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EarthBound & Virtual Console Polls

A while back, Nintendo Power started running polls in the magazine asking for the most wanted Virtual Console games. Every time it was applicable, EarthBound was always #1, with MOTHER/EarthBound Zero usually #2.

Until now, we never had an actual listing of these polls, so I’ve gathered all that info here. I didn’t realize that EarthBound had dominated this many polls, though!

Nintendo Power Issue	Poll Type	Rankings
Volume 229 – June 2008	Most Wanted	#1 EarthBound #4 MOTHER	Pic
Volume 230 – July 2008	Most Wanted	#1 EarthBound #2 MOTHER	Pic
Volume 231 – August 2008	Most Wanted	#1 EarthBound #2 MOTHER	Pic
Volume 232 – September 2008	Most Wanted	#1 EarthBound #2 MOTHER	Pic
Volume 233 – October 2008	Most Wanted	#1 EarthBound #2 MOTHER	Pic
Volume 236 – Holiday 2008	Most Wanted SNES	Readers: #1 EarthBound Staff: #4 EarthBound	Pic
Volume 238 – February 2009	Most Wanted NES	#1 MOTHER	Pic
Volume 241 – May 2009	Most Wanted	#1 EarthBound #3 MOTHER	Pic
Volume 242 – June 2009	Most Wanted RPGs	Readers: #1 EarthBound Readers: #2 MOTHER Staff: #4 EarthBound	Pic 1 Pic 2

As you can see, because EarthBound and EarthBound Zero kept dominating the polls, the Nintendo Power folks decided to switch to other kinds of polls, usually console-specific. What’s most interesting about this is that Starmen.Net only really made efforts for the very first poll – EarthBound and MOTHER got so high on the other polls by themselves.