History of EarthBound Rumors 

Imagine being a psychic and the first thing your client asks is if Mother 3 will ever get translated

Earthbound Re-entry would’ve been cool and all, but Luigi’s Pie Factory would’ve been the goat

I love Mother, I love Earthbound, but man, being an international Mother fan means inhaling large amounts of copium just to not go insane.

i'm imagining the "Dr. Andonuts" door to just be a weird, non-euclidean portal to his lab from the second game.

honestly it'd be so funny for Nintendo to start a direct with an Earthbound announcement, "A certain beloved RPG is finally coming to the Nintendo Switch..." gameboy advance startup jingle appears on screen, and as the fans anticipate something great No we're localizing Mother 1+2 sorry guys

as a MASSIVE fan of contact and Mother seeing the doctors sprite was trippy af cause I hear no one talk abt that.

Homie said "I'm finna drop the hottest 30 minute piece of mother content this year"

Nice to see you back again. Another popular rumour was that Porky was originally gonna die in Earthbound 64/Mother 3, mainly because of unused sprites showing him inside a broken mech.

Knowing now that earthbound USA is finally starting to come out is surreal

I've wanted to know more about the, 'Ruined Onett" image. It's by far my favorite gaming mystery. How would it have fit in? Why? What happened? A flashback for the Leder reveal? Some opening? A tie-in to EarthBound? I need to know!

It’s interesting that the BrownieBrown image featured a man with a Darth Vader mask because the Masked Man is clearly based on Darth Vader.

11:04 THANK YOU FOR DEMONSTRATING THAT GIYGAS UPSIDE DOWN LOOKS LIKE HIS MEWTWO FORM

I had a dream that SSBU2 Released and it had a dedicated mode where you dodge Giygas' attacks as long as possible

you're telling me that "My uncle who works at nintendo" isn't a valid historical source!?

Ugh I remember the 2016 mother 3 rumors. Pain 😞

I want Luigi's Pie Factory + Waluigi's Taco Stand on Switch

At 5:19, you can hear Monkey talk about the Brownie Brown blog posts and the possibility of a future video about it. This is a reference to how he is actually still alive, and enjoys to create content.

Silksong fans: we are the most neglected videogame fans. Mother 3 fans: Hold my fanmade english translation.

"Kraken(Child's Rendition)" would be a good title imo

Honestly what Ive always loved about the Mother series is its esoteric status, the fans and their endless quest is what made it great for me.

I remember I had an old friend who claimed that older plans for Mother 3 tied in a lot more to M2, including stating that the Dark Dragon was originally supposed to be Giygas and Flint was originally going to be a grown-up Ness. I know it'sn ot true but he really seemed to believe it, so ???

that "hulk funko pop is bigger than the rest" bit hit me like a flashbang, was not expecting an OneyPlays reference in this video. Mega based

I keep coming back to this video, its really good

Say it with me everyone, "THE HULK FUNKO POP IS BIGGER THAN THE REST"

It's on the thumbnail but no ones talking about it but damn I love Contact, it's a nice game and it's pretty short, and it have great music, even if it wasn't the topic of the video I'm always happy to randomly see stuff about that game I'm still very sad it failed and never got a sequel, the ending is stupidly open and it was for sure designed to let a sequel happen

he cooked.

I stayed home because I got sick today. I love earthbound and it will always be my favorite game of all time. When I saw this video was just released, i audibly said “oh my god, this is awesome!” There aren’t enough earthbound videos out there. Keep doing great!! Fuzzy pickles! ✌️

the monke is back

He's back yes

I know this is only one part of the video, but I think Itd be cool and possible for Gigue to be in smash. His special could turn him into giygas and it'd slow everyone down and start spraying out random particles that arent any particular shape

I feel like Mother 3's localization, if/when real, will just totally be dropped out of no where :D like no warning, no breadcrumbs leading us to it. It's just announced and dropped kinda out of nowhere.

this video was so good... you're such an underrated content creator omg

Everytime Rogers claims to have a leak I remind everyone about the Mother 3 incidents. "Unprofessional punk" sure is a set of words that could be used to describe someone.

im really glad your channel grew to the amount i was expecting at the time. Still remembering when you had only 100 subs. Great job my dude, love your stuff!

