Earthbound (SNES) - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)

"Games are fun! What happened to you?" Is funny but a genuinely heartbreaking line...

imagine going to a hospital and walking up to a nurse and tell them “hey uhm, my friends died how much do i need to revive them?”

This is the absolute best endorsement of Earthbound there is

I played this when I was a teenager and never really understood younger ness meeting older ness. I’m 45 now and midway through this video, I stopped what I was doing and played ball with my 2 year old and we laughed so much. That moment was irreplaceable.

Earthbound's rated K-A because it makes children into adults.

He turned himself into a dungeon. Funniest shit ive ever seen

“YOUR MOM HAS AN OVERSIZED BOX!!!” is too underrated of an avgn joke

Graphically the game looks great. It holds up beautifully after 28 years. One of the best games on the SNES.

As a kid I liked the photo guy for some reason. It was like a nice surprise and seeing all the photos at the end credit made me feel all kinds of emotions.

“YOUR MOM HAS AN OVERSIZED BOX!” Ok, that line was perfect.

Giygas is actually an alien. According to mother 1 you see him as an alien. Only issue is that he is named differently in both mother 1 and mother 2. The story indicates that Giygas was raised by a human couple named maria and george. While maria sang to the baby giygas as if she was its mother, George secretly studied the ailen technology. Learning about PSI. After george escaped, Giygas swore revenge and started conquering multiple planets. Eventually he got so powerful that his body literally couldn’t hold it all and he became the embodiment of pure evil, Unable to think rationally anymore.

Earthbound seems to be a game that's really a reflection of the youths of the programmers who pieced it together, along with their fears and memories. This in turn is a shared memory in their own way for the others who have played it by making them reflect on their own lives now that they are older.

Don't be afraid to do more "positive" nerd episodes James, as this was one of the best ones you have ever done!

One of the best episodes ever.

I’ve always liked to think of Earthbound as a metaphor…or maybe just literally growing up. Giygus is just a metaphor for losing your innocence. The game just makes me feel like a kid again and I love it

My cousin Jonathan passed away a little over a year ago, and one of my great gaming memories is playing Earthbound with him. Earthbound and FFXI were 2 games that I really only could share with him IRL.

James, there is a reason why the Photo Guy appears.... He's actually a time traveller that was hired by Ness as a grown up to record his adventure because Ness forgot to do it himself and was forgetting details. Problem is that the game itself doesn't actually say it.

1995 rating: K-A Todays rating (according to the 3DS eShop virtual console): T i can see why

It should be noted that Giygas's "demonic appearance," when turned upside down, looks suspiciously similar to Giegue, from EarthBound Zero (aka EarthBound beginnings, and Mother 1), which leads many to suspect both of them to be the same being. Edit: this line of thinking, as I have learned, is canonically accurate, as Mother 2's subtitle is "Giegue Strikes Back!"

I’ve probably played this game 4-5 times it’s always a treat