Postcards for EarthBound

This makes me wish I wasn’t slacking so much with learning Japanese, so I could write mine in a language they’ll understand with more ease.

Oh well, English will suffice, I suppose.

My head tells me this won’t make a lick of difference. But my heart is already planning to pick up a postcard tomorrow.

Hell, even if word of all these postcards gets to Shigesato Itoi and reminds him of how widespread his fans really are, then I think it’s worth it.

I’m fairly sure NCL is well aware of the persistence of the Mother fan base, so, on the one hand, I have to agree with Roo — it probably isn’t going to accomplish anything. On the other hand, of course, it’s cheap and easy and fun, and, from a content creator’s point of view, it’s always awesome to get fan mail. So there’s really no reason not to do it.

Unless, of course, you live someplace lame, and you’re ashamed to send a postcard for your location. Which I could understand. So you could always just send an odd old-timey postcard like this one.

Wait! You should print out one of the postcards form here: http://starmen.net/ebsiege/pkmailn/allcards/

I know they were meant for the sieges, but they still work here and make the message more powerful and apparent.

Better yet, you could hand-draw up your own card. Even if you’re not very good at drawing, a crappy Mr. Saturn (easy to draw!) or Ness would suffice and really show your enthusiasm.

neonix – the point of this postcard thing is to show that there are fans from all over the place, which is why it’s important that you choose a postcard that features your location on the front. It’s easier than finding card stock and a good printer and you can still draw a little something on the back if you want.

Sweet, I’m so gonna do this!

I think I might do this. If I can’t find a Postcard for my locale, maybe I’ll make one for it; I do have some Make-your-own-Postcard whatnots. 😀

And even if it doesn’t make a difference, I’m sure it’ll be fun, even if all we do is remind NoJ that “Hey! We’re here!!”

Sounds interesting…
I WANNA TRY!!! >8D
…Though nothing I ever want to mail ever actually gets mailed…

I’m probably going to try to do mine in Japanese, even I don’t speak or write it. To Google Translate!

Roo, go buy like a thousand postcards and send them Moneybags.

no! No MG!

MG, DON’T! It will come out horribly, horribly mangled and totally unreadable and then Japanese people will laugh at you. :c

If you’re going to do it in Japanese, at least give ’em a laugh by using Translation Party.

Tomorrow, I’m gonna go to my local Wal-Mart, and get one postcard specifically to send to NCL. Finally, we’re aiming at the right place to make our voices known for a VC release of EarthBound.

I have to agree with Roo here… I doubt it will work, but I really want to do it regardless. Just to express my love <3 I've never really done any of the siege stuff in the past (I did a PK Callin' like… once.. years ago… and many, MANY years before that sent an envelope art/letter to Nintendo Power) so I think it'd be nice to do. 🙂

Walmart would be the best place to look, yeah. I tried some gas stations and they didn’t even sell postcards. I finally found a bunch at Walmart.

It hurts me to have to beg to get Nintendo to simply add a game to their VC list… Nintendo… This entire situation truly is ridiculous.

I guess I should read the entire article more thoroughly before commenting…

In that case, I recommend everyone draw a little EB-related doodle on the back with their message!

(Mother 2) Please her virtual America. Announced a series console.

I’m sending one. :]

A postcard? Seems fun. Good thingg my friend owes me. I can get him to buy me a post card and send it to NCL after I`m done with it. Don`t really care what happens I just want to tell mr. Itoi i luv him for what he`s done.

Themangler – Itoi doesn’t work for NCL, so he’ll probably never see your postcard. If you want to tell Itoi something, here’s his site’s email address: postman@1101.com

Maybe we should send in three cards?
One for Mother1 on VC, one for Mother2 on VC, then the third one for Mother3. 😀
I want to see what kind of censorship they would put for them, especially 3.
I imagine that they would drastically change the story-line, change the graphics, although then they’d probably just release it as a completely different game. 🙁

I’d love to do this but getting a postcard depicting where I live would be kind of difficult. Maybe I can convince my parents back home to write one for me 😛

This reminds me of that time you asked us to do the same but with the Mr Saturn plushies =3

xD! This is so awesome, I”ll try to find a California post card.

Now I need to send one! This is an excellent idea!

yeeeeeahh….. this won’t do anything.

I’m sorry but it needs to be said. After everything the Earthbound community has done, for well over a decade to get Nintendo to do what we want with Earthbound… not the least of which was make a huge, professionally bound art book with a multi-CD set soundtracks sent straight to Nintendo’s office, petitions out the wazoo, and placing first in consistent “most wanted” polls….

