Mother 2 / Earthbound
Thanks to: Vince { The Mother 2-aholic} for the info and pictures for this feature.


The title screen. Were they afraid of getting sued by George Lucas, maybe..?
 

When Nintendo released the second Mother game in America (and Europe) they felt obligated to make some censorship/graphics changes. Some of them are just silly while most of them are totally uncalled for...
 
To the right you see how the BAR sign was replaced by the much more politically correct CAFE.


Kinds aren't allowed into bars in America ya know...

 
 
 
Nudity

On one occasion in Mother 2 the hero is naked... This was changed to a pair of nice blue and white striped pyjamas.
  

 

Cosmetic changes...

 


Nusutto = Theif, Stolen...
 

Most of the changes in the conversion doesn't have anything to do with real censorship... Like the one above.
 
 
 
The Hospital

The picture to the left is from the original but on the right picture they erased the 'red cross' logo for some reason... odd.
  
 
 
The Statue

A squid staty...? No it's waaay to add for the American kids won't you say?.. . Let's make it a pencil! ¨_^
  
 
 
Verb tensen corrections...

The most uncalled for change in teh whole game. You don't win in Earthbound you win... Get it? No, well neither do we...
  

 
 

 

 

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