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** Film/FiveNightsAtFreddys2023 has [[spoiler:[[WebVideo/GameTheory MatPat]]]] play a waiter named "Ness" [[spoiler: as a nod to his [[NeverLiveItDown infamous theory that Ness is]] [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Sans.]]]]
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* TheWikiRule: [[https://earthbound.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The EarthBound Wiki]], [[https://wikibound.info/ English WikiBound]] and [[https://it.wikibound.info/wiki/Pagina_principale Italian Wikibound]]
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** Early English promotional materials referred to Giygas as "[[TomTheDarkLord The Geek]]", which would have been a hell of a NightmareRetardant had they went through with that name.
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** Early English promotional materials referred to Giygas as "[[TomTheDarkLord The Geek]]", Geek]]" (an attempt at Anglicizing his Japanese name, Gyiyg), which would have been a hell of a NightmareRetardant had they went through with that name.
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*** AlmightyIdiot
*** {{Eagleland}} and by association EaglelandOsmosis
*** NewAgeRetroHippie
*** SoundStone
*** YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm
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*** {{Wackyland}}: Formerly known as Magicant
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*** {{Eagleland}} and by association EaglelandOsmosis
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As there's a DummiedOut sprite in the game's code of [[spoiler:Everdred's Ghost]], it's possible that [[spoiler:Everdred really was supposed to die in the game]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** As there's a DummiedOut sprite in the game's code of [[spoiler:Everdred's Ghost]], it's possible that [[spoiler:Everdred really was supposed to die in the game]].
** As there's a DummiedOut sprite in the game's code of [[spoiler:Everdred's Ghost]], it's possible that [[spoiler:Everdred really was supposed to die in the game]].
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* IncidentalMultilingualWordplay: A sign in Threed advertising a hint shop features a pun based on the cry of a horse that works in both English and Japanese. One of the locals in Onett also tells you a pun on "Alps no Shoujo ___ji" (Hai/Iie) in the Japanese version, or "A Beatles Song, ___terday" (Yes/No) in the English version.
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** In making ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', director Domee Shi has stated that the look of her film was inspired by this game and others like it.
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** Not in its initial release, but many people -- fans of the series or not -- are considering buying a Wii U for the sake of its Virtual Console port.
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** Not in its initial release, but many people -- fans of the series or not -- are considering considered buying a Wii U (and later an SNES Classic) for the sake of its Virtual Console port.
** This game was a major selling point for the SNES Classic.port.
** This game was a major selling point for the SNES Classic.
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* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: Ness was playable in all three ''Smash Bros.'' games before ''[=EarthBound=]'' was released in Europe's Virtual Console. He doesn't have as many spoilers as Lucas does, though.
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* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: Ness was playable in all three ''Smash Bros.'' games before ''[=EarthBound=]'' was released in Europe's Virtual Console. He doesn't have as many spoilers as Lucas does, though.
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** ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' do this quite a lot, on account of Creator/TobyFox being a huge fan of the ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' trilogy. It even takes up a dedicated folder on the former game's Shout-Out page.
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** ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' do this quite a lot, on account of Creator/TobyFox being a huge fan of the ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' trilogy. It even takes up a dedicated folder on the former game's Shout-Out page.
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* WordOfGay: Tony, confirmed by Itoi [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2008/06/yes-tony-is-gay-and-mr-saturn-is-innocent/ here.]]
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* WordOfGay: Tony, confirmed by In a 2003 interview, Itoi [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2008/06/yes-tony-is-gay-and-mr-saturn-is-innocent/ here.]]stated]] that even though it isn't outright stated in-game, he wrote Tony as a gay character, simply because he himself had a few gay friends and wanted to reflect the fact that gay children like Tony existed in real life.
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* NewbieBoom: The ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' fandom got a sudden surge of new members when the game ''finally'' got rereleased on the Wii U. At one point it was ''the'' most downloaded Virtual Console game on the Wii U, which resulted in many new comers to the series, with some being people who likely never heard of the game at that point. This has notably caused some friction between [[OldGuardVersusNewBlood those who were in the cult fandom before it gained a wider audience]], thanks to the fact that these newer audiences were either unaware of or weren't ingrained into the game's prior status as a SacredCow, leading to a good deal of HypeBacklash from people who were expecting the game to be genuinely perfect, with this effect bleeding over into perception of ''VideoGame/Mother3'' as well. Nowadays, while reception of both games still remains skyscrapingly positive, they're no longer viewed as the absolute pinnacles of RPG design that they were once treated as; this was most heavily represented by WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's highly praised review of ''[=EarthBound=]'', which took an overall positive view of the game, but spent a good amount of time pointing out faults that even old fans came to agree were legitimate.
