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>questionable marketing generally blamed
I was around for the marketing of EarthBound and I can confirm it was terrible and made me dismiss and avoid the game. When I finally played it many years later I enjoyed it a lot. I wish that I had played it when I was younger.
The 90s got really fucking stupid with gross out humor for kids. Scratch and sniff advertisements with vomit and rotten garbage to sell your funny kids vs. aliens RPG? Whoever thought that up should be forcefed vomit and trash. Now THAT would be funny.