OK, so I was cruising through a few of my old Nintendo Power Magazines, and I was reading issue 21 which was released in February of 1991,
I got to the Game Play Counselors section where they show all the Awesome Nerds that answer your questions when you would call the 800-NINTENDO hotline back in the day.... (I love this section because of the Hobbies and Accomplishments they list are awesome!)
Anyway... I was reading Shawn McGoldrick's info, and noticed that his favorite game was none other than "Earth Bound"....
I thought, wait a minute... this is in Feb of 1991 ?? So the SNES wasn't even released... not to mention the 1995 US release of "Earthbound" was 4 years away...
I have read before that Mother #1 was being translated in 1990 by Phil Sandhop and his crew... but I never thought that these Game Play Counselors would get to play thru unreleased games...
I thought maybe our boy Shawn here got his hand on a Japanese version of Mother (since it was released in 1989), but he didn't call it Mother... he referred to it as "Earth Bound".... the same title that they planned on releasing it as before they canceled the release in the Fall of 1991...
Apparently Mr. McGoldrick, must have been Beta Testing the translated Game before it was scheduled to release... and was allowed to speak about it in his Info...
What do you guys think? Just thought this seemed a bit Curious?? Also Shawn McGoldrick... if you are still out there, maybe you could shed some light on the old Earth Bound translation?
Thanks Folks,
Zwario