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Newsletter 24 September
1st E-mailed to you by kwalka. (Postman)
News and Updates
Club News Well, despite the
alleged cancellation of one of the most anticipated games of all time,
life goes on. I hope to all that is good and holy that Nintendo will
one day change their minds or a rom can be found on the internet.
Anything so we can just PLAY THIS GAME. In honor to the game, I have
constructed the EarthBound 64
Shrine at the Moonside Homepage. Check it out. I also added a new section to the
newsletter called the Mother 3 Updates. It will serve as a memorium center and a place that will
direct you to Mother 3 mp3s, images, and videos. This section will be
located under the News and Updates section at the top of every
newsletter.
Participate! I need more of you guys to send in polll
votes and whatnot. Sorry about the late arrival of last week's
newsletter, but when I tried to send it with inernet mail, it screwed
up and I had to get our new postman, kwalka to send it out. Reminder:
don't reply to kwalka with questions or trivia, because it won't get to
ME if you do...
Vote For the NL Background! - I need to distinguish a
good background color for the newsletter, I kinda like this one (Light
Yellow) or white. I want it to be simple and not too
attention-grabbing... I may just stick with this color though...
Vote from these choices:
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Yellow
Light Blue Light Green Light Gray
Plain White
Keep it
the way it is. (Light Yellow)
Mother 3
Updates
This week in Mother 3 updates: Here is
the news story from IGN.com.
==Earthbound 64 Cancelled==
Sorry "Mother" fanatics -- Hal's
Shigesato Itoi
confirms the termination of N64's Earthbound title.
Some bad news before Spaceworld: Earthbound 64 (Mother 3 in Japan) has
apparently been terminated for good. The title's designer, Shigesato
Itoi, released a statement yesterday commenting that the game's
development cycle was laced with problems and that he simply
doesn't have the time to complete it in light of new projects he's
working on for Nintendo's next-generation console.
Earthbound 64 was under development since the early days of Nintendo 64
and was scheduled to release in Japan later this year. However, it
should be noted that Itoi had expressed frustrations with the project
previously in several interviews with the Japanese press, explaining
that the jump from 2D to 3D really put the development team at an
unexpected disadvantage and that they had been scrambling to deal
with it ever since.
Earthbound 64 has been removed from Nintendo's Japanese products list
for Nintendo 64 and, according to Itoi, is not scheduled for release on
the company's next-generation console either.
Images and stuff next week.
Table of Contents
1. Intro/News
2. Mother 3
Updates
3. Moonside Ranks
4. Member Info/Promotions & Demotions
5. Moonside Trivia
6. Moonside Polls
7. Game Reviews
8. Moonside Battle Arena
9. Moonside Interviews
10. Member's Top Five
NEW
11. Advertisements
12. Conclusion & Next Issue Highlights
Ranks
Ranks Update: New Ranks are in!!! Just because the upper ranks are not
filled up doesn't mean you are not worthy of the position!!! I thought
it would be a good idea to start the ranks near the bottom so
promotions and demotions will be easier to chart. (Instead of, say some
one being randomly chosen near tohe top of the ranks, and then cannot
be necessarily promoted...) So don't be mad if you are a Sentry Robot,
and someone who put in the same amount of effort as you is a Cafe
Regular. Ranks should change drastically over the next few weeks...
Member of the
Week
CrazedMogX
is this weeks member
of the week. Mog has been a great help with his particiation. Voting on
polls, sending in trivia, top five games, you name it. Plus he's a
long-time member of Moonside...
1. Invisible Man - RedArwing
2. Jackie (as in Jackies Cafe) -
3. Abstract Art -
4. Musica -
5. Dali's Clock -
6. Scalding Coffee -
7. Mystical Record -
8. Dungeon Man -
9. Hotel Darkmoon Clerk -
10. Hotel Darkmoon Bell-boy -
11. Doorman -
12. Monotoli -
13. Moonside Museum Owner -kwalka Member of the Week for 8-25-00
14. Moonside Museum Security - HardCoreMatingly
15. Cafe Junkie - CrazedMogX Member of
the Week
16. Cafe Janitor - Cheesy316
17. Cafe Regular - Magusmuta, Red jewel7, MEHICKS1@hotmail.com,
Achrono127, milkmooer@hotmail.com, mysticow@hotmail.com, OnettNess, Ava
Fm, BuckDawg23, ALLEN BEAR, Ragnarosen,
18. Enraged Fire Plug - Fmbw15,CreamdCrn, FF24EVER, DRC6265,
Afro Tenda, Ness3Toad II, Haplo859, Smart625, Lotus1438
19. Sentry Robot - Bluegoo26, N64Boy6464, Airhead539,
Pandy64@hotmail.com, IHIEADsDead, EBG Ness, Kid of Seph, JAY3983
20. Moonside Citizens - Unlisted Members
21. Mani Mani -
22. Robo Pump -
23. Neon Lighting Director
24. Ruffini
25. Warp Men-
Member Info/Promotions and Demotions
I have done something
worthy of a promotion
In the club, you are
promoted and demoted according to your behavior and participation. I'll
be straight with you: If you don't do anything, you won't be demoted.
