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Edit: Here's kirbyfan407's thread for the full interview. Per ReyVGM's suggestion and as an excuse to post the full, official translation of the interview, here's the specific line:
From https://yomuka.wordpress.com/2016/0...tle-while-reminiscing-with-miitomos-producer/, an excerpt of an interview between Mother/EarthBound series creator Shigesato Itoi and Miitomo (and Super Metroid) producer Yoshio Sakamoto. Another interesting tidbit from this excerpt:
https://miitomo.com/en/talk/ said:Sakamoto: It came out quite a while ago. (Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School was a software title for the Family Computer Disk System. It was released in 1987). But when the decision was made to go forward with development, the president at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi, told me that if I was going to work on that kind of game I should ask Mr. Itoi for his opinion. And you came all the way to Nintendo to visit. I was in charge at the time.
Itoi: You were in charge of that game!?
Sakamoto: Yes (laughs) Then, you told me a lot of your opinions, and at the end when we were done you said to me "actually... there's this thing..."
Itoi: That was "MOTHER (EarthBound)".
Sakamoto: Yes. You showed me the plans for MOTHER.
Itoi: That's right, that's right. At the time the name wasn't "MOTHER". We were using the provisional title "ESP1."
From https://yomuka.wordpress.com/2016/0...tle-while-reminiscing-with-miitomos-producer/, an excerpt of an interview between Mother/EarthBound series creator Shigesato Itoi and Miitomo (and Super Metroid) producer Yoshio Sakamoto. Another interesting tidbit from this excerpt:
Translated by Lindsay Moore said:Itoi: That was my very first time going to Nintendo. By the way, did you happen to know why Yamauchi told you to call me over?
Sakamoto: No, I don’t.
Itoi: I only heard about it later, but there was a feature about video games on the late-night show “11PM.” It was a time when video games were under a great deal of scrutiny and viewed much more negatively than they are now. I happened to be on that episode, and I was defending video games. I talked about the way college students used to be criticized for reading manga, and how over time manga was given a right to be a part of society. “Games are criticized the same way now,” I said, “but it’s really no different.”
Yamauchi just happened to have seen the episode, and he said [mimicking Yamauchi] “Damn right!”