February 9th, 2012 | EarthBound, Events, Videos | 13 Comments

Some years ago while trying to dig up old and lost EarthBound-related videos, I decided to see if I could find anything from E3 1995, where EarthBound was shown off. I didn’t find much, just a single video that showed a super-quick shot of an EarthBound display at the event. I forgot about it until Juanito reminded me of it recently. Here it is: Note: If that video ever dies or whatever, he...Read More »

February 7th, 2012 | EarthBound, Images | 16 Comments

Demetre submitted this recently: I’ve been looking around for the past year or so for EarthBound or Mother related backgrounds and have only come across 5 or 6 at the most, some of which aren’t the greatest but still it’s Earthbound. The attached file is what I currently use now but I just wish there were more. Do you know of any place where I could look, or anywhere that people ...Read More »

February 5th, 2012 | EarthBound, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 1+2, MOTHER 3 | 45 Comments

An extremely common thing I see on message boards and e-mails is: I want to get into the Mother / EarthBound games but don’t know where to start. What do you recommend? So I thought it’d be nice to make a short page about the topic to make everything nice and clear. I present to you The Newcomer’s Guide to the EarthBound / Mother series! Now I know a lot of people will disagree ...Read More »

February 4th, 2012 | EarthBound | 34 Comments

Jesse sent this in recently: Hey, thought this might be of interest, It’s an EarthBound Feature length Fan-Film! My buddy and I are currently trying to fund it (we’re going to shoot it regardless of if we hit the goal but it never hurts, am I right? haha) We have an IndieGoGo set up (http://www.indiegogo.com/EarthBound-Fan-Film) and I was hoping you guys could post about it? We want ...Read More »

February 3rd, 2012 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge | 30 Comments

Over on deviantART, Akatsuman132 posted this interesting similarity of Giygas and the movie poster for “Pink Floyd – The Wall”: Given the sheer amount of Western pop culture references in MOTHER 2/EarthBound (reference 1, reference 2, reference 3) it doesn’t seem too farfetched. What do you guys think? Thanks to yp95 for the tip! ...Read More »

February 2nd, 2012 | Auctions, EarthBound, Merchandise | 9 Comments

Once a month I update the EarthBound price info on buyearthbound.com so fans can get the best deals and avoid getting ripped off. Here are the latest numbers if you’re interested: Average Prices: EarthBound cart: $138 (down from $149 now that the holidays are over) EarthBound guide: $77 (previous average was $77 as well) EarthBound complete set: $493 (up from $398) That complete set averag...Read More »

February 2nd, 2012 | EarthBound, Images, Merchandise | 20 Comments

New copies of EarthBound are now worth thousands of dollars apparently, but did you know the game used to be $5.99 new at Best Buy? It sounds like in the late 90s many stores were trying to unload the game for super-cheap prices. Little did anyone know… Anyway, in some recent comments, EarthBound Central reader west_haven posted this: I work at Best Buy and I’ve been meaning to look in our...Read More »

January 28th, 2012 | EarthBound, Hacking, Uncommon Knowledge | 15 Comments

Whenever I play EarthBound, I always avoid getting Lucky Sandwiches since they’re pretty meh and I don’t like gambling with limited inventory space. But I’ve never really known how these Lucky Sandwiches actually work – all I knew was that they have random effects. A few years ago some skilled hackers dug into the ROM and found out a bunch of technical stuff, including how ...Read More »

January 26th, 2012 | EarthBound, Videos | 30 Comments

pirohiko has been constantly trying to improve the TAS record for EarthBound – this time we see the game being completed in 9 minutes and 1 second! I kinda want to see someone try this on a real console – it’d require an absolute ton of luck but I think it’d be awesome to see some crazy kid with a Power Glove on (or maybe someone wearing the MOTHER 2 jacket) pull off this ...Read More »

January 25th, 2012 | EarthBound, Images | 9 Comments

doctormoo on Reddit posted this cool custom EarthBound blanket a while back: Having the main characters is cool, but somehow those rows of Mr. Saturn makes it even better. I think it’d be nice to play EarthBound on a really cold day while wrapped in this for warmth ...Read More »