April 4th, 2012 | Images, Itoi | 6 Comments

Fellow EarthBound fan and world trekker Luna recently stumbled upon an autograph board signed by Shigesato Itoi (including a Mr. Saturn drawing!) in a random restaurant in Japan the other day: The Mr. Saturn is saying something like, “Was yum.” Here’s what Luna has to say about it: Found at my fave hiroshima-style okonomi joint on the second floor of ASSE (thanks japan) departme...Read More »

March 4th, 2012 | EarthBound, Events, Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 8 Comments

Just before MOTHER 2′s release in Japan in 1994, a special celebratory event was held for all of the staff members who worked on the game. Chewy’s translated an article about it and included lots of scans of pictures from the event, check it all out here! The event hall The official figures were displayed My favorite quote is probably this part of Miyamoto’s speech: “These fi...Read More »

February 29th, 2012 | Itoi | 14 Comments

The last leap day in 2008, Shigesato Itoi posted on his daily update about how everyone should do crazy stuff and slack off from their duties (see here). To my disappointment, he didn’t mention it again in his update this year… but wait, this year he has an entire section of his site about it! It’s all in Japanese, but you can see the pictures here – basically, he makes it...Read More »

February 6th, 2012 | Itoi | 15 Comments

Many years ago, when Shigesato Itoi’s Hobonichi site was just starting out, there was a mailbag-type section on the site which posted e-mails from readers. In 2000 this message was posted, all in English: Hello, Mr. Itoi! My name is Melanie Slater and I am a mentor for a 12 year old boy named Julian Griffith, who is a student at Quincy Junior high School. His literacy class required that a b...Read More »

January 22nd, 2012 | Auctions, Itoi | 8 Comments

There are a couple neato items EarthBound/MOTHER-related on eBay today – even if you’re not a collector you might find it interesting! Japanese Signboard, signed by Shigesato Itoi pk_stan is selling this Japanese “shikishi” signboard, signed by Itoi in 1985. It’s addressed to someone named Tomoyuki, or perhaps it’s the name of the thing in the picture, I’...Read More »

December 13th, 2011 | Interviews, Itoi | 14 Comments

A little while back Shigesato Itoi, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Satoru Iwata had another one of their discussions about games, creativity, and all that stuff for another installment of “Iwata Asks”. This one is meant to be about the new Zelda Skyward Sword game, but it applies to stuff in general more than anything. You can check out the discussion in English here. Thanks to Gill for the ti...Read More »

December 11th, 2011 | Images, Itoi | 63 Comments

Here’s a picture of long-time EarthBound fans Chewy and Luna. Oh and some other guy, his name’s Shigesato Itoi I think. Operation Steal EarthBound 64 Prototype is a go! Alpha team in position! ...Read More »

November 14th, 2011 | Itoi, Videos | 11 Comments

Here’s Shigesato Itoi playing ping pong with Hiroshi Ishii, an MIT computer scientist. What’s neat about Itoi’s job and his company is that he meets so many types of people and get to experience so many types of things. In fact, making games was just another little diversion for him, which seems to surprise a lot of Western gamers. ...Read More »

November 7th, 2011 | EarthBound 64, Interviews, Itoi | 5 Comments

Once again the flood of Itoi interview translation continues as Chewy blasts through her NaNoTraMo stuff! This time we’re treated to an interview in the January 31, 1997 issue of Famitsu. In it, Shigesato Itoi and Satoru Iwata discuss stuff from the ill-fated Nintendo 64 version of MOTHER 3. Here’s an excerpt: Nagata Moving on, what’s the deal with the battles that Itoi’s always ra...Read More »

November 5th, 2011 | Interviews, Itoi, MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 3 Comments

It sounds like Chewy’s on a Japanese magazine article translation binge, so here’s another big Shigesato Itoi interview, this time from the November 1996 issue of 64Dream. The article discusses (among other things): Itoi’s aversion to assigning “themes” to video games Itoi’s original intent to make MOTHER 3 in 2-D The extent of completion of MOTHER 3 even by the fall of 1996 I...Read More »

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