Despite my status as an American who lives in Japan and always enjoys the latter's take on life in the former, I have never played any of Nintendo's Mother trilogy of video games. In fairness to me, EarthBound (aka Mother 2) had one of the most notoriously awful ad campaigns of the 90s which is really saying something.
For those who did play EarthBound when it came to American shores 30 years ago this month, the impact was immediate. Host Bob Mackey chats with Reid Young, Charlie Verdin, and Everdraed—all of Fangamer—to explain EarthBound's enduring popularity three decades later.
Description: Good Giygas, EarthBound is 30 years old!? Yes, and because we gave this cult SNES RPG the standard Retronauts treatment nearly a decade ago, this time around, we'll be taking a slightly different approach. To celebrate three decades of EarthBound greatness, on this follow-up episode we're digging into the fandom behind the game, and the communities that rose in the wake of its unceremonious 1995 launch. So this week, join Bob Mackey, Reid Young, Charlie Verdin, and Everdraed (all of Fangamer) as the crew looks back on the dusty message boards of the past and the modest empires that grew from them. You'll never look at a fuzzy pickle the same way again!
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