Instant Revitalize
One of the best things about EarthBound is that it's so much like life in America in the '90s. Don't worry, that's not the entire thesis of this article, I have a much grander thesis in mind.
There's a reason that I like that in the game though. It revitalizes in me that it's possible that someday maybe I'll acquire super psychic powers and recieve a telephone call late at night calling on me to save the world.
Hey, I can dream, can't I? But think about it. I know I'm not alone. I'm sure that when the rest of you first played EarthBound, you guys thought maybe someday YOU would be called on to save the world from an evil megalomaniac, be it Giygas, Saddam Hussein, or maybe even Dan Quayle. EarthBound is like that. It hooks you with the cartoon-ish graphics and makes you think that maybe it'll happen to YOU someday.
Who here besides me has daydreamed while playing the game about running through the desert and summoning wind at your command to envelop a wolf that wants to eat you? I certainly have, but I'm sure I'm not alone on that one.
Of course, EarthBound also brings alive the possibility that it might be a friend of yours. I certainly have thought of that. Maybe when the Pentagon aims its nukes at everybody else in the world, I'll be the next Tony to help Jeff out. At least that way, if I get honored, it won't be posthumously. But it'd still be cool to be just an average fifteen-year-old and then get swept up in having to destroy an evil alien bent on the Earth's destruction.
Hey, I can dream, can't I?
One of the best things about EarthBound is that it's so much like life in America in the '90s. Don't worry, that's not the entire thesis of this article, I have a much grander thesis in mind.
There's a reason that I like that in the game though. It revitalizes in me that it's possible that someday maybe I'll acquire super psychic powers and recieve a telephone call late at night calling on me to save the world.
Hey, I can dream, can't I? But think about it. I know I'm not alone. I'm sure that when the rest of you first played EarthBound, you guys thought maybe someday YOU would be called on to save the world from an evil megalomaniac, be it Giygas, Saddam Hussein, or maybe even Dan Quayle. EarthBound is like that. It hooks you with the cartoon-ish graphics and makes you think that maybe it'll happen to YOU someday.
Who here besides me has daydreamed while playing the game about running through the desert and summoning wind at your command to envelop a wolf that wants to eat you? I certainly have, but I'm sure I'm not alone on that one.
Of course, EarthBound also brings alive the possibility that it might be a friend of yours. I certainly have thought of that. Maybe when the Pentagon aims its nukes at everybody else in the world, I'll be the next Tony to help Jeff out. At least that way, if I get honored, it won't be posthumously. But it'd still be cool to be just an average fifteen-year-old and then get swept up in having to destroy an evil alien bent on the Earth's destruction.
Hey, I can dream, can't I?
