I Found the Lost EarthBound Game

[@MonkeyNess]

Update: Steam TTS add-on is now available!!

[@EarthboundBrainrot]

This is very cool. I love your videos.

[@CyvoNate]

Sounds pretty neat

[@thedotgiver2820]

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[@Zvstheworld207]

I was just about to ask that

[@RefriedBeansProductions]

@MonkeyNess Commenting in several places to try and get your attention. There is an online service called The Game Crafter which is exactly what you’re looking for as far as printing out physical cards go. I’m a member of the homemade TCG community and I’ve used them for years. All you have to do is upload the images/designs for your cards or other materials (such as the box, or dice, that are involved) and then anyone on the site can order your finished product and have it shipped straight to them. The amount of stuff you can do with that site is absurd, and is incredibly high quality. No company contacts required. So, if you see this, do give it a try, it’s really easy to setup and exactly what you’re looking for.

[@EGOyarzoH]

Ah, yes, my favourite earthbound character, a guy who's literally named "hat" and only appears in a tabletop game wich nobody knows about

[@raditudesydney]

earthbound fans when their favorite character is ness and not that guy

[@pewdiephile]

MOTHER 2*

[@Ry_yan]

@@pewdiephilewhy do you gotta be that guy

[@Redacted_0000]

@@pewdiephile but isn’t it technically mother three, since this released after mother two. I’m sure when he said earthbound he was referring to the series

[@Mike14264]

A _big_ hat, might I add

[@niksooxyz]

I love how the lore for Thomas Jefferson’s real name is just needlessly complicated and has no bearing on anything whatsoever. It just exists for the sake of it and I suppose that’s what make this franchise’s sense of humour so endearing to all of us

[@softy5447]

It's a very chugga move to have just been casually sitting on a rare relic for years without knowing Infact it sounds like a plot point straight out of earthbound

[@gelatinspiders]

can’t believe people remember chuggaconroy

[@NickNakk22]

He Found The Lost Earthbound Game Yet He Still Doesn't Have A Jeff Plush

[@Izakkey]

In a short he said a friend was borrowing it

[@dogekakesdaking]

@@Izakkey*permanently

[@AaronL0905]

Chugga being one of the few people who have it is insane man Really was there all the time and no one thought about it

[@D4Nesquickster]

Luckily our goat Chuggaaconroy clutched at a very unexpected time.

[@TheMegaGamingWizard]

@@D4Nesquickster i was definitely not expecting to hear him mentioned in MonkeyNess video...

[@harrylane4]

@@D4Nesquickster we are NOT calling the feet pics weirdo the goat

[@betsyrocketram]

i think tomas's real name being poncho makes his joke even funnier.

[@fishdubx]

The fact you restored it is insane, that's some serious dedication

[@Starpotion]

It's a relief seeing such a positive ending to this story when it seems a lot of lost media hunts end with some rabid collector hoarding or demanding a ransom for the item. It's both funny and really cool that Chuggaa took the time to simply fetch it out of his collection to be documented and shared.

[@baconlabs]

Shoutouts to Tomás Jefferson, a man among men rivalling the likes of Jorge Washington

[@Big_Man_Enjoyer]

And Alejandro Hamilton and Juan Adams

[@Mrshoujo]

😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@gr4ndsoulfreak]

Man, I remember the vlog where Chugga showed off the earthbound shrine and talked about Slot Brothers. It's amazing we finally have a playable version of it in the west!

[@JidJip]

Yoooo, ya'll got it playable on Tabletop Simulator. That's awesome!

[@MonkeyNess]

Steam page just needs to be published! It’ll be up and going in a few hours :)

[@rainbowmacaroon9189]

Damn, props to y'all for going through the effort to make the game more accessible for so many people! Nice work!

[@brycj14128]

Off topic, but that’s the CUTEST Ness thumbnail I’ve seen, love the Paper Mario look!

[@autobotstarscream765]

It fits so well with the actual MOTHER 2 artstyle! 😁

[@Vampire-Catgirl]

Chuggaconroy moment

[@harrylane4]

Better than the last time I heard his name

[@Driff97]

That is such an adorable drawing of Ness in the thumb

[@D4Nesquickster]

Facts + It’s based off of Mario’s Render In PMTTYD.

[@greenhardin1700]

9:46 Sombrero is Sans

[@litningman06]

Sombrero After Not Surviving

[@TopDogfishM3]

This is so cool! Only one more lost mother game left to find haha

[@brockthebananabruiser2819]

Mother 5

[@kleendustertheclown3262]

Technically 2 games according to lmw. One for the n64 and another for the gamecube.

