Marcus Lindblom, the man behind EarthBound’s localization. The game was reprogrammed entirely under Iwata’s supervision at HAL in only three months, refining elements along the way to prepare the game for shipment in the summer. In Itoi’s own words, Satoru Iwata “single-handedly delivered the game to completion”. Development of the game was an intense struggle, nearly being canceled after five years of work until Satoru Iwata joined the team in the spring of 1994. The game was originally envisioned on an 8-megabit cartridge, but gradually moved its way on to a 24-megabit cartridge due to the memory needed to store the game’s many sound files and graphics.

Unlike the last game, MOTHER 2 was written in the hiragana alphabet as opposed to katakana to allow a clearer image of spoken words. Many of the initial concepts and ideas proposed by Itoi were far too ambitious for the Super Famicom, one such idea being the main party traveling to outer space. with additional programming done at HAL Laboratories. The game was mainly developed by Itoi’s company APE Inc.

The MOTHER 2 and EarthBound boxes, the EarthBound box being much larger it came with an official Player’s Guide, compared to MOTHER 2′s box which did not!

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