Earthbound

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FINALLY. Nintendo is bringing the beloved RPG Earthbound to the Wii U's Virtual Console this year.

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This past week saw the release in Japan of Earthbound(Mother 2) on the Wii U’s virtual console.

This Sunday, I spent about an hour delving through the past 24 hours of messages on the Mother 2 MiiVerse page that…