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August 8th, 2018 | EarthBound, Videos
EarthBound? More like NOT bound… to Earth.
14-year-old Ronnie Doyle and a group of high school kids from Earth to Sky Calculus recently launched a copy of EarthBound from California to the edge of space with a helium balloon. You can watch the game’s amazing journey in this video:
This was thanks to Ronnie’s grandfather, who made a donation to the Earth to Sky Calculus group and allowed Ronnie to send an object “smaller than a lunchbox” into space. And the game still works!
Thanks to Chris Kohler over at Kotak for breaking the news 🙂
– Poe
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6 Comments to EarthBound Goes to Space
 | Leeaux said on Aug. 10, 2018 |
When the balloon popped and all that stuff was in space, I was like “What the heck was that!?” Naturally I was thinking, “oh snap was that an alien/ships in space!?”
Cause I’m an idiot.
 | game4brains said on Aug. 10, 2018 |
Looks like the scrapped “Space Bound” name was onto something after all!
 | Arturo said on Aug. 11, 2018 |
Somebody needs to add the Skyrunner theme to the video. Or the Mother title theme when it is in space.
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| JeffShotFirst said on Aug. 15, 2018 |
YESSSSSS!
 | Poe said on Aug. 17, 2018 |
(We were switching servers on Monday and I think a comment from this post was lost in the move. Sorry to whoever posted that lost comment!!)
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- Poe: (We were switching servers on Monday and I think a comment from this post was lost in the move. Sorry to whoever posted that lost comment!!)
- Pierre: I’d love to see them add Porky in his Spider Mech or Heavily Armed Porky as a playable character. Just shrink him down a bit too,...
- JeffShotFirst: YESSSSSS!
- Leeaux: Is that a Poe I spy sneaking in a post? I’m pumped for the Ramblin Evil Mushroom! I’m always excited when they add anything...
- Arturo: Somebody needs to add the Skyrunner theme to the video. Or the Mother title theme when it is in space.
Somebody has got to show Itoi this!