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The SNES era was a doozy of a hitter for nostalgic classics, from Super Mario World, Final Fantasy VI to Donky Kong Country. Quite possibly, what's even most remarkable was the length and quality of the gameplay and the ways that developers had to get creative to permit their games to fit on the limited cartridge-based medium to begin with. Overall, it was a truly amazing generation to spend our childhoods growing up in and for many it was also a much more innocent time during the pre-internet and internet version 1.0 days.

This was one title I recall when growing up, with strange/quirky advertising in Nintendo Power that somehow it's claymation-inspired promotional art somehow slipped my radar. It wasn't until the Nintendo eShop release in 2014, having recently graduated and bored at a tech job, I decided its innocuous asking price provided a ripe opportunity to revisit this immediate classic.

"If I could describe Earthbound in few words, the words that come to mind is that it's definitely 90s, with an unmistakable quirkiness and charm witnessed in very few other games. Moreover, the 2D sprites lended to its cute and charming story and ultimately, its aesthetic."