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Do-It-Yourself Devotion

17 years ago by reidman , Comments Off on Do-It-Yourself Devotion

Note: This is an excerpt from the original Devotion Translation Announcement Webpage.

“We had high hopes for EarthBound, the Super NES version, in the US, but it didn’t do well…You might not know this, but there was a petition in the US, a ‘Please make Mother 3’ petition and it got about 30,000 signatures! After that, we thought “Wow… Earthbound fans are really solid.”Shigeru Miyamoto

In 1995, Nintendo of America released EarthBound into our grubby, teenaged hands. We came for the fart jokes, but we stayed for the zen of a game that was well ahead of its time. Everything about EarthBound was brilliant. What’s more is that everything somehow managed to get better with age. We could go on forever, but Libra has provided us with a delivery system far more efficient than our feeble words – EarthBound Supremacy (you can watch it on the embedded video player to your right).

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