7:09 AM on 02.08.2008
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A lot of Western gamers have been sad for years over Nintendo's continued refusal to localize more games in the Mother/Earthbound series (the home of Smash Bros Brawl characters Ness and Lucas). But luckily we have the crazed, blindly devoted, and ever so hard working folks at Starmen.net to help us fill the Mother/Earthbound shaped hole that Nintendo of America has left in our hearts. The Starmen's latest effort, a freeware shmup titled Ego Orb in Space, downloads to your PC in seconds. From there the game will work your trigger finger to the bone by offering minutes, and I mean minutes, of fun, thrills, and light hearted destruction. Sure the game is over too fast, but it's a work in progress. It's certainly not a bad start, more than worth the (free) price of admission. The music and graphics are smile inducing. Most of it's sprites are recycled from the Earthbound Beastiary's Sci-Fi section, with the exception being a cameo from one of Mother/Earthbound's more celebrated personalities. This may be the first time he's been spotted in space, despite his decidedly cosmic moniker.
More info on the game, such as screenshots, video, tutorial, and download link can be found here on the Starmen.net message boards. [Via Starmen.net]
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Once I adjusted to the controls it was pretty fun. Too bad it didn't have any Mother music playing though.
This looks pretty fun!
yeah this does look fun. i hope we get mother 3 over here.
Does this Ego Orb in question drop a Broken Parobolic? And if it does, is there a higher than a .78% chance of it happening?
Sweet, right now I'm playing through Earthbound for the first time.
Short but sweet, I really with they would translate Mother 3 :(
This game has made me so happy inside. I love all the little Earthbound refs. Like when you die, it says "SMAAAAASH!"
One thing the guy should change though, his 8's look like A's.
@Gen Eric Gui
Nice.
Did you just use "free" and "Earthbound" in one sentence? SWEET!
Just tell them to finish that translation!
THANK YOU for posting! now all we need is a Mother 3 translation and I can die a happy man.
"From their the game will work your trigger finger"
HOW COULD YOU?
Woooo, we were mentioned! Go Starmen.net!
shump --> shmup
their --> there
I can't download it, is it getting tons of traffic?
sw33t! DO WANT!
As long as this doesn't interfere in any way with the translation project, I'm all for this.
I'll wait till it's complete to play it, but it looks great. Love seeing the lil ufos makeing a return.
I hate myself.
I'm glad someone on here is covering Mother news; it saves me having to refresh Starmen every day, which gets tiring
Dear God in heaven. I must download this.
@Jonathan Holmes
I'd still do you.
Awesome.
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