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* NewbieBoom: The ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' fandom got a sudden surge of new members when the game ''finally'' got rereleased on the Wii U. At one point it was ''the'' most downloaded Virtual Console game on the Wii U, which resulted in many new comers to the series, with some being people who likely never heard of the game at that point. This has notably caused some friction between [[OldGuardVersusNewBlood those who were in the cult fandom before it gained a wider audience]], thanks to the fact that these newer audiences were either unaware of or weren't ingrained into the game's prior status as a SacredCow, leading to a good deal of HypeBacklash from people who were expecting the game to be genuinely perfect, with this effect bleeding over into perception of ''VideoGame/Mother3'' as well. Nowadays, while reception of both games still remains skyscrapingly positive, they're no longer viewed as the absolute pinnacles of RPG design that they were once treated as; this was most heavily represented by WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's highly praised review of ''[=EarthBound=]'', which took an overall positive view of the game, but spent a good amount of time pointing out faults that even old fans came to agree were legitimate.
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** PalmtreePanic (bottom-left)
** PlayerParty (3[[superscript:rd]] row)
** SoundStone
** TempleOfDoom (top-left)
** BlobMonster
** BubblegloopSwamp (row 4, column 2)
** BuildLikeAnEgyptian (top-left)
** PalmtreePanic (bottom-left)
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: One of the most infamous and bemoaned examples in gaming, [[EpilepticTrees generally attributed to]] being mired in legal issues as a result of background music with blatant samples of Music/TheBeatles, ''[[Film/TheLittleRascals Our Gang]]'', and [[Music/TheCars Ric Ocasek]], and an enemy that was inspired by the work of Creator/SalvadorDali. As a result, fans had to content themselves with a [=ROM=] of the game '''or''' track down an original cartridge -- which, due to intense demand and limited supply, usually didn't (and still don't) go for less than $200 outside of garage sales and such. (That price usually means '''the cartridge itself''', too.) ''Finally'' averted by the 2013 release for the UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole. This is even lampshaded by Nintendo's press release, which says "You are not dreaming - This is Real".
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: One of the most infamous and bemoaned examples in gaming, [[EpilepticTrees generally attributed to]] being mired due to a mix of the game's commercial failure in legal issues as a result of background music with blatant samples of Music/TheBeatles, ''[[Film/TheLittleRascals Our Gang]]'', the US and [[Music/TheCars Ric Ocasek]], and an enemy that was inspired by the work copious use of Creator/SalvadorDali.EpilepticFlashingLights for PSI attacks, which were too voluminous to manually adjust. As a result, fans had to content themselves with a [=ROM=] of the game '''or''' track down an original cartridge -- which, due to intense demand and limited supply, usually didn't (and still don't) go for less than $200 outside of garage sales and such. (That price usually means '''the cartridge itself''', too.) ''Finally'' averted by the 2013 release for the UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole.UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole (which uses a real-time blur filter to dull PSI effects). This is even lampshaded by Nintendo's press release, which says "You are not dreaming - This is Real".
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* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Because Nintendo of America were suspiciously silent on ''[=EarthBound=]''[='s=] lack of a UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole release despite the ESRB issuing a rating for one (later discovered to be erroneous), fans started to speculate that the game was being [[ScrewedByTheLawyers blocked by legal quandaries]] surrounding its interpolation of American and British rock songs and the presence of an enemy based on Creator/SalvadorDali's ''Art/ThePersistenceOfMemory''. Ultimately however, this turned out not to be the case: the real issue was the EpilepticFlashingLights for PSI effects, which was remedied in the eventual Wii U Virtual Console release with a real-time blur filter.
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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Supposedly, the reason the game had issues being released in the US and Europe is due to copyrights concerning the name of an enemy (Dali's Clock) and two music tracks sounding like Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode (New Age Retro Hippie theme) and The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again (the Skyrunner theme). Apart from toning down the flashes during battles, the Virtual Console release has no changes from the original SNES release.
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* SimilarlyTitledWorks: The game shares its name with [[VideoGame/Earthbound1983 a 1983 PC adventure game]], though that one formats it as the more conventional ''Earthbound''.
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* KillerApp: Not in its initial release, but many people -- fans of the series or not -- are considering buying a Wii U for the sake of its Virtual Console port.
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** Not in its initial release, but many people -- fans of the series or not -- are considering buying a Wii U for the sake of its Virtual Consoleport.port.