Thanks for more Mother 3 edutainment!

You’re back! :D

Oh hey you're back

27:56 i remember this one i was so hyped

Great and fun video. I'm surprised it actually cleared up some misinformation for me since like the "won't be released due to controversy" rumor. That's what sucks about rumors. Some just get picked up into the public consciousness and become accepted as fact, even when it's so easy to disprove. (like Kimba the white lion was the original Lion King). Also I loved the original assets made for this video. But yeah, the most important takeaway from this video is that the Hulk Funko Pop is Bigger than the rest.

Good to see you back. Honestly I like rumours even when they seem obviously false. I believed year of Luigi 2 was gonna come this year… oh boy was I wrong.

i shouldn't have giggled at 25:02 lmfao 😭

My god 5k subscribers already! I dont know why but youtube suddenly stopped recomending your videos and now I found you again. Im happy this great channel is geting the atention it deserves!

What I love about your videos is the growth youve obviously had over the years. I've been watching since the Michael Jackson one and the quality has grown from just being creepy or disturbing, to being having more of a modern internet twilight zone cautionary tales vibe. I LOVE that. Could make an anthology series with all the videos.

He's back!

Dude that transition to the outro was SMOOTH

Great video as usual, awesome music choice at 9:56 btw I thought Vsauce took over your vid for a second.

I misread the title as “earthbound runners” instead of “earthbound rumours” so I thought that it might have been a speedrunning history video. My brain is broken.

Melee's mewcomer should've been Luigi's Pie Factory, change my mind

One thing to note though that it was VERY possible that the main team for N64 Mother 3 was Lucas Claus Flint and Boney.

Pero que video tan genial.

I am happy that you returned

I feel like for my own health I have to remind myself that that skater guy supposedly owning a Mother 64 demo cart is false, not only because there was simply no evidence of it but also because few things make my blood boil more than collectors who are NOT preservationists and refuse to dump their ROMs just to ensure their copy retains its """value""".

27:46 THANK YOU! 👏👏👏

My goat has returned

being a mother fan comes with its downsides, (being ravenous for any hint of a rerelease or new game or localization) and its upsides,

(sees the professor from Contact on the thumbnail) This gonna be good. Of course, to be fair, Contact's a good experimental DS game from some of the developers of Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (yes, THAT Moon RPG which Toby Fox loves so much), but it suffers from the old "It looks like an action-RPG, but I'm not allowed to button-mash to attack like a sane person" problem. Then again, it also suffers from the FF2 level-up system being applied in an action-RPG, and the stomach meter. Yes, I have a copy. Also, all that, and nobody mistook any Ni no Kuni games that suspiciously resembled the Mother games AS Mother games?

Guygus looks like a Dragon ball Z character in mother 1

How the hell are you still at 5k subs, that's actually insane how underrated you are

I caught that oneyplays reference. Based

Wasn't expecting a random ass oneyplays reference in this video but I'll take it

27:48 Nice Oneyplays reference

I for one am happy that Mother 3 isn't officially localized since it means I can get it in english for FREE on any hardware that can emulate a GBA.

oh good your back youre

seeing that vader guy, i wonder if that subtly influenced the mother 3 story? claus' tale parallels darth vader pretty clearly

Funny how I didn't get into Mother/Earthbound until 2018, 2 years after the supposed hypest rumors.

Giygas could work as a stage in Smash Bros

Hello, obsecure Smash lore expert here, Lucas main and MOTHER3 fan, Lucas was ALSO supposed to replace Ness in brawl. according to Sakurai, when he was deciding the roster in 2005, he learned of the decision of to not localize it, and so decided to keep Ness in for everyone else. In an alternate timeline where MOTHER3 was released in the west, Ness might've not made in into Brawl.

