Weekly Round-Up for Apr. 11, 2010

i love that little dog itoi always has around

also that “hard bosses that were worth it” link set off a bunch of security filters on my computer

This ain’t March!

Anyway, it’s nice to see these weekly roundups again.

Heh, you’re right. My sense of time is really off lately. I fixed the title.

The name link for that comment still says weekly-round-up-for-mar-11-2010. That’s what it says.

I know Itoi talked about how someone else would have to make MOTHER 4 is that were to happen, but that was around the time of MOTHER 3’s release. Now that a few years have passes, I’m willing to bet ideas for a new MOTHER game pop into his head every now and then, even if he has no serious intent to do anything with those ideas at the moment.

With this recent merchandise release, I wonder if it’s not at attempt, in some small part, to satisfy Itoi’s itch for the series.

Not saying anything major will come from it, I just think this might show that it’s hard for someone like Itoi to shake something like the MOTHER series, something he’s invested so much time and emotion into.

Geez Mato, it’s not like you have any other things going on . . . dot dot dot DOT DOT DOT まる　まる　まる

What is Itoi’s dog’s name again? I do not recall at all.

At Greenzsx87:
It’s Boullion, I’m pretty sure.

The Mr.Saturn mocked up as though from Stand Alone Complex is pretty funny.

Anyways I’m hoping Itoi decides to release the Mother trilogy on the DS (or…3DS?) eventually. It would involve comparatively little to port all three I’d imagine. Pure speculation and personal hoping but…it’d be nice.

onion, I thought your name was funny till I heard the name Neji. as in onion, and now your name seems perfectly okay. anyway. I was so sad when I missed my weekly roundup. I thought that maybe something has happened to mato…… tomato and onions are ingredients I put in almost all my foods.

Hmm, there seems to still be the persistent and patient fans who anxiously await Nintendo to revive/continue currently abandoned (it’s not the word I’m looking for but…) franchises, especially the Mother series. It’s strange, at the moment it looks like the Mother series is going to receive the “Kid Icarus” treatment from now on. I wonder if promising fangames like Mother4 might spark something in Itoi with new ideas somehow, he just wants to be the player for now, but who says he might not change his mind later?

@Onion: I dunno about putting it on the 3DS, I’d get dizzy after playing Mother3 for an hour on that thing! XD Although, it would be pretty cool if they remade them in 3D for the Wii2 (or something like that). I would SO import that from Japan, and I would learn Japanese just to play the game! Be a headache for fans to translate though. (Mato would need a cloning device! 😀 )

Cherry blossoms are cool.

Itoi’s dog is called “Bouillon,” actually, from the French meaning “broth.” Like the cubes.

If you’ll believe this, I made an ass of myself almost exactly a year ago on this very web site by talking about this and comically not knowing anything about anything.

At Darien:
Ah, sorry. It was spelled that way in a post here on EBC ( http://earthboundcentral.com/2009/07/weekly-round-up-27 ), so I thought that was it.

At Darien:
Ah, sorry. It was spelled that way once in an article here on EBC, (/2009/07/weekly-round-up-27) so I thought that might be it.

Yeah. Very very easy mistake to make, especially given the similarity to the word “bullion.”

I wish I new Japanese so I can follow his site.

Either way I got the gist of his name. I love that little nugget.

Wow. The $3000 EB listing.
Not only is the shipping not free, but the dude wants $50.
How much does the plastic coffins weigh? 😛

Hah, “plastic coffin” is a good way to describe that thing.

Just don’t go burying it underground!