
Outside of Japan, there has always been a dearth of EarthBound/Mother related merchandise. Sure, there are the rare old promo items, but in terms of stuff that you could get without being a journalist or games store employee?
Well, my friends, the wait is over!
Available NOW from
My Nintendo, you can redeem 400 Platinum Coins for a Phase Distorter luggage tag or an EarthBound Beginnings notebook! Platinum Coins are gained by completing missions such as exploring
corporate advertising nightmares websites for recent and upcoming Nintendo titles, logging into the Wii U or 3DS eShop, or clearing objectives in a handful of mobile titles.
While this may sound tedious, if you haven't previously completed these missions, it's pretty easy to amass 800 Platinum Coins for both items just by doing the website related tasks. If you're a Mother merch collector, it's easily worth the effort for some of the few official and non-Smash related pieces of swag released in the US and Canada!
...actually, is this the first official EarthBound Beginnings thing to release outside of Japan? Wowza!