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Video Games => Video Game Chat => Topic started by: Nintendoobsessed on March 21, 2008, 01:09:04 PM
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It's incrimination. Mother 3 and Mother 1 have been released in Japan. The Earthbound Masterpiece is missing from Brawl. Earthbound is not being released on the Virtual Console. It's time to fight back!
These are your options:
1# Call Nintendo of America:
Known as PK Call'n, Calling Nintendo of America is one of your best options. Simply call the toll free number: 1-800-255-3700, press 0 to speak to a real person, and ask what has happened to Mother 3, where the Earthbound demo in Brawl is, and why no Mother on the Virtual Console.
2# Mail to Nintendo of America:
Best using fan art, mail your questions/complaints to Nintendo of America.
3# Confront Nintendo at a recognized event(E3, etc.)
Find a advertising Nintendo repersentitive. Ask him questions about Mother. You might even find Reggie Fils-Aime. Smack him hard with Mother Questions.
Do what you can to support the Mother series! Call every day! Do not stop calling until Nintendo listens.
(Kudos to Starmen.net, where you can further support Mother)
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We should ask John Hargrave to do this in the style of one of his funny prank calls
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No, we want Nintendo to take us seriously, not as joker's with no real goal.
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Why won't they release them outside of Japan? I'm dead serious here, does anybody know at all? I mean, with the whole "casual" thing at this point, maybe it makes sense to keep it dead (in America), but they could've at least picked up the slack a few years back. Is it an issue of translation? Too many other games like it by other companies? The fact that hippies were enemies and Ness walked around naked in Mother 2? Why do they put so many references to it in the Smash Bros. series if there's been a grand total of one game from the series in America? God help me, WHY?
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NOA took EarthBound's original promotion too literally.
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...What was the promotion? I mean, I know it came with a player's guide, but...
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Why won't they release them outside of Japan?
They must have their reasons as to why they aren't releasing them outside of Japan. Although at this moment, I can't really think of them.
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Since they always release the games at the end of a system's American lifespan, they're afraid the games won't sell well so they don't want to spend the money to make them here.
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Well, they could always release it for the virtual console...
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...What was the promotion? I mean, I know it came with a player's guide, but...
"This game stinks." I know, I had Nintendo Power back when EarthBound came out. To promote the game, the magazine had some scratch-and-smell stickers. One smelled like old pizza. Another like... I think smelly gym socks. And something pungent for the one with the picture of Master Belch on it. I think the Player's Guide had scratch-and-smell stickers too, I don't know since I never got it.
In hindsight, I don't know why the heck they chose to promote EarthBound that way. Maybe it was to make the game seem as weird as possible. I know I found it interesting since the promotion stood out from anything else the magazine had ever done (but then, I was the kid who eagerly snatched up all the super player power whatever cards at the end of some of the magazines).
So, Nintendo seemed enthusiastic about EarthBound at first. Then through disappointing sales, they buried it under the sand.
Although this doesn't explain to me why they later decided to have one issue with two pages of coverage on EarthBound 64. Granted, that's a pitiful amount of coverage, but they recognized the game at least.
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The point is, they must know how much we like it if they put a combined total of two characters, three stages, and multiple other references based on the series in the Smash Bros. games. That, and they can't be blind to all the online gripes about the lack of Earthbound. Maybe they figure if we want it so bad, we'll just import it (of course, they can't recommend that publicly).
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The reason they won't release is it they'll never forgive us for not buying the game with crappy advertisement 14 years ago. Gee, get over it.
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Personally i hate the Earthbound series
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^ If you don't like it, don't post in it's thread. Easy as that.
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Personally i hate the Earthbound series
Dude, what is wrong with you? Lemme guess, you haven't actually played Earthbound, have you? I had the same mentality until I actually played it.
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Dude, what is wrong with you? Lemme guess, you haven't actually played Earthbound, have you? I had the same mentality until I actually played it.
i played Earthbound And I Just Do Not Like it.
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Therefore, you phools can quit arguing about it. And there's no point in popibros1 coming in here just to say he didn't like it.
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Or is there? Maybe we should stop liking EarthBound because popibros1 doesn't like it. Makes sense to me.
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Or someone can create a "Who hates EarthBound?" thread in some forum far, far away from here. EarthBound's not perfect, neither is Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy IV/VI/VII. So some dissent is okay. They're really really good though, so dissent should be intelligent and well-founded. And in some "What did you think of EarthBound" thread instead of a thread like this.
[quick dissent: The level grinding got really annoying really fast. As great as the rest of the game is, it's hard to look past spending two-three hours just to have the required strength to move to the next map. Maybe it's that I made the mistake of trying to get through the game at relatively low levels]
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How dare you say Chrono Trigger isn't perfect?!
:D
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I consider the move Hallation to be more flawed than not. It's exciting, yes, but a real pain. If you can convince me this move has a rightful place in Zeal's move set, I'll agree that Chrono Trigger is perfect.
The Black Omen is a real painful way to end the game in general, really, but after fighting so hard to get to the end, I don't want to have everyone's HP taken to 1 every three turns! 8D
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They feed on the fans' whining! >:(
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I miss out on such gems on the SNES.
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I've actually had very few SNES titles, both times I've owned an SNES.
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I have all the common good ones
Super Mario World
Yoshi's Island
Donkey Kong Country 1-3
etc
I mean I do own over 50 SNES games, but none of them are those expensive must-haves everyone refers to, except Super Metroid.
None of the Final Fantasy games (except Mystic Quest >.>), no Earthbound, no Chrono Trigger, etc.
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Super Metroid's dirt-cheap, bro, looking at eBay just now.
-LD
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^ ...Or the Virtual Console.
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Super Metroid's dirt-cheap, bro, looking at eBay just now.
-LD
Well yeah, but when I finally found it, it was 20 dollars, one of the most expensive SNES games I've bought (That wasn't new back when the SNES initially lived)
When I do get around to getting a Wii, however, I'm going to focus on obscure games I cannot find normally. Mainly, for now, for systems I do not yet own such as Turbografx and Neo Geo.
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When I do get around to getting a Wii, however, I'm going to focus on obscure games I cannot find normally.
...Which normally gain that status from sucking (Sin and Punishment, though... I've heard that's good).
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Sin and Punishment is at the top of my list, in fact.
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...Which normally gain that status from sucking (Sin and Punishment, though... I've heard that's good).
Your logic = failure.
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Pretty much. Since pretty much all the best games are hard to find. That's why they're ... hard to find. Because they're good and people like them. ShadowBrain is 100% wrong.
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Sin and Punishment was awesome but too short.