** This game was a major selling point for the SNES Classic.
** Not in its initial release, but many people -- fans of the series or not -- are considering buying a Wii U for the sake of its Virtual Console
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* NoExportForYou: The GBA compilation containing this game and its predecessor was only released in Japan, despite the fact that the original version of one game previously had a North American release while the other had a complete English translation that was only scrapped due to the age of the system it was on. There was a brief consideration of releasing it in America, which didn't pan out, due to both the original SNES version's commercial failure stateside and the complexity of the game's code making another localization difficult.
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* NoExportForYou: The GBA compilation containing this game and its predecessor was only released in Japan, despite the fact that the original version of one game previously had a North American release while the other had a complete English translation that was only scrapped due to the age of the system it was on. There was a brief consideration of releasing it in America, which didn't pan out, partly due to both the stateside failure of the original SNES version's commercial failure stateside and version of ''[=EarthBound=]'', partly because the complexity of the game's code making ''[=EarthBound=]'' half's coding (a trait carried over from the SNES release) would've made another localization prohibitively difficult.
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* KillerApp: Not in its initial release, but many people - fans of the series or not - are considering buying a Wii U for the sake of its Virtual Console port.
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* KillerApp: Not in its initial release, but many people - -- fans of the series or not - -- are considering buying a Wii U for the sake of its Virtual Console port.port.
* LateExportForYou: The game didn't see release in Europe until 2013, nearly 20 years after its Japanese and North American releases.
* LateExportForYou: The game didn't see release in Europe until 2013, nearly 20 years after its Japanese and North American releases.
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* NoExportForYou: None of the ''MOTHER'' games have been released in Europe. And of the three ''MOTHER'' games, only this, the second, was released in the US, and even then only once until 2013.
** The GBA compilation containing this game and its predecessor was only released in Japan, despite the fact that the original version of one game previously had a North American release while the other had a complete English translation that was only scrapped due to the age of the system it was on. As above, there was a brief consideration of releasing it in America, which didn't pan out.
** Though at long last, it has been averted when the LateExportForYou thing come into effect. Close to ''nineteen years'' after its release in North America, ''[=EarthBound=]'' finally saw a release in Europe via the Wii U Virtual Console.
*** It should be noted that while for ''MOTHER'' a straight script-dump from the NES prototype to ''MOTHER 1+2'' would be possible, the same could not be said for ''[=EarthBound=]''. After the release of the ''MOTHER 1+2'' partial fan translation, in which the ''[=EarthBound=]'' half went pretty much untranslated, Tomato [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/04/a-look-at-the-mother-2-side/ discussed why he wasn't going to do]] the ''[=EarthBound=]'' half properly: because both are so densely and strangely programmed, in completely different ways no less, that it's pretty much impossible.
*** However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMWUOa46JGI TheZunar123 is currently making]] a ''Mother 2'' translation for ''Mother 1+2'' which can be patched along with Mato's fan translation.
** The GBA compilation containing this game and its predecessor was only released in Japan, despite the fact that the original version of one game previously had a North American release while the other had a complete English translation that was only scrapped due to the age of the system it was on. As above, there was a brief consideration of releasing it in America, which didn't pan out.
** Though at long last, it has been averted when the LateExportForYou thing come into effect. Close to ''nineteen years'' after its release in North America, ''[=EarthBound=]'' finally saw a release in Europe via the Wii U Virtual Console.
*** It should be noted that while for ''MOTHER'' a straight script-dump from the NES prototype to ''MOTHER 1+2'' would be possible, the same could not be said for ''[=EarthBound=]''. After the release of the ''MOTHER 1+2'' partial fan translation, in which the ''[=EarthBound=]'' half went pretty much untranslated, Tomato [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/04/a-look-at-the-mother-2-side/ discussed why he wasn't going to do]] the ''[=EarthBound=]'' half properly: because both are so densely and strangely programmed, in completely different ways no less, that it's pretty much impossible.
*** However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMWUOa46JGI TheZunar123 is currently making]] a ''Mother 2'' translation for ''Mother 1+2'' which can be patched along with Mato's fan translation.
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* NoExportForYou: None of the ''MOTHER'' games have been released in Europe. And of the three ''MOTHER'' games, only this, the second, was released in the US, and even then only once until 2013.
**The GBA compilation containing this game and its predecessor was only released in Japan, despite the fact that the original version of one game previously had a North American release while the other had a complete English translation that was only scrapped due to the age of the system it was on. As above, there There was a brief consideration of releasing it in America, which didn't pan out.
** Though at long last, it has been averted whenout, due to both the LateExportForYou thing come into effect. Close to ''nineteen years'' after its release in North America, ''[=EarthBound=]'' finally saw a release in Europe via original SNES version's commercial failure stateside and the Wii U Virtual Console.
