April 23rd, 2012 | Images, MOTHER 1+2, MOTHER 3 | 13 Comments

The other day girl034 sent this to me: Dear Mato, Yesterday I found an article about “Mother 1+2″‘s release in a german magazine called “Gamepro”. (the magazine is from 2003) It also claims that Mother3 will soon be coming out. I hope you haven’t gotten any messages about that yet. Greetings. I’m not sure what it says, but it looks short enough that it...Read More »

January 12th, 2012 | MOTHER 1 | 11 Comments

Ultra translator Chewy has come through again – this time she’s translated a review of MOTHER 1 by Satoshi Tajiri, who went on to create Pokemon in the 90s. This review actually predates Pokemon, so I wonder how much influence MOTHER 1 (and maybe MOTHER 2) had on his inspiration for Pokemon’s game design. At any rate, it’s a long and interesting read – I like how he d...Read More »

January 4th, 2012 | MOTHER 3 | 62 Comments

Famitsu recently held an online survey asking readers for the games that most moved them to tears. Of the zillions of games submitted, MOTHER 3 managed to break into the top ten at #8! Incidentally, the top ten list was: #1: Final Fantasy X #2: Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII #3: Okami #4: Clannad #5: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater #6: Steins;Gate #7: Air #8: Final Fantasy VII #8: MOTHER 3 #10: Fi...Read More »

December 9th, 2011 | EarthBound, Images, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 3 | 10 Comments

Visitante sent in these scans from a Spanish-language version of NGamer. It looks like it’s an article about the history of the MOTHER series. I don’t have a translation handy (used to know Spanish but it got pushed out when I learned Japanese, doh) so hopefully some language-knowers here can help translate. It seems like EarthBound stuff is in NGamer magazines a lot: EarthBound in ...Read More »

November 27th, 2011 | EarthBound, Images | 6 Comments

Maikel submitted this the other day, it’s from the Dutch version of NGamer and discusses the top 100 Super NES games. Here’s the translation: Earthbound is one of the few import titles to get a place in this list. But this is a special case anyway. Earthbound – or actually, the entire Mother-series, from which Earthbound is the second game – always liked the obscure. That&...Read More »

November 15th, 2011 | EarthBound, Images | 77 Comments

meleemario submitted this a while ago: Hey Tomato! I dug up an old issue of Tips & Tricks (R.I.P.) magazine the other day when I was digging through my N64 collection, looking for a game to play. In any case, I spotted Ness on the cover of of T&T (Only took me 8 years to notice!), and I thought that despite this being relatively minor, it’s still important nonetheless to see Earthb...Read More »

November 4th, 2011 | EarthBound, Images | 8 Comments

chavacero sent in a while back: Ok. This is what i found already in a videogame magazine, called Game Masters. Its about an article about 20 years of existence of SNES console. They were talking about his design, development, processor, games. The best games of SNES. And one of these games, Earthbound. it said: One of the best games and rarest titles of SNES. Known as MOTHER 2 in japan, officially...Read More »

October 14th, 2011 | EarthBound, Images | 11 Comments

Way back in 2007 GameInformer did a several-page piece on EarthBound. Even though I own this issue, I totally forgot about it until Joshua sent in these scans: It’s interesting to see how the modern gaming media is much more positive about EarthBound than the gaming press was back in 1995. ...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 »

May 28th, 2011 | EarthBound, EarthBound 64, Images, MOTHER 3 | 22 Comments

Apparently the July 2011 issue of Official Nintendo Magazine of Australia has some little blurbs about EarthBound and the MOTHER games: (click for full size) Nothing much, but it’s always nice to see mentions in magazines. Even if they all use the same handful of screenshots every time (like this phenomenon) Is “fashion” really spelled like “fasion” in Australia, t...Read More »

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