November 2nd, 2011 | Images, MOTHER 3 | 18 Comments

Rina (or possibly Lina) sent me this recently: Hi! I can speak english too, actually. Recently I found a couple bits of japanese fan art and manga that I thought was pretty funny. Link : http://www.tcat.ne.jp/~mu-ko/mother3.html Maybe it’s something you’ve already seen before..? I realize it probably won’t be much interesting to most fans of this site since it’s in Engli...Read More »

June 25th, 2011 | EarthBound, Images | 3 Comments

Over on gamesradar is a neat article about video game bars in Japan. Chewy noticed that one of them, called the 8-Bit Cafe, uses the Japanese Mr. Saturn font: The part that says “5かいは” (“5th Floor”) uses the Japanese Mr. Saturn font, probably using one of the fan-made computer fonts out there. It’s not everyday you see Mr. Saturn fonts out in the real world, so...Read More »

May 25th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, Merchandise | 16 Comments

By now, I’m sure many people here already know about this, but a bunch ofJapanese video game musicians are working together on a relief benefit album called “Play for Japan”. Here’s a little video about it: One of the musicians listed is Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka, one of the musicians for MOTHER 1 and MOTHER 2 / EarthBound. I don’t know what kind of music hi...Read More »

February 13th, 2011 | MOTHER 1 | 10 Comments

While trying to find a full scan of this really neat MOTHER 1 ad (to no avail ) I ran across the Famicom Tsuushin reviews of MOTHER 1 from 1989. Famicom Tsuushin is what we now know as Famitsu. Anyway, here are their reviews translated into English – you’ll see that a lot of the complaints Western fans have about the game were actually shared by Japanese players too. These come from ...Read More »

December 21st, 2010 | EarthBound, Merchandise, Videos | 14 Comments

Remember that EarthBound charity auction a few weeks back? All of the plushes were courtesy of a nice fellow in Japan named eagle0wl. eagle0wl is super-skilled at winning stuff from those crane games in Japanese arcades and even posted a video of catching them: There are lots of different types in different arcades, so if you come across one in Japan it might not be exactly like these ones. I wis...Read More »

September 7th, 2010 | EarthBound, Merchandise, Videos | 25 Comments

Today I came across some neat videos. This is the closest many of us will get to winning one of these plushes ourselves: This next video is by Haruna Anno, who you might remember from this. And I think this might actually be considered a rarity: I think the Mr. Saturn plushes might still be in arcades, I’m not sure. The Belch ones are pretty hard to come by from what I hear. If anyone can...Read More »

April 28th, 2010 | EarthBound, Events | 19 Comments

Super EarthBound fan Chewy recently e-mailed me about her translating the MOTHER 2 novel during Golden Week in Japan. Here’s what she says: As some of you know, this week is Golden Week in Japan. The entire country puts down its tools and enters what is basically a week-long national holiday. What this means is that I can’t fly home to America for anything less than $2,500, and that any t...Read More »

April 13th, 2010 | EarthBound 64, Images, Uncommon Knowledge | 35 Comments

Ten years ago (dang, ten already?) I was studying in Japan. As an EarthBound fan, it was exciting that there was a whole lot of MOTHER series stuff to be had, though it turned out I didn’t have the money for most of it. Anyway, sometimes I would write articles for Starmen.Net about my experiences. Here’s the one about where I reserved the Nintendo 64 version of MOTHER 3 the day they st...Read More »

March 15th, 2010 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound | 18 Comments

This was sent in a little while ago but I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it so it’s a little late. Apparently someone made an album called “EarthBound ep.” and it has the “Earth Bound” title graphics from EarthBound Zero on the cover. You can see more info here. Only the first song really seems to be EarthBound-related, but maybe I’m missing something....Read More »

February 17th, 2010 | EarthBound | 86 Comments

Do you like EarthBound? Want to possibly see it on the Virtual Console? Then grab a postcard, write a simple message asking for it, and send it to Japan! (more…) ...Read More »

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