EarthBound/Trivia


 * Beam Me Up, Scotty: Giygas never actually said "I feel... h...a...p...p...y...", although many people quote him on this. He said "I'm h...a...p...p...y..." and "I feel... g... o... o... d..." but he never actually said "I feel... h...a...p...p...y...".
 * Crack is Cheaper: This is really all there is to say on the matter. Once more for emphasis: The game's CARDBOARD INSERT was put up for over $100.
 * Follow the Leader: The Tengi Makyou/Far East Of Eden, which shares this series offbeat humour, with hilarious writings, taking place in a fictional Japan based on exagerrated 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. It unfortunately shares its No Export for You status.
 * Keep Circulating the Tapes: One of the most infamous and bemoaned examples in gaming, generally attributed to being mired in legal issues as a result of background music with blatant samples of The Beatles, Our Gang, and Ric Ocasek, and an enemy that was inspired by the work of Salvador Dali. As a result, even used boxless copies of the game go for astronomical prices on eBay.
 * No Export for You: 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 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.
 * Screwed by the Network: One of the most egregious cases in gaming. Only one third of the entire series ever made it to American shores, and the infamous marketing campaign ("this game stinks" was the marketing slogan) likely put a dent on sales. Even in Japan this seems to be the case; there it's even stranger, since several Nintendo bigwigs, including president Satoru Iwata, were directly involved in the game and are still tight bros with Itoi, so it can't be that that Nintendo of Japan at least are deliberately screwing the game over.
 * Word of Gay: Tony, confirmed by Itoi here.