EarthBound Preview in “Total!”

yay first. Interesting. I like the blurb on the right saying that Nintendo is beating Sega by seven times and thats before the release of the Virtual Boy in Japan. Lol sauce.

Why is it that these Magazines can never spell “Ness” right?

It’s nice to see that they mentioned Mother 2.

Nes? Maybe the name is R of REALLY protected… lol

And not TM… lol.

I look forward to reading the review.

Kind of interesting that two of the three scenes are from Winters. Kind of paints Jeff as Ness for those reading about the game for the first time. Just an observation, ha ha :).

Look at the caption beneath the picture with the pencil statue. I wonder what the prize for sending in a good punch line was.

Very groovy. But I would hardly call Pokey/Porky Ness’ best friend.

At least “Nes” is better than another review that said “Tess”

Nes? Could be worse.

Is Ness’s name really that hard to remeber?
I’ve seen Tess and Nes already, what’s wrong with people and this name? lol

Don’t forget NessA 😛

Actually, a Japanese gameguide for Mother 2 actual romanized his name as “Nes” as well (I believe that same guide also correctly romanized Pokey’s name as Porky too). It does also make the pun off of NES a bit more clear. Perhapes it was the NOA localizers that got the name wrong.

It seems like they like you, “Nes”!

And damn, I remember Zoop! D;

I’ve never seen the scene with the UFOs attacking the streets zoomed in like that. It makes me wonder exactly what they did to make that one screen in the game.

“Nintendo 7 times better than Sega”

>:|

My name’s Ness, but all my friends call me Nes. It’s shorter.

“multi-million selling”? wasn’t there a post here that said mother 2 only sold like 300k in japan?

What’s with the dotted line in the top right EB screenshot?

@Tansunn

Looks like whoever threw together the screenshots in MSPaint forgot to do a lookover. ;D

“Don’t you want to buy Yoshi a pint for looking after the little fella so well?”

Ah, the 90’s… People didn’t worry about political correctness as much back then.

Also, Mato, I’m loving these ads!
Keep up the good work!

More like it’s a European magazine. Drinking a pint over there is usually the first ‘adult’ privilege you receive, unlike in America where it is the last.

Although talking of pints and Earthboundy goodness didn’t save them. The magazine went under towards the end of 1996.

There are 3 errors. 1 Ness is spelled wrong, 2 I don’t know who the best friend is who’s mentioned in the magazine other than Pokey who I know is not Ness’ best friend and 3 Mother 2 didn’t sell 1 million copies

Did anybody else notice the line “Yes Indeedily-doodily!”? Who wrote the thing, Ned Flanders?

Lol, Pokey is his best friend.

Well, he did act like it…

Yeah, the “Nes” thing is an alternate romanization more than anything else. The fact that the game was never actually released in Europe doesn’t help.

I’m personally more interested in that sepia-ish bottom picture… is that a beta shot?!

^Ugh, never mind, I just realized it was a REALLY fuzzy screenshot of a portion of the gas station screen. My bad.