was like four or five in the morning in America while this was going on, and two, we had no idea there was going to be a big list of names or anything happening – in fact, I...Read More »

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 »

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