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These limited edition piece, like just about everything from Arcade Art, is adorable as can be. However, the Super Smash Brothers fan in me would be constantly resisting the urge to rip the painting off the wall and chuck it at someone’s head. If you want to be one of the brave twelve to put this 6″ x 6″ Mr. Saturn print on your wall, hit up Etsy and make it yours, for $30.

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It seems Earthbound (as its known to us gaijin) really is over. In an obscure interview from Earthbound game designer Shigesato Itoi’s website, dated from July and dug up by Earthbound Central, Itoi interviews a young writer and exchanges some dialogue about his current career as a novelist and the difficulties of writing dialogue for a book versus a game. Buried at the end of a paragraph was this remark:

Itoi: “…but games demand many more lines of dialogue despite the fact that the main characters don’t talk, so I couldn’t keep making them. That’s why I felt deep down after making three [Earthbound games], “Well, that was a neat experience.”

Interviewee: So you’re done with them?

Itoi: Yes, that’s right.

While he has mentioned before that there were no plans for a MOTHER 4, some had hoped that as time went on, there would be a change of heart. Unfortunately, in the three years since he last made a statement, it appears that is not the case.

Sigh. Back to the MOTHER 3 ROM pages I go.

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It’s pretty well known among gamers that Earthbound is a collector’s item. The fact that the SNES version is the only legitimate way to play Earthbound in North America keeps prices high. If the copy in question happens to be factory sealed, look out. One lucky bidder managed to get his or her hands on such a copy for $1,025.01. Do you think the bidder in question will feel any buyer’s remorse if Nintendo ever makes Earthbound available on the Virtual Console for eight dollars?

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