August 31st, 2010 | EarthBound, Images, Merchandise | 25 Comments

The new MOTHER figures have started to come out, and coming soon will be the MOTHER 2 ones. Banpresto recently posted a press release thing that includes a pic of some of the as-of-yet-unreleased figures: You can grab a copy of the press release PDF here. It’s in Japanese and not especially interesting, but check it out if you’re a download maniac like me ...Read More »

August 30th, 2010 | EarthBound, Images, Merchandise | 16 Comments

A long while back I posted about the rare and mostly-unknown official Slot Bros. board game/dice game/card game, but at the time no one at the site had ever owned a copy, so the details were very sketchy. Then, many months ago, the ever-awesome neonix won one and scanned it all at very good quality for the rest of us to see! I sat on the update for a while because I wanted to translate the rules&...Read More »

August 27th, 2010 | Images, MOTHER 1, Merchandise | 41 Comments

If you don’t remember, a whoooole bunch of MOTHER and MOTHER 2 figures are planned to be released in Japan slowly over the next seven months. They’re only available via those crane games in Japanese arcades, though. For more details about that, see my old news post here. Anyway, the first batch of figures, the MOTHER 1 figures, were scheduled to be released in the late August – a...Read More »

August 11th, 2010 | Auctions, EarthBound, Merchandise | 19 Comments

Just a small swag update today. First, you might remember a while back when someone was trying to sell a copy of EarthBound for $6000. I don’t know if that one ever sold, but the same seller listed one for a similar insane price shortly after, and I watched the price on it fall bit by bit every month or so. Until yesterday, when someone bought a copy of EarthBound for $2000 That’s p...Read More »

August 9th, 2010 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Merchandise | 20 Comments

A little while back I posted about a new CD coming out that features a lot of Keiichi Suzuki’s movie and game music. This CD includes some MOTHER series music too, including a new version of Smiles & Tears. If you don’t remember what Smiles & Tears is, it’s the song that plays at the end of EarthBound, during the staff credits. Shigesato Itoi actually wrote lyrics for t...Read More »

August 5th, 2010 | EarthBound, Merchandise | 15 Comments

For those who’re interested in collecting EarthBound/MOTHER merchandise, those official MOTHER 1+2 Starman SMAAAASH! T-shirts are back in stock at the King of Games site, and available in all sizes! See the T-shirts here. Whenever I post Japanese merchandise on the site, people are always shocked at the prices – but that’s just how much things are over there. So don’t be T...Read More »

July 30th, 2010 | MOTHER 1, Merchandise, Videos | 27 Comments

Since we seem to be on a video spree lately, here’s another one for the fire: a video by LucasTizma – one of the most crazed EarthBound/MOTHER collectors around – unpacking his latest package of swag. Check it out: Holy moly, it’s like it’s EarthBound Christmas! ...Read More »

July 22nd, 2010 | MOTHER 1, Merchandise, Videos | 28 Comments

On YouTube, a Japanese user named kumao1002 posted a video of his MOTHER series merchandise collection, and it’s really impressive. There’s stuff in there that I forgot even existed! I’m also amazed at the quality of some of these items, especially considering that MOTHER 1 was released 22 years ago. It’s also nice to see a lot of these things in more detail, a lot of it w...Read More »

July 19th, 2010 | EarthBound, Merchandise | 32 Comments

Yesterday, I posted about the new series of MOTHER series figures coming out over the next seven months (reference), but there’s actually a side contest to the whole campaign, which is explained in Japanese here. Basically, the figures are broken into three groups, and whenever you win a figure set, you’ll get access to an e-mail address (using the 2D bar codes that you decode with yo...Read More »

July 18th, 2010 | EarthBound, MOTHER 1, Merchandise, Uncategorized | 96 Comments

A few months back, at the Giant Mr. Saturn event in Japan, we learned that Banpresto would be releasing an entire line of MOTHER and MOTHER 2 figures later in the year. Well, it’s later in the year, and at last they’ve been officially announced! Banpresto has a new page that outlines all of the figure sets that will be released one by one over the course of probably a year or so. The ...Read More »

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