EarthBound/Mother fans know who Dr. Andonuts is. The rest of you don't. If you're one of those in "the rest," I can tell you in brief that Dr. Andonuts is a major character in one of Nintendo's most beloved and maltreated series. Ness and Lucas from Super Smash Bros. Brawl are from EarthBound/Mother. Yeah, those games.
While wandering around the Nintendo booth today, looking for cat-scraps, I noticed that there was an office with the name "Dr. Andonuts" on it. As a huge EarthBound/Mother fan, I appropriately freaked out and demanded an explanation. Luckily, the always prepared Conrad Zimmerman was there to capture the event with his digital camera. He didn't get me accosting the courteous and lovely Nintendo reps about the whole thing, but he did capture my annoying attempts to get answers out of this guy.
What do you make of this whole Andonuts mystery? Is Nintendo up to something, or are they just getting our hopes up for the f*ck of it?
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As much as I'm praying for what Caspulex said, it's most likely PixelSith's guess: Nintendo is trying to steal the crown of Corporate Troll from Valve.
As much as I would LOVE this to be some sort of hint that we have EarthBound/Mother stuff incoming, I'm guessing this is more Nintendo being 'cute' about where its E3 reps meet and confer when not on the show floor. Kind of a 'behind the scenes' tech thing. Dr. Andonuts is a Nintendo character that fits that whole description, so they may have just been using the name to indicate the room's function.
Regardless, that company is a bunch of fucking teases.
Considering there's no way they'd ever publish Mother 3 in America or Earthbound on VC (copyright issues on the latter (the game's music, specifically), and copyright issues combined with not so subtle socialism and other major no nos for children in games in the former), I imagine it's them being cute.
Which is fine. I don't understand why Earthbound fans are still wound up. We have Earthbound. We have a fan translation of Mother 1 that's fantastic. We have a fan translation of Mother 3 which is beyond fantastic. A sequel is nigh impossible. I'm perfectly satisfied with the state of the Mother world.
After all of these years of waiting for any form of localization, I highly doubt that they'll be giving it to us now. Just be happy with the fan translation.
On the other hand, if the did announce a Mother collection for any system, I would immediately go into cardiac arrest.
Nintendo once released a statement saying that one of the major reasons Mother 3 wasn't localized was lack of demand. I think they're just pulling you now.
Pretty funny how uncomfortable you made that guy. Also liked that the big news you took away from it was that he hangs out with Dr. Andonuts. Funny stuff.
Although I would love for it to be true that Nintendo is teasing about a new Mother/EarthBound release here in the U.S.A. I highly doubt it.
As someone else said here it might just be a cute name they decided to put on a door at E3 not thinking that anyone would notice or bother to ask about it...
But hey there is always a SLIGHT chance that they aren't pulling strings and that they ARE trying to hint at a Mother/EarthBound release...
Gotta be optimistic! Cross your fingers!
Also someone should ask G4 about this thing tomorrow or something, you know they'll get the answer one way or another! LMAO!
Nintendo just knows that EarthBound fans will take whatever punishment they can give us. Their form of torture this time is reminding us that they are still totally aware of the game they're never going to release in the U.S.
The only people who would get their panties in a bunch over a peaceful, sharing village (until the money concept is accepted) and calling it "socialism" would be radical right-wings. Everyone else would just play the damn game.
That being said, goddamnit, I want it. Nintendo, stop teasing us or I'll do things that should never be done, ever.
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2:30 PM on 06.17.2010
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Hey, I can dream ^^,
Regardless, that company is a bunch of fucking teases.
Which is fine. I don't understand why Earthbound fans are still wound up. We have Earthbound. We have a fan translation of Mother 1 that's fantastic. We have a fan translation of Mother 3 which is beyond fantastic. A sequel is nigh impossible. I'm perfectly satisfied with the state of the Mother world.
On the other hand, if the did announce a Mother collection for any system, I would immediately go into cardiac arrest.
As someone else said here it might just be a cute name they decided to put on a door at E3 not thinking that anyone would notice or bother to ask about it...
But hey there is always a SLIGHT chance that they aren't pulling strings and that they ARE trying to hint at a Mother/EarthBound release...
Gotta be optimistic! Cross your fingers!
Also someone should ask G4 about this thing tomorrow or something, you know they'll get the answer one way or another! LMAO!
Nah, it's probably nothing. AGAIN.
Fuck you Nintendo you fucking teases.
The only people who would get their panties in a bunch over a peaceful, sharing village (until the money concept is accepted) and calling it "socialism" would be radical right-wings. Everyone else would just play the damn game.
That being said, goddamnit, I want it. Nintendo, stop teasing us or I'll do things that should never be done, ever.