{"id":113822,"date":"2020-06-05T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/anniversary_earthbound_turns_25_in_the_usa_and_a_whole_generation_feels_old"},"modified":"2020-06-05T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:30:00","slug":"anniversary-earthbound-turns-25-in-the-usa-and-a-whole-generation-feels-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/05\/anniversary-earthbound-turns-25-in-the-usa-and-a-whole-generation-feels-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary: EarthBound Turns 25 In The USA, And A Whole Generation Feels Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9b68b700e3558\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9b68b700e3558\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"EarthBound SNES\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9b68b700e3558\/earthbound-snes.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9b68b700e3558\/earthbound-snes.900x.jpg\" alt=\"EarthBound SNES\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>As time continues to march on relentlessly, it&#8217;s time for another significant video game anniversary &#8211; and today&#8217;s is a particularly nostalgic one. It&#8217;s 25 years to the day since Shigesato Itoi&#8217;s lovely <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/earthbound\">EarthBound<\/a><\/strong> first arrived on US shores and gamers in the West got to take on Giygas with Ness and his band of young heroes on the SNES.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture embed right img-\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"NESS\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d6b2b777495c3\/ness.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d6b2b777495c3\/ness.900x.jpg\" alt=\"NESS\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>They grow up so fast.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Yes, the English language version of <strong>Mother 2<\/strong> now has a quarter-century under its belt, and we don&#8217;t know about you, but it&#8217;s making us feel rather&#8230; <em>seasoned<\/em>. The anniversary comes amid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/official_mother_tribute_comic_revealed_more_news_expected_to_follow\">various Mother-related announcements<\/a> coming from Japan, although sadly nothing related to a new entry in the beloved RPG series.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s enduring mix of traditional RPG mechanics in a modern setting blends with brilliant writing, eclectic music and an off-the-wall daftness to give the 16-bit classic a thoroughly unique flavour that really sticks with you. EarthBound didn&#8217;t initially set the world alight&#8211;at least not in sales terms&#8211;but it gained a cult following over the years. The fervent desire to see the Japan-only Game Boy Advance sequel localised and released in the West has become a gaming in-joke these days, to the point where it&#8217;s groan-worthy to even mention it. One of the perks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/reggie_is_glad_he_no_longer_has_to_deal_with_people_asking_him_about_mother_3\">ex-Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aim\u00e9&#8217;s retirement<\/a> was apparently to have escaped the perennial <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/mother_3\">Mother 3<\/a><\/strong> questions!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we Europeans had to wait until Nintendo officially released EarthBound on Wii U&#8217;s Virtual Console in <em>2013<\/em> (unless you were an intrepid importer of NTSC goodies), with the NES original localised and released for the first time in the West two years later as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/earthbound_beginnings\">EarthBound Beginnings<\/a><\/strong>. So, round these parts SNES EarthBound is only about seven years old.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ah, that makes us feel better!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Share your memories of this great game in the comments below.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As time continues to march on relentlessly, it&#8217;s time for another significant video game anniversary &#8211; and today&#8217;s is a particularly nostalgic one. It&#8217;s 25 years to the day since Shigesato Itoi&#8217;s lovely EarthBound first arrived on US shores and gamers in the West got to take on Giygas with Ness and his band of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}