Earthbound?

[om3ga]

Does Earthbound not come with an instruction manual?
It comes with a strategy guide instead?

What all comes with the "complete" Earthbound?

[gamergary]

I believe it came with some scratch and smell stickers which smelled like raw sewerage etc.

[pookninja]

I believe it came with some scratch and smell stickers which smelled like raw sewerage etc.yeah,it comes in an oversized box because of the players guide,the game cart,and the players guide.the scratch and sniff stickers were attached in the players guide.also,some video game magazines at the time the game came out also had some of the scratch and sniff in the ads for the game.

[sniperCCJVQ]

Does Earthbound not come with an instruction manual?
It comes with a strategy guide instead?

What all comes with the "complete" Earthbound?

I think the strategy guide is the manual.

[rbudrick]

I'm pretty sure It had instructions too....

I think it had stickers, guide book, instructions, box, warranty card, and possible some kind of Nintendo Power type of add and/or an ad poster.

However, I would like confrmation of all this myself...

-Rob

[om3ga]

I believe it came with some scratch and smell stickers which smelled like raw sewerage etc.yeah,it comes in an oversized box because of the players guide,the game cart,and the players guide.the scratch and sniff stickers were attached in the players guide.also,some video game magazines at the time the game came out also had some of the scratch and sniff in the ads for the game.


Thanks.

Scratch N' Sniff >

[hydr0x]

Does Earthbound not come with an instruction manual?
It comes with a strategy guide instead?

What all comes with the "complete" Earthbound?

I think the strategy guide is the manual.

i have no idea about earthbound but in europe this was the case for Super Metroid, Illusion of Time, Secret of Evermore, Secret of Mana, Lufia and Terranigma, also LE DKC 2... all those games exist in non-guide versions though that have a manual instead and a smaller box...

[om3ga]

Cool.

Well All i need is the Strat Guide then.

WTB Strat Guide !

Anyone got one?

[Jasoco]

I really wish I had known about EarthBound back then. I so totally wish I had gotten it.

[Habeeb Hamusta]

Yeah, me too.

[ubersaurus]

The manual is in the very first section of the strat guide. They sorta consolidated the 2.

[atomicthumbs]

Y'know what never gets old. At the beginning of the game, entering "pussy" as your favorite food! I mean, it, like, pops up throughout the entire frickin' game, and is offered to you countless times by your mother! Now that's comedy!

[Jasoco]

LOL

[studvicious]

they also made a small box version of earthbound

[Escape•From•Jenny•Island]

Instruction Manual was like the first 10 or 20 pages of the Strategy Guide. And I don't know about your's but my Scratch and Sniff section in the back of my strategy guide aren't removeable stickers.

Also had a little contest Scratch and Sniff in there that I think is Pizza, have no Idea what you won though as I never sent mine in.

[Promophile]

My father made me sell my SNES / NES / Genesis / Gamegear / every-other-system games before he allowed me to buy a PS1. Being about 12 years old at the time, I thought nothing of selling all my precious / rare games. some of the stuff I sold for pennies includes BoF 1 and 2 for the SNES, Earthbound, Dragon Force, Panzer Dragoon saga, and many more. It still pisses me off.

[Lone_Monster]

I don't know if this is correct or not, but I heard that if you sent the scratch n' sniff things in, they sent you back a Pizza air freshener thing.

[Jasoco]

My father made me sell my SNES / NES / Genesis / Gamegear / every-other-system games before he allowed me to buy a PS1. Being about 12 years old at the time, I thought nothing of selling all my precious / rare games. some of the stuff I sold for pennies includes BoF 1 and 2 for the SNES, Earthbound, Dragon Force, Panzer Dragoon saga, and many more. It still pisses me off. X_x
What a bastard.

[rbudrick]

Y'know what never gets old. At the beginning of the game, entering "pussy" as your favorite food! I mean, it, like, pops up throughout the entire frickin' game, and is offered to you countless times by your mother! Now that's comedy!

Yeah, I've done that. Entering Shit is just as funny and fits so well sometimes, it's almost like they planned it!!!!!

_Rob

[goatdan]

Earthbound came with the big box that contained the Instructions / Strategy Guide (one in the same) and a couple of the mail-in cards and the game itself. The box was always an oversized one (looks like the promo boxes that they had for certain other games.)

The scratch and sniff cards were in the strategy guide, but they were also used in some game publications to promote the game. I believe that they were inserted into a Nintendo Power and a EGM (or something like it) with the ad being something about how much the game stinks.

Oddly enough, I got about four copies of Earthbound complete and mind in box a few years ago. I put them up on the GOAT Store for $50.00 apiece, and they sat there for over a year, and then suddenly in the matter of a week all four were sold to people in different parts of the country.

Since then, the game has steadily increased in cost.

I bought my personal copy for $5.95 at a Family Video. It isn't in good shape, (and I found a beat-up strategy guide to go with it) but it is my personal copy of it, and I wouldn't part with it for a pristine one... I guess that's the gamer in me :)

Earthbound is my favorite RPG ever, hands down. I still remember the first time I rented it -- I was sick and home from school so my parents rented it for me. I had it for three days, and part of that time I didn't sleep so I could complete the game. I got sicker because of it in the long run, but I beat it.

What a game :D

[Promophile]

I would go so far as to say it's my favorite game of all time. It's really that good. It's amazing how this game has a HUGE fanbase even today, check out starmen.net. But one warning, its a game you either LOVE or HATE.