*** It should be noted that while for ''MOTHER'' a straight script-dump from the NES prototype to ''MOTHER 1+2'' would be possible, the same could not be said for ''[=EarthBound=]''. After the releasecomplexity of the ''MOTHER 1+2'' partial fan translation, in which the ''[=EarthBound=]'' half went pretty much untranslated, Tomato [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/04/a-look-at-the-mother-2-side/ discussed why he wasn't going to do]] the ''[=EarthBound=]'' half properly: because both are so densely and strangely programmed, in completely different ways no less, that it's pretty much impossible.
*** However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMWUOa46JGI TheZunar123 is currently making]] a ''Mother 2'' translation for ''Mother 1+2'' which can be patched along with Mato's fan translation.game's code making another localization difficult.
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*** It should be noted that while for ''MOTHER'' a straight script-dump from the NES prototype to ''MOTHER 1+2'' would be possible, the same could not be said for ''[=EarthBound=]''. After the release
*** However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMWUOa46JGI TheZunar123 is currently making]] a ''Mother 2'' translation for ''Mother 1+2'' which can be patched along with Mato's fan translation.
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* ApprovalOfGod: Creator/ShigesatoItoi called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hVuv7mDNqM this]] ''[=EarthBound=]'' tribute video [[https://twitter.com/itoi_shigesato/status/519728956803538945 amazing]].
* BeamMeUpScotty: Giygas sometimes says "I'm '''happy'''" or "I feel '''good'''" during the battle with him, but he never said "I feel '''happy'''".
* ColbertBump: The game's [[VindicatedByHistory initial release]] was without that much fanfare, and it mostly went unnoticed (which helped to contribute to the cartridge's current rarity). [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Four years later, though]]...
* CreatorBreakdown: Shigesato Itoi admitted that Giygas was inspired by trauma brought on by watching the film ''Film/TheMilitaryPolicemanAndTheDismemberedBeauty'' as a child. The developers, when typing in the dialog Itoi wanted Giygas to say, were reportedly brought to tears by the traumatic experience.
* DevelopmentHell: It went through a shorter but just as dangerous version of the trope. The developers struggled to make progress on the game even four years into its development, as it was riddled with bugs and was nowhere near completion. Enter HAL Laboratories president and future Nintendo president Creator/SatoruIwata, who started the game's programming over from scratch, fixing most of the team's problems in a month, and completing its development altogether in just six months. The main caveat of this though is that the game's programming is written in a very unorthodox language, with the coding for the in-game text alone probably being complex enough to program an emulator with.
* DummiedOut:
** The usual selection of unused sprites per SNES RPG standards; a variety of sprites exist that require situations that cannot legitimately exist in game. Most interesting among these is a ghost sprite for Everdred, implying that either [[spoiler: he really did die in the alley]] or he was intended to join the party at some point.
** Unused music, though mostly variants on existing music.
** An unused item, the Video Relaxant (Japanese: Video Drug). Does nothing, but the name is highly suggestive. Another unused probable key item exists in code as well.
** An impossible to (legitimately) achieve ending to a scripted boss fight, the Clumsy Robot. If you could somehow reach it without meeting [[spoiler: the Runaway Five]], the boss would just erupt in smoke instead of the usual ending.
** Although regional differences are numerous, relatively few sprites were dummied, but instead altered. Even the infamous "naked Ness" in [[spoiler: Magicant]] is redrawn to be identical to pajama Ness rather than left unused in the data.
* FollowTheLeader: The ''VideoGame/TengaiMakyou'' series, which shares this series's offbeat humour, with hilarious writings, taking place in a fictional Japan based on exaggerated conceptions by the west. The fourth one even takes place in a fictional America, with hilarious results. The first game appeared after ''MOTHER'' in 1989. Unlike that game, it never lost its NoExportForYou status.
* GodNeverSaidThat: The names of most songs in the game. While some tracks—such as Humoresque of a Little Dog[[note]]the shop theme[[/note]], or Smiles and Tears[[note]]the credits theme[[/note]]—''do'' have official names, most of the names commonly attributed to the game's music tracks are purely fan inventions… hence why "Battle Against a Machine" plays against multiple opponents that are either implicitly or explicitly not mechanical in nature, for example.
* HeAlsoDid: The rock guitar heard in several parts of the game is played by M. D. Seegar. You know him better by his real name, Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto.
