![]() Inviting more people to engage critically with games, trying together to explain the hold games have on us, is my Trout-flavored Yogurt. To remedy that, besides publishing podcasts and essays online, I teach a Video Game Studies class around EarthBound Beginnings at the public high school where I work. Not many players have noted its resonances with Shakespeare and Proust, beyond better-acknowledged references to The Beatles or Kurt Vonnegut. I’ve dedicated untold hours to the playful study of the 1994 SNES sequel, EarthBound. ![]() To say I’m biased is like saying people in big cities are fond of Strawberry Tofu. Anyone interested in video games, relational life-lines, and the vagaries of time and taste should do the same. ![]() Decades later, as EarthBound Beginnings, it officially released on the Wii U and Switch virtual consoles, and at the prompting of an old friend, two years after becoming a father myself, I finally played it. MOTHER came out for the Famicom in 1989, two years after I was born.
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