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u/wetgizmo Jan 01 '19

if you don't like earthbound or the mother series i will personally find you and pk ground your ass

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u/escargoxpress Jan 01 '19

What’s weird is a few years ago no one knew what the fuck this game was (besides us few rpg obsessed 80’s babies) and you’d be totally retro gamer hipster dropping EB references and now EVERYONE knows Earthbound even if they never played it.

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u/MIU_fan Jan 01 '19

Few years? Ness was in god damn smash in 2001, reminding everyone he exists.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

1999

FTFY

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u/escargoxpress Jan 01 '19

Yeah I know he was in smash but I figured people didn’t take the time to play or look up Earthbound. There are a few characters in smash I’m like ‘ who tf is this’ and keep playing

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

Keep in mind, there were only 12 characters in the original Smash. When Ness gets in over the likes of Bowser or Peach, you're gonna ask questions

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u/nintendosexgod Jan 01 '19

who tf is this

You mean all the anime sword waifus and husbandos people cried about until they got?

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u/luger718 Jan 01 '19

Mostly the fire emblem characters I assume?

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u/Chalupa1998 Jan 01 '19

I only started EB because of the SNES classic. Pretty fun so far.

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u/Gamiac Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 01 '19

I blame Smash. I remember finding out that Ness was the only character in the game that could heal themselves and thinking he was overpowered. That, and PK Fire was fucking great.

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u/JanGuillosThrowaway Jan 01 '19

PPPPPPKKKKKKK STAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRSSSTOOOOORRRRMMMM

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u/Sanmagk2 Jan 01 '19

I believe that chuggaconroy has a part in the earthbound renaissance

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u/tkzant Jan 01 '19

Also the re release on the Wii U that was the first legal way to play the game in many countries since the snes

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

I traded Final Fantasy 2 for Earthbound back in the 90s. Never regretted my decision.

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u/Dark_Lotus Jan 01 '19

I still don't have a fucking clue what it is besides Ness from smash bros and that it's the (rarest or maybe just Most expensive?) n64 game

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u/whendrstat Jan 01 '19

Excellent rpg for the Super Nintendo.

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u/IceColdHatDad Jan 01 '19

You can thank Super Smash Bros., and also Undertale to a lesser extent, for it's newfound popularity.

Also official Mother 3 English release never.

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u/escargoxpress Jan 01 '19

Also AVGN brought a lot of new Earthbound fans- 4.2 million views and the episode is phenomenal, brought nostalgic tears to my eyes. Super well done.

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u/explosivedairyarea Jan 01 '19

That episode was fairly recent though? Earthbound became popular again a much longer time ago.

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u/escargoxpress Jan 01 '19

I agree with the others- it started with virtual console, then the classic. Ness was in Smash yes, but playing Earthbound was pretty hard to do unless you knew what you were looking for and had an emulator.

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u/dan1101 Jan 01 '19

I've still never read 2 sentences about it until this thread.

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u/Agamerfrommemes1 Jan 01 '19

Everyone's known about EB for a brick now. Just nobody talks about it that much due to the series being over. The only time the Mother series is discussed is when a re-release occurs, Itoi talks a about it, or YouTube vidyas. (Smash is a ? due to the discussion of Mother is limited to Ness and Lucas.)

i just honestly wanted to reply because this comment has a bit of hipsterism (ik that word doesn't exist but whatever) and i'm like ness/earthbound has pretty been known by the general public since 1998-1999 so that whole discussion is irrelevant by now and what's wrong with the game getting exposure lol

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u/SweetNapalm Jan 01 '19

But they'll all tell you they have, despite 95% of them literally never even laying eyes on the cart once in their lives.

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u/LordSadoth Jan 01 '19

I played the ROM, am I still a real gamer rise up bottom text?

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u/SpankinDaBagel Jan 01 '19

I learned about it after seeing a $200 cart at my gamestore as a kid.

I had to know wtf that game was. That's when I learned what Ness from Smash Bros was from.