Yes I meant to write DEmoted. I understand if you just want to join the
club and read newsletters. I used to do that when I was in other clubs.
If you purposely try to harm the club, you will be demoted, and only
then. You can be promoted though, and with promotion comes great
happiness! Here are the top five things you can do to get promoted:
1. Send me an old
Moonside Newsletter: Promoted 3 Ranks!
2. Recruit 5 members: Promoted 1 Rank
3. Advertise on EB Message Boards: Promoted 1 Rank (If i get more
members because of the ad, you are promoted again) Note: I have no AOL,
so I cannot do this anymore = VERY IMPORTANT.
4. Help find other clubs to advertise with: Promoted Once
5. Help with Web Design and Logos: Twice Promoted
You need to notify me of your accomplishment though, did you think that
a promotion would come automatically?!? I would prefer you send old
Newsletters, or help with logos!!! ~Red
Weekly EarthBound Trivia
Last week's Trivia Answers:
1. Who am I? If you ask nicely, I will accompany you in the strange
world of Magicant. Flying Man
2. Unscramble This: Yopek Pokey
3. Who gives you the Yogurt Dispenser? Apple Kid
4. Why does Jeff leave Snow Wood? To help Ness and his friends after receiving a telepathic
call from Paula
5. Where does the Apple Kid live? Twoson
This Week's Trivia:
1. Who am I? I am able to store and deliver things for you.
2. Unscramble this: Nima Amin
3. Who gives you the "Wad of Bills"
4. Why does Ness defeat Belch? (How)
5. Where do you first see the Runaway Five play?
I know the
answers
Make up a trivia for
the newsletter!!!
Yes! YOU can submit some trivia answers! See if you can stump
the entire club! The trivia in this newsletter is NOT random questions.
My trivia usually follows a simple formula, which you may have not
previously noticed. The formula:
1. A simple Who am I? question with a hint.
2. An "Unscramble This" question
3. A "who" question.
4. A "why" question.
5. A "where" question.
You may follow this formula or not. All I ask is 5 good trivia
questions. So, why not Make up some
trivia?
Moonside Polls
Last week, fittingly enough, I asked
you about the cancellation of Mother 3. Most of you had the same
response. Let's examine the results, shall we?
"How do you feel about the cancellation of Mother 3, aka EarthBound
64?"
1. I'm Pissed as hell...
(100%!!!)
...why go into the other choices? I think we know the majority of the
votes went to choice number one. Now, let's see how people feel about
it...
"SCREW NINTENDO. THEY SCREWED US OVER
FOR THE LAST TIME. I SAY WE ALL BOYCOTT THEM!!!" -
HardCoreMatingly
"No EarthBound 64 no new Nintendo
products for me. Ever." - CrazedMogX
This week's Poll:
Would you seriously boycott Nintendo only for the alleged
cancellation of this game?
1.
YES
2.
NO
Tell Me
Why!
Game Reviews
This week in Reviews:
~ No reviews!
~ Write-a-Review Guide
No reviews this week, but I'll be glad to publish the review of any
game you send in!!! It can be FF7, Xenogears, EarthBound, Goldeneye,
EarthBound Zero, FF 1-8, Chrono Trigger, Wild Arms 1 or 2, Shadow
Madness, Alundra, Thousand Arms, any
Zelda game, Final Fantasy Tactics.... whatever.
Write-a-Review!
It's simple, It's easy, and it's fun! You can write a review
for the MWN! Just send me an e-mail with the review of a game of your
choice, and I'll post in the Newsletter!
You can follow my review scale, or make up your own!
My Scale:
Graphics: 1-10 (Good or bad)
Replay: 1-10 (Would you play it over and over?)
Fun: 1-10 (Well, is it FUN???)
Gameplay: 1-10 (Game Mechanics)
Quality: 1-10 (Cheaply made: Quest 64, High Quality: Metal Gear
Solid)
Overall: 1-10 (Not an average, just overall)
Send in a
review!
Battle Arena
Last week's Battle: Ness
vs. Poo
We all know you voted for Ness, except a few who voted for Poo, so
Ness wins!
his section will be leaving us for a while, unless I get some requests
for it to return. I find it the most lacking out of all our member
participation activities. Maybe it will make a monthly appearance on
the web site...?
Moonside Interviews
This week's Interview: CrazedMogX!!!
Next Up: JAY3989
Sign up for
an Interview.
