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Random: This EarthBound-themed Rube Goldberg Machine is packed with references


The EarthBound box is sitting on the keyboard, because it wants to learn how to play music
Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life

The Rube Goldberg music machine – you know, where marbles hit a teapot and then bounce down a staircase made of xylophone (which sounds crazy if you haven’t seen the video) – was just once the realm of engineering and genius music, like amazing thing Wintergatan marble machine or Music video OK Go.

At some point, people figured out how to build these machines in 3D modeling software, like Blender, and suddenly the process was a little more accessible. Instead of needing all the crafting skills of a carpenter, a music engineer and a marble magician, all you need is… the ability to create 3D artwork, technical skills Animation features and perfect timing to match the animation with the music. Okay, maybe the barrier to entry is just a difference shapeinstead of lower.

Anyway. All that being said, this particular addition to the very specifically modeled 3D music player genre-Rube-Goldberg has an extra catch: It’s completely themed around the Mother 2, or EarthBoundas it is known here and it plays”Eight Melodies“, the lullaby at the heart of the EarthBound.

Check it out:

Details! References! It’s gorgeous!

From the guest appearances of many Mr Saturn and the plethora of monsters you battle in the early game, to all the marbles dressed up as characters, to the whole thing that started in Ness’ house – merely lovely. There’s even a cute little reference to the Octopus Statue, which was used as a roadblock in the original version of Mother 2 before they were replaced by the Iron Pencil Statue in Earthbound’s localization!

Shigesato Itoi herself, creator of the Mother series, even noticed, reposting the video on her own social media feed; The official Hobonichi Mother account (representing Mother-related merchandise) does the same:

… We should really play EarthBound again, shouldn’t we?

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