Damn someone beat me to it but...
I just had a damn game orgasm after knowing about this.
I don't care about Earthbound. I read everything about the 3 games and it seems like a generic indie rpg. I can see why Nintendo stop making new ones.
Lol, oh rly? Then explain me this, most SNES RPG games were about swords, and magic and shit, EarthBound isn't, not to mention its successor, MOTHER 1 (Also known as EarthBound Zero) was a huge hit on Japan and they were considering releasing to other countries, but for some odd reasons, they didn't.
Mother 3 was successfull after EarthBound, so damn successfull that crazy fans (yes we are crazy) released a 'perfect' Mother 3 un-official english translation.
Can you explain me in how the hell is EarthBound a generic indie rpg game? Nintendo (Shigesato Itoi) stopped making games because, after Mother 3, he clearly said he WASN'T GONNA MAKE ANY MORE MOTHER GAMES.
Not to mention EarthBound was also a huge hit on Japan, but they decided to throw a coin in the air and say ''fuck it'' and release EarthBound outside of Japan, the first official Mother game to ever be released in the US, of course it was a comercial failure, after that they learned from their mistake and since then they have NEVER released another Mother game outside of Japan.