/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1269008
Wow, that's an interesting way to put it.

I played earthbound when I was just about 9, and as I did I dreamed of being that boy who went on an adventure across the world with his friends.

I collected a shoebox of things that reminded me of Earthbound; a bent key, a french fry box, a broken TV antenna, a baseball... it seems a bit crazy now, but to my young mind, the more things I had that related to Ness or his friends, the more I would be like him.

I adventured around the the train-tracks near my house with a backpack and baseball bat pretending to fight Starmen and Sharks. I'd climb fences into other-peoples back hills and unmaintained forest just to explore.

So, I guess that's what I remember most about Earthbound, the feeling that maybe I could be a hero just like Ness, and the thrill of exploring a new place, heedless of the danger it might possess.