54 days until the Earthbound worldwide release Miiverse storm
If it makes you feel any better, I bought super mario rpg from a video store in 2002 for $4 and traded it in a week later to EBgames for 50 cents to get an Android 18 action figure. I was 10.
Looking at the Miiverse community in NA for Balloon Fight, there are quite a few posts about Earthbound, and many of the most popular posts are relating to Earthbound and its worldwide release. A post I made about it even got 100 Yeahs!
It's nice to see people want the game brought over. I really hope it gets someones attention. Maybe even from Itoi himself when he'll be in the Mother 2 Miiverse community.
...I want to play EB again now, badly.
Like I said in the Miiverse thread there's quite a few of them under Popular. I did my part in Yeahing them allLooking at the Miiverse community in NA for Balloon Fight, there are quite a few posts about Earthbound, and many of the most popular posts are relating to Earthbound and its worldwide release. A post I made about it even got 100 Yeahs!
It's nice to see people want the game brought over. I really hope it gets someones attention. Maybe even from Itoi himself when he'll be in the Mother 2 Miiverse community.
...I want to play EB again now, badly.
hopefully more people do their part.Holy crap, almost nothing you just posted is actually true. :/
I wish I were as optimistic.
Because it is a physical original copy. Same reason if EB ever comes out on NA VCthe price won't drop too much. People aren't paying the 200+ to just play the game, they are paying that much to own a semi-rare classic.LOL!
There's really no reason not to be. I said it in another thread: NOA might be shitty but they're not stupid. They know the demand out there for this specific game, the sort of positive press and enthusiast response a release would garner, and they'll be more than happy to collect $8-9 a pop for it. Nothing would propel Wii U VC into the gaming press headlines and fanbase consciousness like an Earthbound release (finally, after all these years) will. I doubt even NOA will sleep on that sort of opportunity.I wish I were as optimistic.
I'm pretty sure Mother 1 doesn't suffer from copyright issues, other than perhaps the chip-tunes version of Johnny B. Goode (yes, the same song in EB that's apparently infringing). They could release it but I'm not sure it would do well. Then again, it's just a NES rom so it wouldn't be much work. That said, Nintendo definitely can't release Mother without releasing Earthbound. The two would have to be released in junction if Mother was to be released at all.
My guess is the "copyright concerns" didn't come to light until M2/EB was being readied for international release in 2008. And if those issues didn't apply in Japan, the Wii VC release would've gone through. But it didn't, so they likely did.
Terranigma's another game well past due on Virtual Console. As are SoulBlazer and Illusion of Gaia/Time.
Shit, I hate seeing this. I wouldn't be surprised if Itoi was the one keeping EB away from the west after he learned about this.
90s marketing towards kids and teenagers: focus on grossout or being xtreme. Almost all of it is abhorrent or even nonsensical a few years later. Which is usually the case with stuff sold to kids I guess, but it was probably at its most extreme then. And I do think some bought into it, I was sold on the Nintendo Power spread, but had a morbid fascination with those scratch & sniff cards.One of the worst ad campaigns of all time.
It's like they took the grossest part of the game (Master Belch, perhaps?) and characterized the entire experience by it. That kind of misses the mark. I don't know what they were thinking.
