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 »

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 »

February 16th, 2010 | EarthBound, Interviews | 29 Comments

In the November 1994 issue of Famicom Tsushin (later renamed to Famitsu) was a section about what Shigeru Miyamoto and some other famous people thought of MOTHER 2, which had been released a few months earlier. I’ve translated the article below. I don’t have a copy of this issue myself, so I can’t provide scans or other info, so if anyone comes across this issue, let me know! It&...Read More »