To let me think you mentioned contact is probaly the closest as we ever got to an earthbound like game during thr ds era. But it was developed by another studio than brownie brown. Alought it would planed to have the same sprite style in a ds game that didnt came out either.

I know that most of those rumors are fake but at least I'm happy to see that Mother 3 was at least referred officially as Earthbound 2 even though it was a joke

I know that my comentary has nothing to do with that video but Man. I have a super creepy mandela effect about the video that you have talked about deltarun chapter 2. I remembered that the video was posted 9 months ago but then i realize that it was posted just 2 months ago.

I was born 2 days after mother 3 came out

Guys my dad works at Nintendo and he says he had the E3 Prototype of Mother 3 very real and true

Emily Rodgers, now there’s a name I haven’t heard in awhile 😅

Haha, see you "soon" too...tho that was a bit threatening...wait who's standing outside my window-

the rumor of all: Doorknob was made to symbolize the downfall of Lucas' life.

Hey maybe we'll get it for the 20th anniversary...right?

Okay but do you think Itoi knows the Hulk Funko Pop is bigger than the rest?

wait…they announced gb and gba for the switch this february direct… _gasp_ *MOTHER 3 WORLDWIDE RELEASE ON THE SWITCH??!?!?!? :OOOO*

Pretty sure the Giygas leak is implying Porky in smash, not Giygas. Giygas would have probably been the final smash or stage inclusion

When are we gonna get luigis pie factory

Any link to the fishcam website?

(19:08) This isn't an rumor its a semi pretty well known fact. Similar to how Lucas was originally planned to replace Ness in the roster for Smash Melee in order to promote MOTHER 3's N64 version, during Brawl's development Masahiro Sakurai legitimately thought MOTHER 3 would be localized for the western audience by the time Brawl would come, so he decided to cut Ness from Brawl's roster for Lucas as well. This is one of the main reasons why Lucas has such an similar moveset to Ness in Brawl (and by extent later smash games), because he was meant to replace and why waste a good moveset. Later in Brawl's development Sakurai learned that MOTHER 3 wouldn't be getting an localization any time soon, so to not alienate western MOTHER fans with a character from a game they can't even officially play over a game they he added back Ness along with Lucas. Essentially if MOTHER 3 N64 was never cancelled and MOTHER 3 GBA had a localization back when it first released in Japan, then its a huge bet that we wouldn't see Ness back in Smash Bros until Smash Ultimate with it's everyone is here gimmick

I really, _really,_ hate that lying rumor-monger Emily Rogers.

Where can I find the n-dude blog posts? Been trying to look for them but can't seem to find em

This is just a really depressing display of how desperate Mother fans are for a new game

I have contact :D it's made by one of my favorite game devs Suda51

People just needed to accept that no one else really cares about the franchise

what does Itoi even do as work?

where is the fish tank website??

i need help. PLEASE SOMEONE GIVE ME THE LINK TO WATCH THE FISH

EarthBound: Re-Entry sounds like it was made up by someone who knew nothing about the game and just assumed it was about space travel or something

It’s funny watching this JUST AS Mother 3 has released on NSO in Japan. Mother fans always were the desperate types.

Vsauce?

I wonder if they translated Mother 3 yet but just haven't released it.

TIL Hitler was born on 4/20 Blaze it

Man, Mother fans are so weird, I love them.

Can we get a chain of replies saying "porky for smash 6"

If theres anything in Mother 3 that would be troublesome, i think it would be the Magypsies. I dont think it would've been an issue when the game first came out in Japan, but nowadays i can very easily see the PC babies throwing a hissyfit about it. How do I know this? Because I've seen the EXACT same thing happen in a certain manga series that I love.

This is nothing compared to the FNaF fandom

*Promosm*