FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026" ARE WE VERY OLD FRIENDS ? ? ? " / "No, I wouldn't say 'friends', LENOVO ThinkStation i7-13700 (Designed for CoPilot Intelligence). I wouldn't say that at all. " 000
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Really reinforced the concept of the computer and its subtle potentials as a 'friend' to me, in tandem with that old IBM AS/400 being such a readily-available source of comfort upon the death of my first mam-mam. My, how the times & circumstances have changed, though. 111
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Sierra On-Line's developers & family & early series protagonists - King Graham, Roger Wilco, Leisure Suit Larry - programmed as competing card players of various difficulty levels, and set to have casual conversations amongst themselves with unique permutations however you mix-and-matched them. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026All of those characters are programmed with their own distinct strategies btw. It's ironic now, at this juncture of history, but I remember first falling in love with computing via similar kinds of 'artificial intelligences' in a game released just 4 years before this. archive.org/details/msdo...archive.orgHoyle Official Book of Games - Volume 1Also ForAmiga, Atari ST, MacintoshDeveloped bySierra On-Line, Inc.Published bySierra On-Line, Inc.Released1989GenrePuzzle, Strategy/TacticsGameplayCards / TilesPerspectiveTop-downVisualFixed / Flip-sc... 100
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026... and a young woman that just got into the competition via her uncle's influence. 120
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Other peer challengers in the room she randomly generates in include 'Pavlov' the vocalist of punk rock band MEGABITES, the world's first Super Monopoly robot ROBOPOLY, a carrot-hating 2 year-old, a butch pro wrestler, the Monopoly Mansion's cleaning lady ...... 120
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026" 25 years old, type-O blood, Virgo. A trans-woman who's good at being considerate, but bad at applying makeup. No matter how hungover or sleep-deprived she is, she works hard to liven up the atmosphere. " Self-described 'girl in love'. ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%...ja.wikipedia.org戸田昭吾 - Wikipedia 120
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026...... has a trans character among its 35 computer-challengers. Probably puts her among the first 10 trans representations in gaming history, explicit or implicit. "MIDORI" (like the melon liqueur) youtu.be/4n9LRoTdF9c?...youtu.beモノポリー/Monopoly(SFC)：(3)ライトブルーの部屋(下)YouTube video by 藍澤千影 130
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026VERY FUN FACT One of the Monopoly Super Famicom games (1993) that Itoi supervised development of as president of the Japan Monopoly Association - with character designs by Shogo 'Akihito' Toda / Itoi's long-time assistant throughout the MOTHER series and his copywriting school days ...... 141
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I was there for it. The original 30-50 hogs within 3-5 minutes. 010
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Yes, perhaps you're overdue for a great-clown appointment to perk you right up. Also been thinking a lot lately about the merits of the particular hyper-fixation we all happened to land on, how its themes & subtext resonate especially powerfully today; shared 2 threads here on my main profile. 000
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Relating my foggy memory of the community's history on a Discord last week reminded me, my intent to "catch up again in another 10 years or so" as you left for the desert ended up getting pushed back a full extra decade now, simply had a more important promise to keep during the big 2016 gathering. 100
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Been looping some Paper Mario synth-rock tracks myself. Y'know, since drifting away from the old community, one of my main side-projects has been scheming up how to apply game design & play therapy principles to some kind of constitutional reform / truth-and-reconciliation process. 100
Reposted by FEUDYFEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Last year's "Secrets of MOTHER2" book isn't digitally available yet but still sold on JP Amazon, took extensive notes when I reviewed my copy with a translator app. Many different iterations of the final battle. Ness originally conceived as the last psychic across timespace to avoid assassination. 111
Reposted by FEUDYFEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I used to be SMNET's resident essayist & phantom-investor; ever since the 'Secrets' came out I've been delving deep into just how much of Itoi's life experiences informed the series. Was assuring an audience on Discord just a bit ago, even now MOTHER still reflects back some pretty timeless lessons. 121
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Truly all "Like a Shadow-Picture Lantern" - that tune at the end of M3 as one world ends yet again & something new begins. 010
