Review: EarthBound Beginnings – A Charming Curio That Mother Fans Will Cherish

​Everybody’s gotta start somewhere.

This review originally went live in 2015, and we’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of EarthBound Beginnings in the Nintendo Switch Online NES library.

If you were an early adopter of EarthBound fanaticism in the West, you likely caught wind of a previous title made for the Famicom. Translated into English and perfectly playable, it oddly never made it to retail release on the NES. And yet, like from some urban legend, a group of fans managed to buy a beta cartridge of the RPG off eBay in 1998 and released the ROM onto the Internet as “EarthBound Zero.”

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