Warning! This article may contain spoilers! As you may remember, 1999 was when I was introduced to Earthbound. Right around this time, development was in full swing for the sequel tentatively titled Earthbound 64. Details about the project were fairly scarce, though there were mentions of a pig-like army, dinosaur-like creatures, [Read More]
An ordinary high school student named Marty Hall has a dream one night where the evil General Hood, a parody of G.I. Joe’s Cobra Commander, abducts his crush Samantha. After a devastating defeat at the hands of both Hood and his lackeys, Marty receives aid from the mysterious Wizard in [Read More]
I used to spend my Thursday nights at a friend’s place to play Dungeons & Dragons with the crew. We’d stand in a dark room around a pentagram drawn on the floor, dressed in blood-red robes, chanting ominously in Latin. Adam would walk into the center of the pentagram where [Read More]
Most games in the RPG genre require players to level their characters up in order to make actual progress. A majority of the time, this requires going out and looking battles, through either random encounters like most Final Fantasies or scripted encounters like Earthbound. Nothing is ever really said about [Read More]
Back in 1999, I was introduced to Super Smash Bros., a fighting game for the Nintendo 64 featuring a cast of familiar Nintendo stars. One wasn’t however – Ness, a kid armed with a bat, yo-yo, and a host of psychic abilities from an RPG known as Earthbound. This wasn’t [Read More]
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