EarthBound Beginnings on Nintendo Switch Online needs an SP version
It may not be the Virtual Console setup I loved on my Wii and 3DS, but I have to say I’ve really been digging the Nintendo Switch Online retro game package as of late. A few years ago, I got my first good look at how I could enjoy playing these decades-old games when I went through and completed Zelda II: The Adventure of Link for the very first time. Since then, the library of available titles and consoles has expanded, with the Sega Genesis and Nintendo 64 finding their way to the subscription service, albeit at a more expensive tier than what you pay to play NES and SNES titles. Thankfully, I have zero interest in revisiting anything from the Nintendo 64, and I already own every Genesis title worth owning with one of the 1,000 Genesis compilations Sega has released over the past two decades. So I’m sticking with those NES and SNES titles, and there is one game that was added to the service not too long ago that I’m eyeing as my next conquest: EarthBound Beginnings.
The Mother/EarthBound series has a complicated history with audiences outside of Japan. Back in 1989, it released in Japan to huge sales, prompting localization work to begin on the title for North American audiences under the name Earth Bound. Unfortunately, that didn’t come to pass. The game’s release in North America was canceled, even with a fully localized version bouncing around Nintendo offices. It wasn’t until 2015 that audiences outside of Japan got their first non-pirated look at the game with the release of EarthBound Beginnings for the Nintendo Wii U. This followed the release of the SNES’s EarthBound on the platform, which is one of the best Virtual Console releases ever given its inclusion of the legendary guide book. EarthBound Beginnings‘
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