[@dogekakesdaking]

That's right! The barely-known scrapped Mother remake for SNES!

[@GmodPlusWoW]

Not only did man unearth a forgotten Mother card-game, but they gave the damn thing a fan-patch. Oh, and props to Chugga for helping a brother out.

[@poleon2003]

Yeah great to see Chugga revived after the allegations that were made against him last year that almost ruined his career

[@GmodPlusWoW]

@@poleon2003 That too. For a while I thought it was going to be another Cryaotic situation, but it turned out to be closer to a ProJared situation. I'm just glad that things turned out as well as they did. We've seen more than our fair share of creators fall from grace in recent years.

[@anonamatron]

@@GmodPlusWoW I have no idea what he did or didn't do, but I'm also tired of seeing everyone think everyone needs to be 100% perfect while also agreeing with whatever the current politically correct standards that change all the time currently are, and then when they do match the current standards but 15 years ago said something that goes against today's standards, they're barred from civilization as we know it. I guess for someone like that the important thing is "does he have a cool collection of stuff?" "does he show it to us?" yes? yes? cool. His personal life isn't really our business unless he lands himself in prison or whatever. I'm not saying I support anything he may have done by any means (since I don't even know what it was!) but people don't need to be so invested in other people's beliefs and personal lives.

[@volbia12]

I had no idea this board game existed! Thank you so much to all of you for making this playable by everyone.

[@nintendom7293]

This is one of the coolest things. The fact that y'all were able to resurface the entire game is awesome. I'll have to play this with my friends soon.

[@gabrielstar777]

3:52 I'm always a fan of this type of this 3D rendering, and it's pretty cool to see Dusty Dune this early 3D

[@lyleabner2475]

Let's sing the Tomas theme this'll play whenever he enters the room Tomas, Tomas Tomas, Tomas Tomas, Tomas Tomas, Tomas The End

[@GlyphWolf]

That's awesome! Good work dude! Hopefully nobody makes a legal stink about reviving an old game they forgot existed.

[@theedwardian]

Some Schlopstein is probably flying to Japan right now to buy the rights so he can sue everyone. Copyright clownery really needs to cease. It weakens the western world.

[@BelovedAngel18]

ChuggaaConroy is a life saver for this and your pockets! Thank goodness for his loves of collecting earthbound/Mother!😁👍

[@thomasescorcio4260]

Kudos to Emile for owning such a thing

[@db_524]

Yep, big kudos

[@Barveth]

the fact that there is a board game about such unimportant characters is hilarious to me, but saying you can win "Tequila" was killer

[@giligan1004]

I love this so much! I own a copy so before the chuggaconroy plug I was starting to type out that I could send you images. Thanks for shedding light on this. I've always been too nervous to fiddle with the components due to its cost and rarity.

[@MissAesthete]

Mother fans's dedication to this series never ceases to amaze me. This is incredible! Bless you for making this awesome lost media widely accessible.

[@eruditonaranja27]

0:03 relatable 🤝

[@TheOtakuArtist]

Incredible job on everyone's part in restoring this lost piece of mother history! Also love how you used the luigi minigame music, it fits very well

[@homecheese8625]

Always love to see lost media recovered and made available for everyone to see. Awesome work!

[@db_524]

Me too.

[@Keeb_the_mof]

I love seeing chugga randomly show up in videos i don't expect lol

[@Solesteam]

0:07 As someone who does the same thing about Dragonball, I get it....

[@Nickk7878-v8t]

Great! Now find EarthBound 64 next. lol

[@MonkeyNess]

o7

[@mitmitmit777]

I found this channel through your vid with cybershell, youre awesome and im sad you dont have more subs. You also inspired me to play mother 2 in full for the first time :D thanks and keep it up man i really love ur stuff

[@someguycalledgoober155]

I love how we get Lore for the mother series in a spin off based off of a gambling side mode.

[@MrEnte3000]

I actually have high quality scans of the box, the instructions, the cards and the dice on my PC. Don't remember were I downloaded them from, though.

[@horpuscorpus8299]

You probably could get better image quality for the cgi imagery if you put it through a proper scanner rather than straight from Chugga's phone. Would mean there would be close to no distortion or flare from the camera or ceiling light where he took it.

[@MonkeyNess]

For sure, I wasn't trying to put him through too much trouble though, and if I wanted, could restore the remainder of them, which I probably will at some point.

[@rayanalfaraj8]

That Ness doing the Paper Mario Ttyd map thing is really cool

[@MatchaFoxx]

I never even knew this existed! Thank you (and everyone involved) for all of your hard work to get this translated and playable for more people! 😁

[@lb1823]

As always, the mother community is the most dedicated of all. Great job!