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** BlobMonster
** BubblegloopSwamp (row 4, column 2)
** BuildLikeAnEgyptian (top-left)
** PalmtreePanic (bottom-left)
** PlayerParty (3[[superscript:rd]] row)
** SoundStone
** TempleOfDoom (top-left)
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: One of the most infamous and bemoaned examples in gaming, [[EpilepticTrees generally attributed to]] being mired in legal issues as a result of background music with blatant samples of Music/TheBeatles, ''[[Film/TheLittleRascals Our Gang]]'', and [[Music/TheCars Ric Ocasek]], and an enemy that was inspired by the work of Creator/SalvadorDali. As a result, fans had to content themselves with a [=ROM=] of the game '''or''' track down an original cartridge -- which, due to intense demand and limited supply, usually didn't (and still don't) go for less than $200 outside of garage sales and such. (That price usually means '''the cartridge itself''', too.) ''Finally'' averted by the 2013 release for the UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole. This is even lampshaded by Nintendo's press release, which says "You are not dreaming - This is Real".
* KillerApp: Not in its initial release, but many people - fans of the series or not - are considering buying a Wii U for the sake of its Virtual Console port.
* ManualMisprint: The [[InfinityPlusOneSword Gutsy Bat]] is a RareDrop from the ''Bionic'' Kraken, not the regular Kraken as printed in the official guide packaged with the game. The official guide also listed the Broken Antenna (repaired to become Jeff's strongest weapon) as the "Broken Parabolic" found in a gift box, location unknown; in reality it's a rare 1/128 drop from Uncontrollable Spheres.
* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: Ness was playable in all three ''Smash Bros.'' games before ''[=EarthBound=]'' was released in Europe's Virtual Console. He doesn't have as many spoilers as Lucas does, though.
* NewbieBoom: The ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' fandom got a sudden surge of new members when the game ''finally'' got rereleased on the Wii U. At one point it was ''the'' most downloaded Virtual Console game on the Wii U, which resulted in many new comers to the series, with some being people who likely never heard of the game at that point. This has notably caused some friction between [[OldGuardVersusNewBlood those who were in the cult fandom before it gained a wider audience]], thanks to the fact that these newer audiences were either unaware of or weren't ingrained into the game's prior status as a SacredCow, leading to a good deal of HypeBacklash from people who were expecting the game to be genuinely perfect, with this effect bleeding over into perception of ''VideoGame/Mother3'' as well. Nowadays, while reception of both games still remains skyscrapingly positive, they're no longer viewed as the absolute pinnacles of RPG design that they were once treated as; this was most heavily represented by WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's highly praised review of ''[=EarthBound=]'', which took an overall positive view of the game, but spent a good amount of time pointing out faults that even old fans came to agree were legitimate.
* NoExportForYou: None of the ''MOTHER'' games have been released in Europe. And of the three ''MOTHER'' games, only this, the second, was released in the US, and even then only once until 2013.
** The GBA compilation containing this game and its predecessor was only released in Japan, despite the fact that the original version of one game previously had a North American release while the other had a complete English translation that was only scrapped due to the age of the system it was on. As above, there was a brief consideration of releasing it in America, which didn't pan out.
** Though at long last, it has been averted when the LateExportForYou thing come into effect. Close to ''nineteen years'' after its release in North America, ''[=EarthBound=]'' finally saw a release in Europe via the Wii U Virtual Console.
*** It should be noted that while for ''MOTHER'' a straight script-dump from the NES prototype to ''MOTHER 1+2'' would be possible, the same could not be said for ''[=EarthBound=]''. After the release of the ''MOTHER 1+2'' partial fan translation, in which the ''[=EarthBound=]'' half went pretty much untranslated, Tomato [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/04/a-look-at-the-mother-2-side/ discussed why he wasn't going to do]] the ''[=EarthBound=]'' half properly: because both are so densely and strangely programmed, in completely different ways no less, that it's pretty much impossible.
*** However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMWUOa46JGI TheZunar123 is currently making]] a ''Mother 2'' translation for ''Mother 1+2'' which can be patched along with Mato's fan translation.
* ReferencedBy:
** ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has an episode where the main characters eats some weird mushrooms in a forest, and another mushroom ends up growing out of their heads making them get lost. This is referencing the mushroom status effect which messes up the controls for a while the character has a mushroom on his or her head.
** The [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] group LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys is named after The Runaway Five as the three main players are all fans of the game.
** ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' do this quite a lot, on account of Creator/TobyFox being a huge fan of the ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' trilogy. It even takes up a dedicated folder on the former game's Shout-Out page.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Supposedly, the reason the game had issues being released in the US and Europe is due to copyrights concerning the name of an enemy (Dali's Clock) and two music tracks sounding like Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode (New Age Retro Hippie theme) and The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again (the Skyrunner theme). Apart from toning down the flashes during battles, the Virtual Console release has no changes from the original SNES release.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: One of the most egregious cases in gaming. Only two thirds of the entire series [[NoExportForYou ever made it to American shores]], and the infamous marketing campaign ("this game stinks" was the marketing slogan) for Earthbound likely put a dent on sales. Even in Japan this appeared to be the case, although it was finally released for the UsefulNotes/WiiU's Virtual Console in March 2013. However, it was also confirmed that ''[=EarthBound=]'' would ''finally'' be getting a Western re-release on the Wii U Virtual Console -- in Europe too, no less! -- with Nintendo of America engaging in a hearty dose of LampshadeHanging. Not only that, but two years later, ''Mother 1'' was released as well.
* {{Trope Namer|s}}:
** Current:
*** AlmightyIdiot
*** {{Eagleland}} and by association EaglelandOsmosis
*** NewAgeRetroHippie
*** SoundStone
*** YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm
** Former:
*** {{Wackyland}}: Formerly known as Magicant
* {{Tuckerization}}: Due to the long nights he worked to get the game localized, Nintendo of America allowed Marcus Lindblom, the game's localizer, to rename one of the minor [=NPC=]s to "Nico" after his daughter, who had just been born.
* {{Vaporware}}: The ''Mother 1 + 2'' [[UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance GBA]] compilation was advertised to have a Western release, but remained in Japan.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As there's a DummiedOut sprite in the game's code of [[spoiler:Everdred's Ghost]], it's possible that [[spoiler:Everdred really was supposed to die in the game]].
** Ness's dog King has unused sprites for climbing up and down both ladders and ropes. Whether this means that King was planned to spend more time with Ness or simply that the hill west of Ness's home was going to feature ropes and ladders is unknown, and the sprites aren't even properly tied to King's party member data, anyhow.
** One quote by Itoi also indicates that he wanted it to be ambiguous as to whether Ness was really the protagonist of the original ''MOTHER'' -- in the final game, this ambiguity largely doesn't exist and he's fairly clearly a different character.
** Early English promotional materials referred to Giygas as "[[TomTheDarkLord The Geek]]", which would have been a hell of a NightmareRetardant had they went through with that name.
* TheWikiRule: [[https://earthbound.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The EarthBound Wiki]], [[https://wikibound.info/ English WikiBound]] and [[https://it.wikibound.info/wiki/Pagina_principale Italian Wikibound]]
* WordOfGay: Tony, confirmed by Itoi [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2008/06/yes-tony-is-gay-and-mr-saturn-is-innocent/ here.]]
* WordOfSaintPaul: Marcus Lindblom, head of the English translation and localization, finally set the record straight on how to pronounce Giygas' name. [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2013/03/marcus-lindblom-spills-some-earthbound-secrets/ It's pronounced as "Geegus"]] (with hard G's), not "Guy-gus" as it was often assumed to be. (For the record, Gyiyg is pronounced "Geeg", hence the use of Giegue in the first game.)
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Giygas sometimes says "I'm '''happy'''" or "I feel '''good'''" during the battle with him, but he never said "I feel '''happy'''".
* ColbertBump: The game's [[VindicatedByHistory initial release]] was without that much fanfare, and it mostly went unnoticed (which helped to contribute to the cartridge's current rarity). [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Four years later, though]]...
* CreatorBreakdown: Shigesato Itoi admitted that Giygas was inspired by trauma brought on by watching the film ''Film/TheMilitaryPolicemanAndTheDismemberedBeauty'' as a child. The developers, when typing in the dialog Itoi wanted Giygas to say, were reportedly brought to tears by the traumatic experience.
* DevelopmentHell: It went through a shorter but just as dangerous version of the trope. The developers struggled to make progress on the game even four years into its development, as it was riddled with bugs and was nowhere near completion. Enter HAL Laboratories president and future Nintendo president Creator/SatoruIwata, who started the game's programming over from scratch, fixing most of the team's problems in a month, and completing its development altogether in just six months. The main caveat of this though is that the game's programming is written in a very unorthodox language, with the coding for the in-game text alone probably being complex enough to program an emulator with.
* DummiedOut:
** The usual selection of unused sprites per SNES RPG standards; a variety of sprites exist that require situations that cannot legitimately exist in game. Most interesting among these is a ghost sprite for Everdred, implying that either [[spoiler: he really did die in the alley]] or he was intended to join the party at some point.
** Unused music, though mostly variants on existing music.
** An unused item, the Video Relaxant (Japanese: Video Drug). Does nothing, but the name is highly suggestive. Another unused probable key item exists in code as well.
