I came to EarthBound embarrassingly late. While other kids were experiencing it in 1995 when it launched in North America, I was busy with more “mainstream” SNES titles—your Final Fantasies, your Chrono Triggers, games that all my friends were playing and talking about. EarthBound wasn’t even on my radar, lost in the shuffle of a particularly packed year for RPGs. It wasn’t until 1998, during the twilight years of the SNES when the N64 was…
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