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===EarthBound: The Halloween Hack=== | ===EarthBound: The Halloween Hack=== | ||
[[File:EB Halloween Hack.png|thumb|200px|right|The overworld of the Halloween Hack showing the protagonist, Varik.]] | [[File:EB Halloween Hack.png|thumb|200px|right|The overworld of the Halloween Hack showing the protagonist, Varik.]] | ||
'''EarthBound: The Halloween Hack''', also known as '''Radiation's Halloween Hack''' and sometimes informally "'''Press the B Button, Stupid!'''", is a | '''EarthBound: The Halloween Hack''', also known as '''Radiation's Halloween Hack''' and sometimes informally "'''Press the B Button, Stupid!'''", is a ROM hack of EarthBound created by a 16-year-old '''Toby "Radiation" Fox''' and released in 2008 for Starmen.net's Halloween Funfest. This hack is notable for changing EarthBound's generally lighthearted tone into a dark and disturbing experience while containing profanity and mature themes, which Fox attributed years later to a desire to make the hack seem more "mature." Gameplay-wise, it plays the same as EarthBound. | ||
The story takes place in an alternate timeline from EarthBound where Ness and his friends don't return. The protagonist is Varik from the Brandish series, from which the game took inspiration from. Varik is tasked with killing a monster who killed a young girl's mother. Varik begins his journey in [[Twoson]] and continues through the dark sewers as well as [[Winters]]-the "land of doom". | The story takes place in an alternate timeline from EarthBound where Ness and his friends don't return. The protagonist is Varik from the Brandish series, from which the game took inspiration from. Varik is tasked with killing a monster who killed a young girl's mother. Varik begins his journey in [[Twoson]] and continues through the dark sewers as well as [[Winters]]-the "land of doom". | ||
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====Trivia==== | ====Trivia==== | ||
*Several of this hack's elements have been reused in Undertale, | *Several of this hack's elements have been reused in Undertale, a much later and also EarthBound-inspired game by Toby Fox: | ||
**One of the flowers in Magicant says that Dr. Andonuts used it in an experiment, which matches the backstory of Undertale's main antagonist Flowey (himself a yellow daisy). | |||
**The concept behind the Amalgamates, grotesque combinations of multiple earlier enemies' bodies, would be revisited in Undertale as the identically-titled class of enemies, themselves formed from the fused bodies of reanimated monster corpses following a botched experiment. Incidentally, the track "Amalgam" (which plays while fighting amalgamates) samples audio from the [[Cave of the Past]]'s theme and [[Giygas]]' battle music. | |||
**A remix of the song "Megalovania", which plays during the final battle against Dr. Andonuts, is used during the battle against Sans at the end of the Genocide Route with its title reformatted to all-caps. | |||
*Fox went on to publicly disown The Halloween Hack years after its release, dismissing it on Twitter as a "bad rom hack with swears" and recommending that audiences avoid playing it. | |||
[[Category:Hacking]] | [[Category:Hacking]] | ||