[@RemieRetro]

I grew content with the fact that I may never be able to play this game within my lifetime, it’s thanks to you guys I can try this game out.

[@potassiumfeldspar]

Incredible work by everyone to make this game available again in 2025. I love seeing passion projects like this come to fruition

[@DLN_0.5]

I would like to thank you for all the effort, hard work and dedication you put into all the content you make about this series we love, your videos are awesome and are everything i could ask for as a Mother fan, seeing a playable recreation of a rare Mother tabletop game was something i never expected but here we are! Thank you so much.

[@904funny]

There is a Paper Mario board game that is also barely documented, also has limited images, and also I haven’t seen a single video talking about it

[@Poyostar]

Man, it's great to have such an obscure piece of MOTHER history preserved in such a way. Kudos to everyone involved in making this possible!

[@IamtheEkco]

I’m glad someone looked more into this great video

[@beauwalker9820]

As an EarthBound fan, I'm amazed I never knew about this game. It's also funny a game used such obscure characters. Shows Itoi always thinks outside the box. Supposedly, Itoi wanted to make a puzzle game starting the Mr. Saturn.

[@willuseonce]

Emile, as always, is just the fucking nicest dude ever

[@himmyhohnshandwiches]

Could’ve sworn he was in hot water for something, what became of that?

[@KingOfDiamonds64]

​@@himmyhohnshandwiches All of that was a bunch of lies that have since been cleared up

[@LightbladeRiulo]

@@himmyhohnshandwichesHe was in hot water for… being a decent person. Yeah turns out the people trying to cancel him were overblowing things or misunderstanding his intentions.

[@autobotstarscream765]

​@@LightbladeRiuloDecency is a crime in the hive of scum and villainy.

[@Morgil27]

It was many, _many_ years before I realized his name was Tomas and not Thomas.

[@jabarbors]

Thanks for the effort to share this!

[@colombotron19]

Looks like a fun project to work on. Glad you were able to revive this game!

[@Bayzzzman]

I love your content brother and you doing this is simply amazing! Good work. I'm a near 40 OG grew up when Earthbound first got me hooked at a young age. Now my children are learning jrpgs through the love of my love. My son was almost named Ness lol thank you for all you do homie for real. Means a lot to old funky nerds like me.

[@jakk2631]

Yooo chuggaaconroy coming in clutch

[@MasIndie]

Great to see some slot bros appreciation

[@aidanobrien5591]

"The odds of this happening, though, are just 0.85%." So Chugga totally got that when you played with him.

[@MolePlayingNice]

I love hearing about these random Mother things that have no reason to exist! It's very fitting, and feels like a trademark of the series' humor!

[@darkman2807]

Does anyone else think the 3D graphics look like EB64? hmm

[@keithleracc]

Chuggaconroy busting down this man's door as we speak.

[@MonkeyNess]

He was all for it :)

[@rosseenglimmer8962]

I wonder if StephenPlays knows about this lost gem, because he’s a big fan of earthbound as I also know.

[@MonkeyNess]

@@rosseenglimmer8962 He actually is the “StephenVlog” I used footage from lol

[@rosseenglimmer8962]

@ oh nice! Glad to hear.

[@ern1813]

You’re not alone monkeyness. I made my own dusty dune desert displays to put in my dad’s Mexican restaurant as decorations and I’m praying that hobonichi doesn’t take legal action to us aswell😭. Very nice on your cards btw!

[@BobKirbyman-kz1fo]

That is so incredibly cool. I had no idea this existed. I love it.

[@Jordan3DS]

One way to handle the rock paper scissors rule with more than 2 players is to make it so that if multiple throw out the same hand, they all lose. If, say, 3 people do rock and 2 do paper, then the 3 rocks lose and the two papers go another round to see who goes first.

[@Sam0121_]

Bro is a legend

[@FabioGnecco]

Awww you guys did all this on my birthday week ! Thanks a lot

[@CyvoNate]

Finally a perfect game, i love gambling and i love Earthbound.

[@jibexi]

Noble earthbound restorative youtube type. I like it, take my sub

[@FirstNameLastName-o8h]

"this is where i watched my parents die, ninten", teddy probably

[@The_thz]

I love how you made it avaliable to anyone. Thank you! :D

[@ItMeRobin]

Love the Azumanga Daioh reference btw

[@Bloxxers_rclNotAClanner]

Same lol

[@ElTaitronAnim]

This is so weird. But I guess that is on-brand for Earthbound.

[@ktpdreemurr]

I am on a whole ‘nother level of excitement right now. Finally some lore about my favorite Sanchez Brother(friend)?? Let’s gooo!!!! Props to you guys for doing this!