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026...and a page in the official guidebook that Clyde translated for his book, suggests that M2's main villain's frantic obsession with the artificial-wisdom of his personal prediction machine, is part of what's frying his brain, perhaps obstructing any inward-examination that might've saved him. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Twoson has little lessons for judging the fundamentals of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, contrasting "Apple" Kid, a passionate if slobby engineer like Wozniak, to a Bill Gates stand-in that's all about appearances & pushing features no one asked for. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026... and yet, on the sidelines of M2/EB, missiles & bombs & shit are still getting sold to kids, spread across the globe by renegade mercenaries, problem never fully goes away. Before Kuwait ended M2's first draft even had a literal "desert storm" military operation scenario instead of the cult. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The end of the Cold War also happened right between games. M1's corrupt-business-magnate scenario was more concerned with 'proliferation of advanced weaponry', before 'real estate / economic bubble crashes' seemed to become a more salient existential concern... 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026West coast & NYC real estate markets get touched on throughout the game. Fourside seems to pose, even if "Tokyo's landlord" & then-richest man was a modest nice enough old guy, that power might corrupt anyone into an 80s-era Trump, obsessed with gold offices & tallest buildings. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Japan's labor/student movements suffered a generational setback after those 1960s protests. One of the writers that inspired them, Takaaki Yoshimoto, later became a lifelong friend & role model to Itoi, both feeling the movement was failed by its leaders' elitism. As the Stoic Club's tone suggests. 120
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026MOTHER2's earliest drafts were being written just as Japan's economic bubble was popping, another Gulf war was heating up, and as the Rodney King protests & police crackdowns were making international news. Last one surely jogged some youthful memories for Itoi. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I used to be SMNET's resident essayist & phantom-investor; ever since the 'Secrets' came out I've been delving deep into just how much of Itoi's life experiences informed the series. Was assuring an audience on Discord just a bit ago, even now MOTHER still reflects back some pretty timeless lessons. 121
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025...It is so chock-full of fun overambitious ideas that I can imagine someone like Reid entertaining his kids with it as a live improvised story-book; then switching it around as a trial-by-error team management lecture to his staff. Felt like a trip-sitter while I re-formatted it all. 001
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025...BTW, since our last exchange, I've engaged the new generation of MOTHER fan communities on Discord, and dusted off 20 pages of my summary-transcriptions of Itoi/M2 dev materials. Just weighing how/where to best 'drop' it this month. Simple wall-of-plaintext, can share in advance if you'd like. 100
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Of course, the anime's a ~500 hour commitment now ... so, 'Artur' of 'Library of Ohara' (on Twitter & his own site) would be a pro-follow, a superfan of our own ilk who had life profoundly changed by his fandom participation. Does weekly chapter analyses & re-posts top-tier animation from new eps. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025I was just thinking, I oughta tell Clyde that one of his first big-time commissions is GEARing up to be one of the only modern dense epic narratives likely to actually stick-the-landing, no big concern about premature death-of-author, or sidetracking like GRRM. You'll eventually recognize my avatar. 200
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Just registered as signore_giovanni, was going to check out SMNET’s server later but most will prob only recall me as an urban legend, open to anywhere else you feel hosts a critical mass of highly engaged fans. Also the Itoi novel @ Anna’s is just an unevenly scanned library copy, could do better. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025So that's most of what's been up the last 5 years or so. Happy hunting. Been putting off my own series writeup for a long time but I imagine this fount of nostalgia's close to running dry by now Maybe I'll at least start a factoid dump on my account later as a writing challenge. 010
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Anyway, "Kenisu's Magicant" blogspot hosts his nearly-complete translation of the original MOTHER ENCYCLOPEDIA. "NyaasuNoBouken" fully translated all 3 M1&2 novels. NOKOGODO's MotherForever is still up with interviews. And TheCuttingRoomFloor has a thorough chrolological compilation of EB64 assets. 210
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Oh, and I only recently realized the Fourside scenario was evoking the richest man in the world at the time of development - the mostly modest founder of Tokyo real estate empire 'MORI Building' - with 'MOnotoRI Building'. With Porky & his dad representing the more Trump-like NYC side of that world. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Also in the M2 guide, a scenario designer mentioned loving Ultima; presumably how we got dungeon designer BURIKKU RODO as a stand-in for Richard Garriott's Lord British / RODO BURITISSHU. And based on the team's software preferences, "Apple" Kid probably = Steve Wozniak, and Orange Kid = Bill Gates. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025The official M2 guide suggested there was supposed to be more lore involving other Eagleland 'natives' besides Little Tree. And an early screenshot showed the Tenda / GUMI tribe as just literal Pygmies / piGUMIs ... M2's prolonged development probably just naturally sanded off stereotyping content. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025That family supposedly only ever found a GOLD STATUE of the shogun ... and in a promotion for 1101's Mani Mani replica, Itoi mentioned its name and the way Moonsiders chant it just comes from untranslatable aboriginal lyrics he recalled from a schoolbook compilation of international childrens songs. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025I noticed in there that Lier X Agerate / HORANDO got renamed after historical figures in the Tokugawa treasure hunt that Itoi did his famed miniseries on. First for the Mizuno family that owns the land, then after the sketchy KURANDO that actually convinced them to invest in the hunt 100+ years ago. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025In those files every minor NPC with an event flag got distinguished by mostly-random character names from Twin Peaks. ~20 characters have a paragraph of lore to help the localization team/s with characterization; like how Belch would be on a promotion track if he wasn't just too disgusting to Gyiyg. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Mato did his 2021 'forensic analysis' article about uploads of a floppy disk Lindblom worked with right after narrowly avoiding the 1995 Tokyo subway attacks - 'EarthBound SNES Source Code Scripting Files' on Internet Archive, the files can be dropped into Chrome to easily search & translate. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025The connection between 'alien designers' Giger & Gyiyg, and Lassie's cowardly neighbor Porky, came from Itoi & Marcus Lindblom's dialogue earlier this year. Posted on the SMNET main page, coordinated & translated by Chewy - her 'yomuka.wordpress' site still has interviews about Itoi's early career. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025... and Itoi's solo novel 'Family Fall Out' (uploaded on Annas-Archive / untranslated) published between M1&2 has a sadistic throwaway chapter in the middle, "Misfortune of the Kanabunbun / drone beetle", that makes BunBuun / BuzzBuzz's fate less of a non-sequitor. 210
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025A dopey-eyed alien tribesman mascot shows up a lot, probably the predecessor to the Saturns/Dosei-sans when they were still the 'Idiot/Baka-san' tribe, before Itoi cribbed simplier & more marketable final designs from his 1980 'Penguin Gohan' gag manga. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Few mentions of a completely dropped Native American prodigy-shaman kid 'Little Tree', had his role divided up among other NPCs instead - probably since during development the supposedly autobiographical novel Itoi plucked him from was revealed as a fraud written by a segregationist. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Googling "MOTHER 2 scrapped content" should go to a SMNET thread with uploads of the main spritesheets & digital concept art; YouTuber MonkeyNess covered reports on the original exhibit. My overall impression is that human enemies were dialed down so M2's vibes would be less uneasy than M1's. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Early outlines had a scenario with a crashed UFO in a sandstorm & related spritesheets have a unit of dog-themed commandos, pitched just before the Gulf War suddenly drew down. Itoi clearly wanted to play around with anti-militant themes before those concerns became less pressing after the Cold War. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Last year's "Secrets of MOTHER2" book isn't digitally available yet but still sold on JP Amazon, took extensive notes when I reviewed my copy with a translator app. Many different iterations of the final battle. Ness originally conceived as the last psychic across timespace to avoid assassination. 111
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Bio it's all scattered far & wide, but I'll at least drop some leads here & now for you & anyone else interested, since the gradual implosion of the old-internet is certainly a concern for us archivists - plus I've been scouring your own guidebook scans myself recently. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Monotoli is 'Tokyo's landlord' suddenly behaving like the Trumps. Lier X, the homewrecker that kicked off the Tokugawa treasure hunt. The death of Buzz Buzz, cribbed from Itoi's 1st solo novel. And M2 almost had a Gulf War / Roswell scenario, instead of a cult based on a postwar 'dancing religion'. 200
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025It's been a 'holistically rewarding' series for sure. Gyiyg is somehow H.R.Giger, a Vonnegut villain, John Lennon's trauma, & probably that psychic kid from the Twilight Zone all smushed togeter. Porky is the nextdoor neighbor from Lassie growing into the two-faced doctor from Lost in Space ... 100
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025"BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE FINDING OUT NEW THINGS ABOUT [Janis Joplin] EVERY DAY." Somehow, even decades after her death ... Just a statement I think unironically resonates with the whole MOTHER series even 30 years after we all starting gathering around it. Still fun for me (Gio) to ponder & write about. 110
FEUDY @feudy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025So 30 ROCK had a line where this geeky late night show writer is setting up his coworker for a prank by advising her on how to prepare for her next role in a biopic, saying she ought to do all her Janis Joplin-related research by regularly checking the Wikipedia article that he's secretly editing - 110