And the big plan now, is to send postcards?

Have Earthbound fans truly sunk to ideas as ridiculous as this, with any seriousness? Postcards? Seriously?

In all honesty, this looks far less like a serious attempt at being noticed anymore, and more like a pathetic, throwing up of the hands from the fan community, and officially saying “Alright, we give up” by just making a half-hearted joke about it? I mean… a-wha… huh… a-ji… whuh? Seriously? Like, for totally serious? Postcards?!

*facepalm*

I think this is the first legitimate sign that the fanbase may truly well be falling apart and dissolving like sugar into an aquarium.

sigh: This isn’t a siege like the call’n, mail’n and all, and it’s not going to NoA, which at least tried to release Mother 2 anyway. NCL’s what stops it now, and frankly we’ve got nothing to lose by sending a postcard saying we like the series. You don’t have to expect an end result, just let them know you’re there.

If we’re all polite and pleasant, it’ll make them feel all gooey inside. 🙂

ill get my postcard in a few hours

How fun!

@sigh: Sorry, guess we all missed the memo that you shouldn’t thank someone for giving you something that’s been important to you and had a lasting impression on your life, unless you are going to get something out of it in return. 😐

Finally, a simple way to express my love for EarthBound! I love this idea!

sigh: Is the fanbase really falling apart if a majority of us still want to share our love for the series with Nintendo?

It’s not a big plan. As Satsy (and Mato before him) said, it’s nothing like the sieges. It may have a similar motivation behind it, but the goal of sending postcards to NCL is to raise awareness. To show them that we’re fans, that we’re global, and that we love the game. Mentioning Virtual Console is another way of showing that love – if old games are being re-released for current-gen systems, it makes sense to comment about desire to see those games become more accessible if you’re a fan.

Will it happen? Popular belief is no, and you hit the nail on the head as far as that goes. But fans are not sinking to a new low by expressing their appreciation for a game, especially if the effect on the recipient will most likely be “Wow, who knew it was this global?”.

It’s more about showing that we don’t forget and still truly enjoy playing the game than it is demanding that they try to rekindle the series. That’s something everyone would like, of course, and we’ll state that since it’s on our minds, but this isn’t a crazed demand. It’s also something the fanbase can do together, keeping a community of Earthbound fans connected in action instead of dissolving like sugar into obscurity. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

Looking forward to sending a postcard to Japan! This’ll be a first for me. 🙂

I so wanna do this!

Nice, this sounds like a great way of showing Japan we haven’t forgotten about Earthbound. I would send a postcard, but my mom’s a little funny about stuff like that. For the record, though, I live in England so it’s definitely true that the Mother series’ appeal is global. 🙂

Ok guys, as another Floridian, I found a great Florida postcard with a hot beach babe on it! Maybe that will convince them.

I know only a bit of Nipponese, but I would send one post-card if I had the resources/permission.

neonix: nice idea! It would be a good idea to send em’ a Peru postcard.

sigh: Sorry, but your comment was lost in the darkness.

This gives me hope. I’ll check this out and see what I can do.

Decorate your letter with sparkles. :p
And don’t lose hope cause 1. E3 is coming this summer.
2. Earthbounds 15th birthday this summer.
Everyone pray and hope the world hears you prayers so giygas can stop controlling nintendo to not release earthbound on vc.

where doing this man

where making this hapen

sweet

I’ll pick a postcard up. I frequent NYC, so it shouldn’t be too hard for me to find a postcard relevant to my location that would get the point across. I’ll draw a little Mr. Saturn on the back, too.

Is there a message I should include to make it easily understandable?

This is gonna be awesome! Can’t wait to send one in!

…Ice warrior? I’m not alone, it seems. 😛

Anyway, just sent mine with a little Ninten picture and a Franklin Badge picture on the back. I mentioned MOTHER 1 too, so that way I would express love for the entire series.

This certainly made my birthday complete! 😀

I know nothing will come out of this, but I’ll try sending one with drawings just for the fun of it. Now I just have to find a Texas postcard that doesn’t make people think I ride a horse to school. (You’d be surprised at the amount of people who believe that.)

started a topic at starmen.net on this. url:http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Games/Mother2/Postcards-for-EarthBound/first#post1521706

Simple and sweet.

My friend and I are pumped up for this with only one thing stopping us but we will still try.
WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL STOP US!?….I’m only 12 and he’s 13…the chances of us doing this ….,1 in 128

I love the idea

They will hear about the wonderful dairy farmland of Pennsylvania with my postcard!

