Ancient English Review of MOTHER Unearthed!

Reading this makes me really, really nostalgic and I find myself wanting to speculate about how things would have been different if Mother had been released stateside. If only the game had been developed a year earlier, it probably would have happened.

This response alone makes me wonder if the game would have done well enough to setup EarthBound for the SNES to really have been successful. At that point it would have been a sequel to a well-loved game, and some of the things that likely made people hesitate to pick it up in the mid 90s would have likely been less of an issue.

It’s great we’ve come full-circle now and it’s great we finally have Mother 1 and Mother 2 available.

Great review, thanks for sharing Mato.

A year before the world wide web was invented, not the internet itself. Without the internet there couldn’t have been a Usenet.

Part of me wants to go back in time so that I could have an appreciation for the graphics that are “extremely beautiful” and the “best for any system”.

The music on the other hand is still timeless and I wish more of Mother 1’s songs had been included in Mother 2.

Good find! I agree with TragicManner, What would of been different had we gotten 1 back in the day? Anyway. I personally don’t think the first game in the series looks bad for NES standards (and Famicom standards obviously.) the battle sprites are mainly what I’m talking about here. But the NPCs all look memorable.

Anyway, this review would of gotten me excited for the game back in the day had I been born in the 80s and saw this. But I’m just a generic 2000 kid so….. No nastalgia 4 me.

This John Leo guy seems to have written quite a few posts praising MOTHER back in the day. Makes me wonder if he ever played the later games and EB0 or EBB when they came out.

Kids have had widely varying misunderstandings of when the internet was “invented. I’ve met plenty who SWEAR to me (someone who actually works with interwebs) that it was “invented in the year 2000” and “didn’t exist in the 90’s”.

The fun part is when I inform them, and show them the proof through youtube videos (generally their only accepted form of proof), that it was actually invented in the 60’s, though at the time it served entirely as a means to prevent the loss of military information in the event any single major military base was wiped off the map due to nuclear attack. In the 70’s, new standards allowed the internet to exist outside military installations for the first time, but generally these networks never talked to each other and were still just hobbyist stuff used in colleges. It was in the 1980s that these individual networks gained a protocol that actually let them communicate with each other, allowing one to “link” BBS systems to each other. It wasn’t until the 90s that HTTP and “web pages” (and hyper links) were developed, and it was at that point that the internet started being pushed to the average consumer. I was lucky in that my dad worked with networks so I had internet access growing up in the 80’s, but it wasn’t exactly completely rare, or the movie War Games wouldn’t have made sense to people at the time.

All of the major revolutionary protocols had already been developed by the 2000’s. The big “developments” after that were entirely service related, such as Google, Twitter, and the Facebooks. Big game changing services, but they are tied to individual companies and don’t represent something big to the underpinning functionality of the internet. HTML comes a lot closer to that, being a web standard, but even that is a steady evolution rather than anything particularly revolutionary. Basically, in terms of how most people interface with it, the internet hasn’t changed since the 90s, and in terms of how it functions on a world-wide nature, hasn’t changed since that protocol was developed in the 80’s to allow it. Though, I’d be foolish to say the modern internet isn’t vastly different from what came before, I’m just talking fundamentals.

Fact is though, it used to be a lot harder to FIND these groups you could talk with people about online. That itself required a good deal of luck back then and asking the right people who might know someone who knows someone who knows what you’re looking for. So, with that in mind, yes I had internet access, but no I didn’t see pretty much any of these online reviews back then.

As someone who is too lazy to search the Google Groups archives myself, I would love to see the EarthBound related things you uncovered on Usenet!

So, the Internet was around in the ’60s…?
Al Gore was a very smart guy to have created it by his 20s!
(even that joke is probably too old for some 😀 )

I’m gonna be that ‘unassuming local guy’ who points out that Al Gore never said the words: I invented the internet. It’s all rumor blah blah blah …it’s always those tax evaders who blah blah it’s always the local whiners who make a fuss over meteorites blah blah blah…

if nobody gets what I’ve said above, may God help this site.

if anybody does get what I’ve said above, which I hope most of us do, I say we make as many subtle references to the source material quoted above in the next comments. Or dont.
It could just be fun…
I hope the internet hasn’t stopped being fun.

good wall of text

Darn! I was hoping this would be a review in Old English like “Hark! Ye Urthe Boond farcical plaey – showe…”

This man was very lucky to get this prototype, little did he know he was one of the lucky few!

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Indeed, they’ll call the game “fo good”.

“4Chan” …..
That’s not cool..