EarthBound/Trivia: Difference between revisions

* [[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 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.

*** 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 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 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.