They could come and say, you know, because there's the actual organization The Red Cross who uses that as their symbol. Then we had to take out the red crosses on the hospitals because we knew that was sort of questionable even at that time. But when it came to visual or textual references, we did definitely look at it and say "Okay, the artwork on the truck looks a little bit too much like the Coca-Cola logo, we need to change that." The music was actually already pretty much done. I didn't really do anything with the music. Everything in the English version is coffee-based.The other thing we did try to do - and we weren't always 100 percent successful - was tone down a lot of the references to intellectual property. We had to take out references to alcohol. That was one of the more difficult things to do.
and turn it into something everybody here would play and understand.
I had to take an outsider's view of the U.S. is like from the outside - someone who, obviously, isn't American. The thing that's really weird about Earthbound is that I was trying to translate someone's view of what the U.S. Lindblom: The biggest challenge we had in a lot of ways was how to handle the cultural references. Wired: Could you talk about some of the difficulties you had in localizing EarthBound? That helped take some of the sting out of the sales figures, but nothing could change the fact that the game was viewed as a "miss" within the company. I was, at least, personally and professionally satisfied that the reviewers acknowledged the game's sense of humor. So it was disappointing, especially after working really hard during a short development window, to see the game under-perform. Today, you have to spend upwards of $150 to buy an original cartridge on eBay (and much more if you want the strategy guide and box). As with all cult classics, EarthBound's reputation took a while to develop. Those players who did take the plunge found a game full of endearing characters, ridiculous jokes and bizarre situations written by popular Japanese writer Shigesato Itoi. It carried a $70 price tag thanks to Nintendo's decision to include a large-format strategy guide with the game in order to help players navigate its wacky, unpredictable storyline.Īll told, Nintendo sold less than 150,000 copies of Earthbound. yet, and those few RPG players who did exist were content with flashier games like Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy VI. Role-playing games weren't very popular in the U.S. Translated from the Japanese game Mother 2 and released on the Super Nintendo in June 1995, EarthBound had a lot of things going against it. Which is surprising, considering Nintendo never sold many copies of it. Spend a few minutes perusing the mountains of fan art, videos and tributes on fan sites like EarthBound Central or, and you'll see that the classic role-playing game Earthbound has an extremely dedicated fan base.
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