** An impossible to (legitimately) achieve ending to a scripted boss fight, the Clumsy Robot. If you could somehow reach it without meeting [[spoiler: the Runaway Five]], the boss would just erupt in smoke instead of the usual ending.
** Although regional differences are numerous, relatively few sprites were dummied, but instead altered. Even the infamous "naked Ness" in [[spoiler: Magicant]] is redrawn to be identical to pajama Ness rather than left unused in the data.
* FollowTheLeader: The ''VideoGame/TengaiMakyou'' series, which shares this series's offbeat humour, with hilarious writings, taking place in a fictional Japan based on exaggerated conceptions by the west. The fourth one even takes place in a fictional America, with hilarious results. The first game appeared after ''MOTHER'' in 1989. Unlike that game, it never lost its NoExportForYou status.
* GodNeverSaidThat: The names of most songs in the game. While some tracks—such as Humoresque of a Little Dog[[note]]the shop theme[[/note]], or Smiles and Tears[[note]]the credits theme[[/note]]—''do'' have official names, most of the names commonly attributed to the game's music tracks are purely fan inventions… hence why "Battle Against a Machine" plays against multiple opponents that are either implicitly or explicitly not mechanical in nature, for example.
* HeAlsoDid: The rock guitar heard in several parts of the game is played by M. D. Seegar. You know him better by his real name, Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto.
* ImageSource:
** BlobMonster
** BubblegloopSwamp (row 4, column 2)
** BuildLikeAnEgyptian (top-left)
** PalmtreePanic (bottom-left)
** PlayerParty (3[[superscript:rd]] row)
** SoundStone
** TempleOfDoom (top-left)
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: One of the most infamous and bemoaned examples in gaming, [[EpilepticTrees generally attributed to]] being mired in legal issues as a result of background music with blatant samples of Music/TheBeatles, ''[[Film/TheLittleRascals Our Gang]]'', and [[Music/TheCars Ric Ocasek]], and an enemy that was inspired by the work of Creator/SalvadorDali. As a result, fans had to content themselves with a [=ROM=] of the game '''or''' track down an original cartridge -- which, due to intense demand and limited supply, usually didn't (and still don't) go for less than $200 outside of garage sales and such. (That price usually means '''the cartridge itself''', too.) ''Finally'' averted by the 2013 release for the UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole. This is even lampshaded by Nintendo's press release, which says "You are not dreaming - This is Real".
* KillerApp: Not in its initial release, but many people - fans of the series or not - are considering buying a Wii U for the sake of its Virtual Console port.
* ManualMisprint: The [[InfinityPlusOneSword Gutsy Bat]] is a RareDrop from the ''Bionic'' Kraken, not the regular Kraken as printed in the official guide packaged with the game. The official guide also listed the Broken Antenna (repaired to become Jeff's strongest weapon) as the "Broken Parabolic" found in a gift box, location unknown; in reality it's a rare 1/128 drop from Uncontrollable Spheres.
* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: Ness was playable in all three ''Smash Bros.'' games before ''[=EarthBound=]'' was released in Europe's Virtual Console. He doesn't have as many spoilers as Lucas does, though.
* NewbieBoom: The ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' fandom got a sudden surge of new members when the game ''finally'' got rereleased on the Wii U. At one point it was ''the'' most downloaded Virtual Console game on the Wii U, which resulted in many new comers to the series, with some being people who likely never heard of the game at that point. This has notably caused some friction between [[OldGuardVersusNewBlood those who were in the cult fandom before it gained a wider audience]], thanks to the fact that these newer audiences were either unaware of or weren't ingrained into the game's prior status as a SacredCow, leading to a good deal of HypeBacklash from people who were expecting the game to be genuinely perfect, with this effect bleeding over into perception of ''VideoGame/Mother3'' as well. Nowadays, while reception of both games still remains skyscrapingly positive, they're no longer viewed as the absolute pinnacles of RPG design that they were once treated as; this was most heavily represented by WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's highly praised review of ''[=EarthBound=]'', which took an overall positive view of the game, but spent a good amount of time pointing out faults that even old fans came to agree were legitimate.
* NoExportForYou: None of the ''MOTHER'' games have been released in Europe. And of the three ''MOTHER'' games, only this, the second, was released in the US, and even then only once until 2013.
** The GBA compilation containing this game and its predecessor was only released in Japan, despite the fact that the original version of one game previously had a North American release while the other had a complete English translation that was only scrapped due to the age of the system it was on. As above, there was a brief consideration of releasing it in America, which didn't pan out.
