Wow, such an in-depth look at the prototype. Thanks for the great video, Roo!

(I want that shirt. I suppose Starmen sell it)

I like Matt Alderman's Mullet... is pretty "rad" :P

sorry I couldn't help it

Funnily enough, good old Matt actually was (partly) the subject of a Seanbaby article a few years ago.  Apparently his reputation preceeds him: http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/sexy.htm

And Kurara, you're right, that shirt's available from Starmen.Net/Fangamer.  It's one of my favorite gamer shirts, along with this number from ThinkGeek.

I actually have that shirt in red!!  It's such a great shirt...  Gotta love the starmen.

Great video!  I can't believe you have one of those cartriges.  That is so cool!  I hope somebody gets back to you on how to dump it so we can all enjoy it!

I've never been able to find a decent rom or emulator to play this game.  I ended up trying to muddle my way through the GBA version on my Virtual boy, but that didn't work out well...  I still maintain that one day, I'll get to actually play this game.

I've been doing some reaserach into ROM dumping and found very little in the way of NES duping, but I did find this:

http://hackaday.com/2009/06/19/usb-reader-for-snes-game-carts/

I have the shirt in green. It's a great and cool shirt.

Also, great video. Enjoyable. It was pretty "rad"

Roo, I had to watch these videos once again, as I think they are genius and I was linked to them from the new Christina Hendr- errr, ahhh... I mean 3DS video.  I absolutely love the "timeline" of owners for each of the cartridges, this was brilliant!

My two best friends and I have been playing EB since it came out in 95, and immediatley it became one of our favorite games of all time. But only until about a few years ago I guess have we been really getting into collecting EB merchandise and really the whole EB "culture." Now it has become part of one of my daily internet rituals to check EBcentral daily- from that site is how I found out about you guys!

Like I was saying, I love how you really broke it down and showed the graphic timelines for each of the prototypes- EB is such a unique game because there are SO many strange and RARE pieces of merchandise, collectors items and promotional items- my friends and I will sit and have long winded discussions about the stories and history behind some of these treasures, especially ones such as the EB promotional ruler, mach pizza air freshener, EB pogs, etc 

Out of the 3 of us, EB is my friend Chris' absolute favorite- he was the wacko that won the EB ruler not too long ago for $776

earthboundcentral.com/2010/02/earthbound-ruler-sells-for-776/#comments

Did or would you ever have any interest in doing similar timeline research for some of these other rare EB gems? Things like the ruler and air freshener as far as I know have around less then 10 even in existence, since they were not mass produced. I think its so interesting to think that only a true handful of some of these items exist and even more interesting is where they have trickled down to over the years.

What even happened to EVERYONE's EB box?!?!?! I know!! Isn't funny how everyone who owned EB back in the day has NO idea what ever happened to it?! And now they go for over $100 on ebay. I can't help but to think about all the rulers and promotional newspapers that might have been tossed out by someone's mom cleaning their room. 

Thanks Roo- keep up the fantastic work!!