Out of all the story related changes cut from the final version of Mother 3, this one always sticks with me. I have to wonder why they changed the end of chapter 7 to the Masked Man just flying off instead. Maybe they thought him being pushed to his limits and exploding was just too much?

Having the fellas over for a kitty appreciation party. Photo from my collection, 1953.

Pop'n Music is pretty freakin cool…

Spiritually, I am here.

BONUS: Low key one of my fav pieces I've done is this Earthbound 64 fan art.

random EB64 observation: before I played Mother 3, I thought that this (unknown to me at the time) robo dinosaur was in front of some fire background. Only after playing Mother 3, I realised it's the scene of the Mecha-Drago collapsing after fighting Flint, & letting out a single tear before dying…

happy birthday mother 3

Happy 20th Birthday, Mother 3. May the world learn from what you have to say. #MOTHER3 #MOTHER3_20th

Welcome to the World of MOTHER 3

Shogo Sakai has prepared a special short talking about his feelings regarding Mother 3's 20th anniversary! Has English subtitles! www.youtube.com/shorts/2RR7D...

20 years ago today… a ROM for Mother 3 leaked online, a mere day before the game's official Japanese release. Here's a video from the 19th of April 2006, of someone playing this leaked ROM. youtu.be/QmGHZ9ne48A

redrew this pic i saw

Not so fun fact: Flint is mentioned in Lucas' trophy in Smash 4 in Japanese, but isn't in the English version.

Relatedly, I was irritated when Toby Fox was the sole person whose message appeared at the MOTHER 2 anniversary concert. While I'm sure he's a fine person, I thought, "Come on, really?! Do I have to be reminded even here?"

Undertale deserves its accolades, and I'm thankful for the encouragement it's given to independent developers. But it's not for me, and I'm frustrated that it's indelibly linked to the MOTHER series I cherish. I'd like a space to talk about MOTHER without UT/DT creeping in, but that's not possible.

A group of people are trapped in an abandoned facility forced to play deathgames. Is there a reason they're kidnapped? #gamedev #indiegame #rpgmaker #indiedev #visualnovel

Finally, another new demo booth photo of EarthBound 64 at Spaceworld '99 has surfaced! archive.org/details/fami...

During an interview at E3 1997, Benimaru Itoh stated EarthBound 64 was once planned support multiplayer. However, it was scrapped early on due to technical complications. There is nothing viewable of this multiplayer build of the game online. web.archive.org/web/19971011...

It's wild to me that Benimaru Itoh and Toshinao Aoki didn't even get a special thanks credit in the final cut of Mother 3. Even if you despise how the N64 version looked, they still arguably laid vital groundwork for what the character and enemy designs would evolve into.

These aren't new to the internet or anything but I just dug out these Mother 3 screenshots from 1997, I heard Bluesky likes Mother 3

I've uploaded something new, check out the story of how the EB64 community helped to preserve lots of EarthBound 64's concept art! youtu.be/EfBawpDCWvg

I've uploaded something new, check out the story of how the EB64 community helped to preserve lots of EarthBound 64's concept art! youtu.be/EfBawpDCWvg

clayman factory from eb64 #Pixelart #Earthbound #Earthbound64 #Mother3 #Animation

eb64 in the style of breath of fire 4 #Pixelart #Earthbound #Earthbound64 #Mother3 #Animation

cmon, Skeleton-T hits his first documented 8-chain in ~30yrs and you couldn't let him have that (https://xcancel.com/ShiromaNavi/status/2012447976019386842)

Please enjoy this nearly three seconds of footage from the original Mother 3, newly captured off of a tape we're working with

Various pieces of EarthBound 64 related artwork drawn by Benimaru Itoh, the game's lead art designer, during E3 1997.

I began playing Paper Mario Master Quest Jr. the other day, it's tough as one would imagine, but it's certainly exactly what I wanted out of a purposely more-difficult replay of the game. The base game is a bit too easy after having played through it more than once…

New video!!! Watch if you're interested in Mother 3, or just translations in general. youtu.be/LyKbGGAw3qk

If i had a nickel for everytime they took something that has nothing to do with sonic, they made a sonic version of said thing, and then said sonic version completely obscures the existence and validity of the original thing outside of Japan, id have at least two nickels

Shoutouts to the Mercari seller who included this drawing with these buttons I bought.

I have another new Mother 3 out for you all. Please watch it, if you'd like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyG9... #MOTHER3

they make cookie dough that's safe to eat raw?

I have another new Mother 3 out for you all. Please watch it, if you'd like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyG9... #MOTHER3

Back sometime around 2012, Nintendo World NY had on display, among lots of merchandise for other Nintendo franchises, some MOTHER series items, including some fan merch. Allegedly, this was from an employee's personal collection, that the other staff allowed for them to temporarily put on display.

I've been playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl a lot lately. I know this isn't a ground breaking revelation, but the single-player content it has makes me more inclined to play it these days over something like Smash Ultimate. I'm getting pretty close to beating every challenge the game has.

maza suri nintendo rokuyon

They swapped around Lucas and Flint's names. Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

Another new video from me: It's about who I think is Mother 3's most underrated character. Enjoy it! Watch it here: youtu.be/rXanHFZxZ8g #MOTHER3

Something interesting I didn't touch upon in my new video: The Claymen design that we can see for the 2002 GBA version of Mother 3 is pretty close to the N64 version's design and not like the final GBA one at all (the only 2002 design with this distinction). At least, I think it's interesting…

Another new video from me: It's about who I think is Mother 3's most underrated character. Enjoy it! Watch it here: youtu.be/rXanHFZxZ8g #MOTHER3

happy 24th birthday to one of my all time favourite albums: humanistic by abandoned pools!

I'm back! And I finally have a new video that I've posted. It's a new analysis on Flint from Mother 3! Shares appreciated :) youtu.be/Jpo92A-ksz4 #MOTHER3

I really hope DYKG remakes this video someday. It's filled with lots of false information and since so much about Mother 3's history has been uncovered and better documented in the time since this was made, I think a new video on it would be a huge improvement.

Here's a behind the scenes thing I'd like to highlight from my video I uploaded yesterday: the N64 Leder featured during a mockup screenshot was collaboratively made between Sam the Salmon & Picto. There was only one image of Leder shared during the EB64 days so this recreation is rather impressive!

Mentioning this here for the sake of brevity: I did sorta forget to talk about the unused elevator dialogue during the "Flint's prototype role" segment of the video, but since it's something that I've talked about it multiple other videos of mine, I don't think it was needed to be mentioned again.

I'm back! And I finally have a new video that I've posted. It's a new analysis on Flint from Mother 3! Shares appreciated :) youtu.be/Jpo92A-ksz4 #MOTHER3

MOTHER 3: Fall of the Pig King for the Nintendo 64 was cancelled 25 years ago today. As a goodbye to the project, a huge discussion between Shigesato Itoi, Shigeru Miyamoto, & Satoru Iwata was released, as well as 24 screenshots from the game and 2 music tracks. #Mother3

there are already multiple conversions of this specific entry available on Switch alone; this is more noteworthy for the fact that Sega's straight up letting D4E drop Puyo Puyo and not just Madou Monogatari oh and it has this hidden ending with drunk Arle