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EarthBound / by Ken Baumann.

by Baumann, Ken, 1989-

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Boss Fight Books, 2014.

EarthBound (Game)

Nintendo video games.

Video games -- History.

9781940535005 (pbk.)

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ix, 189 p. ; 18 cm.

"EarthBound is a Japanese role playing computer game released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. The game flopped when it first arrived in the U.S. but EarthBound grew in fan support and critical acclaim over the years, eventually becoming the all-time favorite game of thousands, among them author Ken Baumann. In 2013, EarthBound was reissued for the Wii U Virtual Console following many years of fan lobbying. Featuring a heartfelt foreword from the game's North American localization director, Marcus Lindblom, Baumann's EarthBound is a joyful tornado of history, criticism, and memoir. Baumann explores the game's unlikely origins, its brilliant creator, its madcap plot, its marketing failure, its cult rise from the ashes, and its intersections with Japanese and American culture, all the while reflecting back on the author's own journey into the terrifying and hilarious world of adults. Ken Baumann is a motion picture and television actor, and the author of the novels Solip and Say, Cut, Map. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico"--Provided by publisher.

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