** Though at long last, it has been averted when the LateExportForYou thing come into effect. Close to ''nineteen years'' after its release in North America, ''[=EarthBound=]'' finally saw a release in Europe via the Wii U Virtual Console.
*** It should be noted that while for ''MOTHER'' a straight script-dump from the NES prototype to ''MOTHER 1+2'' would be possible, the same could not be said for ''[=EarthBound=]''. After the release of the ''MOTHER 1+2'' partial fan translation, in which the ''[=EarthBound=]'' half went pretty much untranslated, Tomato [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/04/a-look-at-the-mother-2-side/ discussed why he wasn't going to do]] the ''[=EarthBound=]'' half properly: because both are so densely and strangely programmed, in completely different ways no less, that it's pretty much impossible.
*** However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMWUOa46JGI TheZunar123 is currently making]] a ''Mother 2'' translation for ''Mother 1+2'' which can be patched along with Mato's fan translation.
* ReferencedBy:
** ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has an episode where the main characters eats some weird mushrooms in a forest, and another mushroom ends up growing out of their heads making them get lost. This is referencing the mushroom status effect which messes up the controls for a while the character has a mushroom on his or her head.
** The [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] group LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys is named after The Runaway Five as the three main players are all fans of the game.
** ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' do this quite a lot, on account of Creator/TobyFox being a huge fan of the ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' trilogy. It even takes up a dedicated folder on the former game's Shout-Out page.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Supposedly, the reason the game had issues being released in the US and Europe is due to copyrights concerning the name of an enemy (Dali's Clock) and two music tracks sounding like Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode (New Age Retro Hippie theme) and The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again (the Skyrunner theme). Apart from toning down the flashes during battles, the Virtual Console release has no changes from the original SNES release.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: One of the most egregious cases in gaming. Only two thirds of the entire series [[NoExportForYou ever made it to American shores]], and the infamous marketing campaign ("this game stinks" was the marketing slogan) for Earthbound likely put a dent on sales. Even in Japan this appeared to be the case, although it was finally released for the UsefulNotes/WiiU's Virtual Console in March 2013. However, it was also confirmed that ''[=EarthBound=]'' would ''finally'' be getting a Western re-release on the Wii U Virtual Console -- in Europe too, no less! -- with Nintendo of America engaging in a hearty dose of LampshadeHanging. Not only that, but two years later, ''Mother 1'' was released as well.
* {{Trope Namer|s}}:
** Current:
*** AlmightyIdiot
*** {{Eagleland}} and by association EaglelandOsmosis
*** NewAgeRetroHippie
*** SoundStone
*** YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm
** Former:
*** {{Wackyland}}: Formerly known as Magicant
* {{Tuckerization}}: Due to the long nights he worked to get the game localized, Nintendo of America allowed Marcus Lindblom, the game's localizer, to rename one of the minor [=NPC=]s to "Nico" after his daughter, who had just been born.
* {{Vaporware}}: The ''Mother 1 + 2'' [[UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance GBA]] compilation was advertised to have a Western release, but remained in Japan.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As there's a DummiedOut sprite in the game's code of [[spoiler:Everdred's Ghost]], it's possible that [[spoiler:Everdred really was supposed to die in the game]].
** Ness's dog King has unused sprites for climbing up and down both ladders and ropes. Whether this means that King was planned to spend more time with Ness or simply that the hill west of Ness's home was going to feature ropes and ladders is unknown, and the sprites aren't even properly tied to King's party member data, anyhow.
** One quote by Itoi also indicates that he wanted it to be ambiguous as to whether Ness was really the protagonist of the original ''MOTHER'' -- in the final game, this ambiguity largely doesn't exist and he's fairly clearly a different character.
** Early English promotional materials referred to Giygas as "[[TomTheDarkLord The Geek]]", which would have been a hell of a NightmareRetardant had they went through with that name.
* TheWikiRule: [[https://earthbound.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The EarthBound Wiki]], [[https://wikibound.info/ English WikiBound]] and [[https://it.wikibound.info/wiki/Pagina_principale Italian Wikibound]]
* WordOfGay: Tony, confirmed by Itoi [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2008/06/yes-tony-is-gay-and-mr-saturn-is-innocent/ here.]]
* WordOfSaintPaul: Marcus Lindblom, head of the English translation and localization, finally set the record straight on how to pronounce Giygas' name. [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2013/03/marcus-lindblom-spills-some-earthbound-secrets/ It's pronounced as "Geegus"]] (with hard G's), not "Guy-gus" as it was often assumed to be. (For the record, Gyiyg is pronounced "Geeg", hence the use of Giegue in the first game.)
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