EarthBound Quotes

“The Runaway Five's obvious influence is The Blues Brothers. During localization, their black and white suits were made more colorful to avoid legal action from Universal Pictures or the film's producers. When I told my wife Aviva about this, she admitted she had never seen The Blues Brothers film. Having grown up on a steady diet of Saturday Night Live-spawned movies, I told her that her innocence here was blasphemous. That night, we marveled together at James Brown's hair.”
― Ken Baumann, EarthBound

“Rarely in the realm of the flesh have I been as prepared as I am in almost all video games: I obsessively check drawers, pilfer medicine cabinets, steal supplies, craft items and load up at the shop.”
― Ken Baumann, EarthBound

“My thirteenth birthday, Scott’s upstairs bedroom, both of us snorting dainty stripes of crushed Ritalin and playing Super Smash Bros. in floating yogic trances until dawn.”
― Ken Baumann, EarthBound

“To infiltrate Belch’s factory, you must first learn the password (easy enough) and also learn something much more elusive: something called patience. Scott and I struck our heads over and over again with our controllers and threw them against the TV screen while we tried to figure out how to get in the damn factory door. Luckily, the EarthBound Player’s Guide tipped us off: You have to stand in front of the door—which is obscured by the early-era video game style waterfalls—and not touch a single button for three minutes. I can understand how humans landed on the moon, but I cannot understand how anyone figured this out on their own.”
― Ken Baumann, EarthBound

“If we were to take EarthBound's early hours as material evidence of Shigesato Itoi's impressions of American culture, we would have to consider cruel parents, small-town gangs, abusive cops, weak-willed politicians, usurious property owners, and murderous religious cults as the case.

This does not seem inaccurate.”
― Ken Baumann, EarthBound