[@SupahBerd]

a whole mother level

[@ktpdreemurr]

@ I thought of that while typing it and was genuinely tempted 😂👍👏👏

[@pkloveomega]

I went to a Mother panel at a con last year and they brought up this game and I had never heard of it and the guy next to me goes " I have that in my bag I'm selling it on Sunday" and pulls it out 😭

[@Starchbath]

Be careful when it comes to Nintendo’s intellectual property. They have no issue exercising their fullest extent of copyright law regardless of whether or not the people they’re suing make a nickel from it

[@MonkeyNess]

Not a concern. The Mother IP is split 50/50 between them and Itoi, who loves fan projects, hence why repros of the Mother 3 Fan Translation have never run into trouble.

[@pennsylvanianAntDepravity]

@@MonkeyNess That is so sick! Hell yeah

[@MaybeLLego]

lets go gambling

[@randoncourter4923]

Aw dang it

[@niksooxyz]

Aw dang it

[@Bloxxers_rclNotAClanner]

aw dang it

[@nickdavis27]

Aw dang it

[@BillyL]

You guys making this game as printable PDF! Good stuff guys.

[@tobexomega]

Ahora solo necesitamos una traducción al español para poder disfrutar peak gaming como Itoi lo quiso GRACIAS MONKEYNESS

[@laser90]

I thought that he was going to dig out the GameCube Mother game or something like that, but he actually discovered something I'm sure 95% of Mother fans have never even heard of

[@meatbleed]

This ended up going waayyyy further than I expected. All of y'all are legends. So cool Chugga had a copy lmao

[@who3730]

Dude I watched StephenVlog videos since he’s made them, especially his vlogs where he was hanging out with Chuggaa or the other Runawayguys. It is genuinely CRAZY that I never once even noticed Slot Brothers in Emile’s connection

[@rym99]

Oh my goodness it's the spin off game from the iceberg video

[@seanmcbay]

Awesome. Thanks for doing this.

[@JJMcCullough]

Remarkable work! Very impressive video. It's so cool when people go out of their way to bring lost media to the masses.

[@bubbadoo10]

Not just that, but restore it in a way that anyone can pick up and play Like fuck man, making really rare tabletop games like this playable is such a beautiful use of tabletop simulator

[@CemeteryDriveClown]

Bien dit.

[@dogekakesdaking]

This guy?

[@TheGameCenter]

You should try to contact Itoi and see if he would let you guys get a proper english release for this game.

[@Teeeeee_J]

MonkeyNess in the big '25 😤

[@SusiTerry]

Never thought I'd see sgi renders for something earthbound related

[@Lynk56]

A+ editing at 8:57 for that song choice. I just realized right now that that song IS tequila. Genuinely never noticed the similarities before

[@pugchamp419]

We got Mother 4 before GTA VI

[@luxrayblast]

Very neat, glad Chugga had this rare card game. You know what would be interesting? If you used this to pick what games to play on Stream.

[@ryanperalta536]

Earthbound will never escape fans self translating their games

[@MonkeyNess]

It's practically encouraged at this point lol

[@KorytheMaril]

I wish I could've have contacted you before, I've had scans downloaded for the cards and instruction manual for years. I remember trying to ask Tim Eldred, the guy behind CosmoDNA, to help with translation.

[@sewagecarrie]

amazing job! this is actually so sweet!

[@policeperson7589]

clearly, you weren't at Carson's housewarming party back in '06

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Amazing! I never even knew that the Mother Series had a spin-off board game!

[@Singecku4K]

Preservation is one of my biggest passions. Amazing video ❤

[@M64bros]

Such an interesting fascinating video you made Monkeyness 👍🏻

[@MonkeyNess]

Thank you!

[@StrykerMagnum]

Huh, this plays not unlike a faster paced, higher risk higher reward Catan. I like the inclusion of the extra die being the Gamble Die, meaning once you win a card, you have a *higher* chance of winning another card by getting an extra die. It's mathematically correct to Gamble at least once, so you're going to see crazy streaks and devastating losses instead of safe, boring plays. And with some of the single symbol cards being the Sombrero, you're further incentivized to Gamble, to extend your streak and to claim a protection against a lucky steal. I wonder if they thought about the mechanics that much when creating the game, or if they stumbled upon such a faced paced and thrilling gameplay loop mostly on accident by starting with the slot machine motif and then iterating...

[@Mike14264]

We'll be tabletop gaming with this one! 6:51 ooh yeah, the theme of Luigi's Casino!

[@no_uhs5249]

I don’t know who you are but I love you so much this is such a cool find and a great win for preservation