Original Franklin Badge Video

Wow, this is, like, monumental! I’m so jealous! 😀 Congrats, and thanks for the video!

I certainly didn’t expect it to be that small. I blame SSB.

BEAUTIFUL. GORGEOUS. GAHHHHH.

Wow, that is quite amazing. ^_^

Oh wow, AMAZING!

Congrats Chewy!

Jeez, now if i get that, I won’t have to worry about being tazed or zapped bt lightning 🙂

I was zapped indirectly by lightning once. It hit the roof of an old condo we used to live in. Electricity traveled, it schocked me a bit. Nothing serious. But, if I had a Franklin Badge waaaaaaaaaaaay back then, I would have been unaffected. Shame.

@Loidrage, Something like taht happened to me weeks ago My friends and I were playing Kick the can in the coldisack. I was it though, I thought I found someone in the bushes so I moved away from the can to check it out. Just than a Lightning bolt hit the center of the coldisack, and I can feel the charges of electricity

@RadicOmega Yeah. It actually did hit me pretty hard though, I was like seven. Fell over and ended up in the toybox. Haha. No harm done though, so its just a nice memory.

I would throw that right on my jean jacket lapel.

I would seal that in a 3-inch-thick plexiglass container so its precious molecules could never be tainted.

@Loidrage, have you noticed that EB central has been struggling to put more stuff up each day?

@RadicOmega Its doing quite well for a series thats been dead for almost 5 years. Frankly, I’m surprised its not stuff up every MONTH.

@Loidrage, I wouldn’t concider EarthBound to be dead. Us fans are keeping it a game to never let go of! Evan though Nintendo is being stupid about the whole MOTHER stuff, I see your pointe, but say if there is a 3DS virtual console poll, EarthBound will keep winning. So fans and other people are keeping this series alive

@RadicOmega Its alive. But on life support. Nintendo doesn’t really want anything to do with it, Itoi, understandably, doesn’t want to make another MOTHER game ever… If it didn’t have such a devoted fanbase, it would be dead, gone, and forgotten. Even now, if it weren’t for the MOTHER 4 fangame, we would just be beating a dead horse, playing MOTHER 1-3 a lot and really doing nothing new.

@Loidrage, true and true, though minus the fact that i’m never getting tired of Earthbound or Mother 3. I’m also trying to get my friends to play the game I’m only in middle school, so my friends never heard of the game! I as well get mad when people say Ness and Lucas don’t have a game. I don’t blame them actually

I’m also in middle school. Besides my friends who have played the game/watched LP’s of the game, the only other person there who plays video games has a snowballs chance in hell of ever playing it. He’s a CoD freak. I ignore him. 😛

I hate how so many people are COD freaks, I only play it in the summer, RPG’s are so much better. (I can Play piggy guys on my French Horn in band class! :D)

@RadicOmega Yeah. Haha, I remember once I made one of my friends watch the Wess Dance. My other friend who was with me was a MOTHER fan, so we just both sat and laughed at his reaction, haha. And I love Piggy Guys. Of course, I can’t play any instruments for (pork)beans. 😛

If you two (if you really are two people) are going to keep chatting all over the site like this, could you please take it to e-mail or something instead?

Oops

@Mato, but… I don’t have an email

Then please take your chats elsewhere, unless you stay on topic.

And i also don’t see how we can’t have a small conversation

@Mato K than

It’s fine if you guys are on topic, but you’ve been filling posts with unrelated chatter lately. You can also take your chats to the EB Central message board if you want, that’s what it’s there for.

@RadicOmega: Why do people keep saying that this site is struggling? The updates may not be anything amazing most of the time, but I certainly wouldn’t call updating every few days struggling, no matter how small the updates. This site updates more frequently than some sites I know for a series that releases a new game every year or two.

My schedule is to update once every two days, and if something awesome happens in between, I’ll stick that update in between them. It’s been that way for a long time, so I don’t see what the deal is.

I want updates every hour!! Entertain me, Tomato man!!!

@KingDarian It’d be hard to find something to post every hour. 🙂

Gahhhhhh I can’t wait for Chewy to tell the story. When will it be story time?

Wow… its..its.. AWESOME!! I wonder if she’ll put it on eBay… I will bid $250.00 on it if she does… (Not much, but it’s worth a try.) 😉

I am soooooo jelly you can put me on toast.

Sheesh. What is wrong with you people?

@LucasTizma I don’t know. I’m just here.

Seeing one of these makes me ill because I don’t own it. 😛

Naw, congrats Chewy!

Things to note:

Differences I’ve noticed between the MOTHER1 and MOTHER3 badges:

1. Big difference is, of course, the yellow background and yellow Franklin Badge text.

2. The Lightning Bolt is a darker blue

3. The MOTHER text doesn’t seem to be slightly see-through like in the MOTHER3 badges.

Differences aside the badges seem to be the same size and even have the exact same pin bar on the back. The MOTHER3 badges may have even been made using blanks from the MOTHER1 run back in 89.

I uploaded a better shot of the badge, hope this helps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDu4LEI2tMk

Also: NOT FOR SALE

AWESOME video, Chewy! I can’t wait to read the story.

And…see spring cleaning video 4. Sorry; I couldn’t help but watch while I was there 😛

You all think it’s worth at least 5 million bucks, when in reality in Japan it’s probably like…a nickel and a dime.

Remember dignity before drooling peeps.

Like the new video says, the last one that sold on Yahoo Auctions Japan sold for quite a lot. A lot more than a dime 😛

Lol I wonder if anyone ever tested if it works or not XD