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* [[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...".
* [[Development Hell]]: 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 former president of Nintendo Satoru Iwata, 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.
* [[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.
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** Though at long last, it has been averted. 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.
* [[Screwed by the Lawyers]]: 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.
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: One of the most egregious cases in gaming. Only one third of the entire series [[No Export for You|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 appeared to be the case, although it was finally released for the [[Wii U]]'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 [[Lampshade Hanging]]. Not only that, but two years later, ''Mother 1'' was released as well.
* [[Trope Namer]]:
** Current:
*** [[Eagle Land]]: And, by association, its [[Snowclone]]: [[Eagleland Osmosis]].
*** [[New Age Retro Hippie]]
*** [[Sound Stone]]
*** [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]]
** Former:
*** [[Wackyland]]: Formerly known as [[Magicant]].
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Ness's dog King may have been planned to join him several other times throughout the game besides the beginning part. It's given away by an unused climbing sprite.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [https://wikibound.info/wiki/WikiBound WikiBound] and [http://earthbound.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Earthbound Wikia].
* [[Word of Gay]]: Tony, confirmed by Itoi [http://earthboundcentral.com/2008/06/yes-tony-is-gay-and-mr-saturn-is-innocent/ here.]
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