April 6th, 2012 | MOTHER 3, Videos | 15 Comments

Here’s a video by IamCanadian3333 showing a bunch of EarthBound references that appear in MOTHER 3: Has anyone ever made a full list of references? I realized that’s probably something I should’ve done at some point, either for the translation project or for this site, but just never did. ...Read More »

November 17th, 2011 | Images, MOTHER 3 | 15 Comments

A couple folks have sent this in recently, here’s what Kelsyjones says: I’m not sure if it’s actually supposed to be a Mother 3 reference, but I thought I’d send it in anyway. In the first chapter of the Black Butler manga (also known as Kuroshitsuji), one of the main characters receives a game for the “Ninkyodo Gameguy Advance”, an obvious parody of the Nintend...Read More »

September 24th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 3, Videos | 57 Comments

A couple readers have sent in news that an Australian TV show used MOTHER 3 music during one of its news segments. You can check it out for yourself here, it starts around 2:25 in: The song used is Porky’s Porkies, which is one of the battle tunes near the end of the game. I’m guessing the audio people stumbled upon this song when they did a search for “Pokies” or someth...Read More »

July 20th, 2011 | Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 24 Comments

An old Japanese Game Boy game called “For the Frog the Bell Tolls” was recently fan-translated into English, which is cool, since I’ve seen people pick up and drop the project like crazy over the years. But at last it’s done, and you can check it out here. Why talk about this here, you ask? Well, apparently there’s a character you can talk to in the game that’s ...Read More »

June 29th, 2010 | EarthBound, Images | 37 Comments

Over the last few weeks a couple people have e-mailed me about Scott Pilgrim-related EarthBound stuff. The movie’s coming out sometime soon too, so I guess people are really hyped up about it lately. Anyway, here’s one that talks about the “Chaos Theatre”. Normally, I’d chalk that up to coincidence, but it’s clear there’s EarthBound/MOTHER fandom involved...Read More »

December 5th, 2009 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 24 Comments

Brownie Brown, the developer for MOTHER 3, has a new DSiWare game in Japan called “Kappa Road”. And it looks like Ocho the octopus from MOTHER 3 makes a cameo in the title screen: (click to enlarge) Except for the hat, it looks like it’s the same sprite with some possible small graphical touch-ups. If you look closely, you can also see a Pigmask helmet next to him: You can see ...Read More »

November 30th, 2009 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 42 Comments

In the Japanese anime series “Natsu no Arashi”, there’s a pretty big EarthBound cameo that includes Ness, Jeff, possibly King, and a well-endowed Starman. You can check it out here, see around the 1:25-ish mark. EarthBound cameos in TV shows seem to be really rare, in fact the cameo in Shin-chan is the only other one I can think of off the top of my head. So a cameo this big is ...Read More »

April 10th, 2009 | EarthBound, Images | 21 Comments

Do you have a kid? Do you like EarthBound? Then here’s the perfect thing for you! Ozzie Boy! Only $34 will get you this chart to measure your kid’s growth up to five feet! After that, he’s ready to go out and smash dogs and cops with baseball bats while ditching school and breaking into people’s houses! It seems like this would be a coincidence. But every one tenth of a sec...Read More »

March 11th, 2009 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 12 Comments

Well, not really the wild wild, but much like that EarthBound on Frasier sighting, it’s a case of “oh, EarthBound’s on TV in the background”. This comes courtesy of Chant Cowen. This particular sighting is from an episode of The Lab with Leo Laporte, which I’d never heard of before, but I guess it was a Canadian tech show that recently ended. Anyway! Seen EarthBound ...Read More »

January 19th, 2009 | EarthBound, Images, Uncommon Knowledge | 30 Comments

Now this is a very unknown thing, and it was a real surprise when someone finally noticed it. In Episode 9 of Season 3 of Frasier, the giant EarthBound boxes make a cameo! The main box is seen several times from a few different angles, and is situated next to a stack of Super NES boxes. This was the 1995-1996 season, which coincides with EB’s release exactly. I don’t know how long it...Read More »