For those of you who have no clue what "Mother 3" is, feel free to beat yourself with a stick.

"Back in the day," Nintendo released one of the quirkiest (and greatest) RPG's to ever grace the Super Nintendo, or any console for that matter.  Earthbound, called Mother 2 in Japan, is one of my favorite games of all time because it's so incredibly unique and original.  Compared to Ye Old Fantasy RPG, Earthbound was quite a breath of fresh air without a cliché in sight.

The battle mechanics were also quite revolutionary for the time, and the dialog was absolutely hilarious!

Anyway, Mother 3 was the sequel to Earthbound and was supposed to be released for the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive.  Since the 64DD was never released, the game slowly faded into oblivion.  I remember eagerly looking through Nintendo Power trying to find new screenshots for the game. 

Here's an ooooold picture of the 64DD that I stole off the original Nintendo website shortly all the way back on December 29, 1997.  Am I hardcore, or what?



Anyway, it appears the game has been resurrected from the dead and will released on the Gameboy Advance.  If it ever comes to US shores, I'll buy a GBA and the game the day it's released!  Here's the SlashDot story...

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/30/179204&from=rss

-b0b
(...w00talicious!)

Is the game retarded, or is the opinion retarded?

-b0b
(...schnap.)

I'm just saying.  Earthbound was a mediocore game at best.  The gameplay was simple and boring, and the storyline was borderline 3rd grade english paper.

How you can possibly compare this game with legends like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI is beyond me.