What you are about to read is an actual live interview that took place
between RedArwing and CrazedMogX the night the newsletter was
published. The events in this manuscript are true, and not staged.
CrazedMogX:great
to be here
RedArwing3: yes it is
RedArwing3: this is our first live interview
RedArwing3: OK, to start off, the always interesting question, where did
you first hear about EarthBound?
CrazedMogX: Well I used
to subscribe to Nintendo Power and they had a preview of EarthBound and
I just recently got into RPGs because my friend Antonio lent me a copy
of Final Fantasy 2 and it seemed like a great game
CrazedMogX:
Back in 95
RedArwing3: Yes, I remember that issue... anyways, what makes the game
so enjoyable to this day?
CrazedMogX: Well, I think
it has to be the replay value, most RPGs are fun the first time you
play through them, but when you finish them you never want to try it
again. I could open up a file in EarthBound to this day and play
without getting bored
RedArwing3: True, true...
RedArwing3: What other games are you playing now?
CrazedMogX: Currently I'm
playing Zelda: A Link to the Past and Final Fantasy Tactics
RedArwing3: Are you enjoying the club?
CrazedMogX: Yeah, I love
the fact that you revived the club because other than you theres only 1
EB club around, The EarthBound Gang, it's great to see clubs about
EB
RedArwing3: Quick, name as many EB Clubs as you can that were around at
one time or another!
CrazedMogX: The Sharks,
Mr Saturn Nation, Rowdy Mice, Students of Snow Wood, Flying Men, Ness's
Followers, Exit Mice, Desert Monkeys, Yesman Jrs club, I forget the
name, that's about all I remember
RedArwing3: Not bad!
RedArwing3: Hmmm... I'll see if I can name any you missed.
RedArwing3: Foursiders.... and thats it.
RedArwing3: Oh well, they will all be remembered.
RedArwing3: Favorite game ever?
CrazedMogX: Now
that's a tough question.....it would have to be either EarthBound,
Final Fantasy 2, Zelda 2: Adventures of Link, Mega Man 3, or Super
Mario Bros 3
CrazedMogX:
But probably
EarthBound
RedArwing3: Anything you wanna say to all those clubbers out there
before we leave?
CrazedMogX: Yes actually
there is, if anyone was thinking about starting an EarthBound club and
is serious about it, please e-mail me and lets talk about if we should
make a club
RedArwing3: YES! Good idea! We need more clubs to keep this thing
alive!
RedArwing3: Thanks for letting me interview you, Mog.
CrazedMogX: No problem
Red
RedArwing3:
Members: Keep on playin' SNES, and recruit more members!
RedArwing3:
peace
out.
Member's Top Five
This section is a member's top
five list. You can send in a top five list of your favorite games BY CLICKING
HERE.
This week's top five list was donated by our Member of the Week,
CrazedMogX. Truly a fine list of games. (I noticed that I own all of
them in some form or another...)
Top 5 by CrazedMogX
The Super Nintendo was a system that
produced some memorable RPGs in this list I will attempt to rank the
significance of them in a top five list.
1. EarthBound - I don't think anyone will argue with this
one, and nothing needs to be said about it because I'm sure everyone
loves EB in this club.
2. Final Fantasy 2 - (I go by American names) - A fun,
interesting RPG that is sure to get any newbie to this video game genre
hooked (it did for me).
3. Chrono Trigger - The graphics are amazing, the plot is
intense, the soundtrack is great, but most of all this is extremely fun
(especially when you're in 600 AD and 1000 AD).
4. Final Fantasy 3 - The most overrated RPG ever. It's hard to
get intoat first and too difficult for the average gamer. Still once
you get a feel for it you will be amazed by this game.
5. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Some might say this
is an Adventure game or Action-RPG but I have a loose definitionon what
an RPG is. This game while not the best Zelda (it could even be the
worst perhaps) is still damn good. The fun factor is amazing and the
challenge is intense.
Send in your top
five.
Advertisements
Well? Advertise your club or
website here!!! C'mon people! FREE ADVERTISING SPACE!
Advertise!
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Conclusion
Another newsletter come and gone, another week... It's Labor
Day weekend, so as soon as I finish this and mail it on over to kwalka,
I'm gonna RELAX. Maybe plat a little Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VII
tomorrow, but right now, I'm gonna get some sleep.... maybe later
though. It really is unpleasant having to wake up at 6:20 AM every
morning so you can catch the bus at 7, then ride 45 minutes to
school... ANYWAYS, I've been thinking about updating the website with
MP3s and other stuff. I have quite a bit of EarthBound music files on
my computer, and I'd love to share the with the world. That may just be
a dream, but in the meantime, go download off napster. I hope everyone
isn't going homocidal about EB64, this battle is not yet over, so don't
give up. Brush your teeth, go recruit members,
-=Red
~~~~~~~
Moonside EarthBound Club
2000
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