In Real Life

Your Favorite Video Game Characters, Only Now They’re Undead

People often complain that there’s an overabundance of zombie-based video games, or that zombies are the new bacon, overindulged in to the point of nausea. Judging by pieces like Deviant artist Dantemustdie00′s “Sonic Zombies”, perhaps we’re just injecting the undead into the wrong titles.


April 30, 2012
Retro

What The Original Star Fox, Mega Man, Mother And Gradius Would Look Like In HD

YouTube user rickonami has done a wonderful thing. He’s remade the intro to Star Fox on the SNES, only now it’s in fancy HD, and includes some nods to the N64 game.


April 25, 2012
Nintendo

Well Now Nintendo Is Just Being Mean

See this photo? It’s a lovely display from the Mother series, captured by Kotaku friend Matt Hawkins at the Nintendo World Store in New York City.


April 21, 2012
Nintendo

Earthbound, The Trippiest Game In RPG History

Today seems like the perfect day to reminisce about Earthbound, a Japanese role-playing game that is best described as a 16-bit electronic acid trip.


March 17, 2012
News

Five Dead JRPGs That Should Be On Kickstarter

Kickstarter is now officially a thing.

Not that it wasn’t before. Since its launch in 2009, the crowdfunding website has evolved into an extremely effective financing tool for business ventures, creative projects, and auteurs of all kinds. It has facilitated the relationship between creators and their fans, both giving us access to the people who make things we love and allowing more people to make things we love.


February 24, 2012
In Real Life

The Many Samples And Sound-Alikes Of Earthbound

Few games boast soundtracks as bizarre and innovative as Earthound’s, but perhaps the most innovative (and legally troubling) aspect of all is it’s use of sampling and sound-alikes.


January 31, 2012
In Real Life

How To Improve One Of Nintendo’s Best Games? Like This.

Kotaku reader Riccardo whipped up this HD version of Mother‘s opening credits. It, like the game itself, is fantastic. If anything should get you excited about an HD Nintendo gaming system, it’s this.


September 1, 2011
Nintendo

What Makes The Mother Series So Great

They may not be chart-toppers – indeed, the third game has never even been officially released in the West – but the Mother/Earthbound series of role-playing games are some of the most revered and cherished of all Nintendo games (at least among certain clicks).


May 9, 2011
In Real Life

Episode IV: A New Earthbound

This piece, throwing Nintendo’s classic Mother RPG series (known as EarthBound in the West) and the original Star Wars together, is just too damn cute for words (via 4CR).


April 15, 2011
In Real Life

What If Mother Was A Children’s Story?

The Mother (known in the West as Earthbound) series of RPGs can be enjoyed by kids, but also have stuff specifically for adults. Just like a fairy tale.