Quote Originally Posted by Edmond Dantes View Post
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you--I for some reason have had bad cases of oversleeping.

Yes, the box is holding up fine. I want to get a box protector for it soon. And you might have heard somewhere that I now have an actual game to go with it. ^__^

Lupin the Third is awesome. It's about a professional thief and his allies... so kind of Ocean's Eleven/The Thomas Crown Affair, but far more whimsical and in serial format. The copyright issue comes in because Lupin the Third is a pretty unabashed fanfic/ripoff of the Arsene Lupin novels by Maurice LeBlanc, which at the time were not in the public domain (some of them are now, and can be found in English on Project Gutenberg... they're worth a read).

And yes, Japan LOVES Mother. All three games recently made it onto Famitsu's "Top 100 Games of All Time" lists, with Mother 2 and 3 especially ranking pretty high on said list. Mother 3 was also the first game in history to get all-perfects from that magazine, which is notoriously brutal.
It's cool man. that's great, is it like one of those plastic boxes that are see through?
And how much was EB? If i could buy it again, i'd pay 120 for it..Especially since it's my favorite game of all time. I saw some of Lupin, i love 80's anime. I'm thinking Itoi had a falling out with NOA during EB's American release, of course who knows, but i really wonder what the real story is, and if there are any about Nintendo..There isn't much inside info on the company, like how it works and stuff, unlike Atari or Sega, i dont know much about the company's behin the scenes stuff-like, was Nintendo doubting the Gamecube before it came out? It seems Nintendo was depressed at the time (a whole company depressed, it can happen)...Anyways sorry everybody for going waaaaaay off topic.