_______________
MILKSHAKE:

This delicious dairy treat consists of well-blended love from your local neighborhood cow. Thank the cow sometime…

When consumed, you recover about 80HP.

why not. it really dosen’t hurt not to

MOTHER2だいすき！！！

neonix, what part of Florida are you from?

I just went to like 4-5 different places around my area (including Wal-Mart, some gas-stations, and Ride-Aid) and surprisingly I didn’t find any postcards around here. =/ I’ll try searching tomorrow for some. I’ll update later when I get one and mail it to NCL!

As said before, this may not get EarthBound anywhere onto the VC..

..but there’s a chance it might. 😀

Who knows? It might convince them, might not. I’m from Australia, so this would be very powerful stuff.

This seems like a little fun thingamabob to do. We’re really getting the power out, aren’t we? 🙂

I’d like to do this too, this is such a nice idea! Like many fans here, I have the feeling it won’t change anything, but I think it’s still a sweet thing to do.

You can be sure they will receive at least a postcard from France! 😀

I’ll see if I can find one with a recipe for Yorkshire Pudding on the front.

i just worte mine and will be sending it tomorrow tolate to send it tonight it would be cool to find one with the beatles on it or something like that

Cool, I’ll try to find a postcard of Connecticut (or the Beatles like Yoshi said) 😀

Okay, I’m in guys.

sweet, this will not only show my fandom. but help the US Postal services. I can’t wait.

Wow. Being nice and polite? No sending in death-threats or poorly written crap? Thanking NCL for bringing the Mother series into being instead of cursing them for not releasing the games outside of Japan?

Dang. The Mother fandom is just too awesome and mature to be real. 😀

I see Fire
Then i see rain
And then, Mother Fans Smiles.
Everything will be fine.
Reggie knows it.

Well my postcard’s all written up, just gotta get it sent. This is a great idea, even if it doesn’t change anything.

sent mine a cupple days ago wonder wien it wil get there

I really don’t see how this isn’t another siege. isn’t this what we did for EB siege japan? nonetheless, I support it

I think I’ll do this. But I’ll have to persuade my parents to let me send a postcard to Japan… Not sure how much it’ll cost…

Anyways, since I am A: Too young to know the days of the SNES and B: On the wrong continent to play Earthbound I’m particularly eager to experience it properly(instead of watching LPs of the series, repeatedly.)

This looks pretty cool! I’m gonna try this myself, regardless of the outcome! And then maybe I’ll do pretty much the same idea AGAIN, only that I’m going to mail it to XSEED, the subject is going to be Retro Game Challenge, and my concern is about giving the aforementioned RGC a second chance on shelves so the chances of a sequel localization will increase.

Come to think of it, my concern about RGC2 being localized for Americans is….you know, almost virtually the same as the EB fans’ concern about EB on the Virtual Console (no pun intended about the use of the word “virtual”)

Agreed… Going right up to the Mail Center.

mine said Hello! I am a big fan of EarthBound and would love to see it on the virtual consle. Thank you! then a little picture of mr.saturn

btw it cost me about 98 cents

I sent mine, saying Hi! I like the Mother saga a lot, and I’d love to see it on the Virtual Console. Thanks!
Then, a picture of Masked Man

BTW, Mato, have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpe4eioI0UU

Do you think it’s real? I can’t tell…

Ricardo – that’s definitely fan-made, not official.

You guys remember Ruffini the Dog, right? He gives you an address to write to when you talk to him during the ending, and actually encourages you to write to it. Seems like it might be entertaining to make some kind of reference to that on those postcards….

Poe, I know it’s Fan-made, but, how the guy managed to hack Mother 3? As far as I know, we can only hack overworld sprites, not battle sprites.

I am doing this.

me too

thank you for putting this up on the front page again. I got the post card but I couldn’t find this to get the address. this time i wrote the address on paper so I won’t ever loose. I know peole all around the USA. I should get them to do the same 😀 (just need to find some spare cash to mail it now)

There actually is a postcard specially made for it on Zazzle…..

Going to do this this week. It’s going to be nothing short of awesome. 😀

I live in florida too..

You live in Florida too, Mato?

The EarthBound fans in Cleveland have to be heard too! After losing at sports so much, maybe we can win at this lol

I’m a 13-year-old Mother fan from Ireland, and even if it doesn’t work, heck, I’m doing it for the fun of it!
Plus I plan to send them a nice Irish postcard with a picture of Ness and a Mr. Saturn in the corner. 🙂

I would love to know how to write this request in Japanese. It might get NCL’s attention more.