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From an 1994 Famitsu article: https://starmen.net/mother2/publications/ https://starmen.net/mother2/publications/ Itoi refers to the battle backgrounds jokingl
by Tiktaalik 11y ago
From an 1994 Famitsu article: https://starmen.net/mother2/publications/ https://starmen.net/mother2/publications/
Itoi refers to the battle backgrounds jokingly as a "video drug". This is noteworthy because the dummied-out Video Relaxant item in EarthBound was originally known as "Video Drug" in MOTHER 2, even though the item was dummied out in that game, too. So apparently that's what "Video Relaxant" refers to: the battle backgrounds.
The battle backgrounds were all made by one guy, who Itoi says was a real background graphics geek. The guy spent two years doing nothing but working on the backgrounds! He says he thinks there are about 200 different ones.