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''EarthBound'' takes place on Earth in the year 199X in the country of [[Eagleland]]. Throughout the game, there are four playable characters come to compose the party in the game; [[Ness]], [[Paula]], [[Jeff Andonuts]] and [[Poo]]. Ness remains the lead character, a silent protagonist, for the entirety of the story. He is a young boy from [[Onett]] and is characterized by his love for baseball. He also possesses psychic abilities strong enough to affect cosmic events. Paula is the second main character in the game. She is a young girl from [[Twoson]] where her mother runs a preschool out of their home. Like Ness, she also possesses powerful psychic abilities. Jeff, the third character to join the party, is a young boy who resides at a boarding school in the northern country of [[Winters]] in the region of [[Foggyland]]. The son of the famed professor [[Dr. Andonuts]], Jeff is a child prodigy who can fix almost anything. The last character to be acquired is Poo. He is the oldest of the group, a residing prince from the distant land of [[Dalaam]] in the far east region of [[Chommo]]. He is presented as a powerful martial arts master.

[[File:Mother 2 Crash Site.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Buzz Buzz appears moments after a bright light engulfs the meteor]]The story begins when Ness is awakened by a meteor that has plummeted to the earth near his home, whereupon he proceeds to investigate the crash site. When Ness gets to the crash site he discovers a police road block and Pokey Minch, his friend and neighbor, who tells him to go home. Later, Ness is woken up again by Pokey knocking at his door, demanding help to find his brother Picky. They find him near the meteor sleeping behind a tree and wake him up. Then the three encounter an insect from the meteor named [[Buzz Buzz]] who informs Ness that he is from the future where the "universal cosmic destroyer", [[Giygas]], dominates the planet. Buzz Buzz senses great potential in Ness and instructs him to embark on a journey to seek out and record the melodies of eight "[["Your Sanctuary"|sanctuaries]]," unite his own powers with the Earth's and gain the strength required to confront Giygas.

After an encounter with some hostile gang members, Ness reaches the first sanctuary on a mountain above his hometown. He then proceeds to the next town, Twoson, where he rescues a girl named Paula from the Happy Happyist Cult and discovers that [[Pokey Minch|Pokey]] (who has been the high priest of cult) is working against him. Together, Ness and Paula discover the second sanctuary. With the help of the [[Runaway Five]], a band that Ness and Paula free from debt, the two arrive in [[Threed]], where they are ambushed and captured. While in captivity, Paula sends a telepathic message to a boy named Jeff, who resides at a boarding school. Jeff responds to the message and acquires his father's [[Sky Runner]], a flying vehicle, in order to reach Threed. After crashing the Sky Runner, Jeff rescues Ness and Paula and joins their group. The three of them travel to [[Saturn Valley (EarthBound)|Saturn Valley]], a land populated by a strange race of creatures called [[Mr. Saturn]]s. There, the party learns that [[Master Belch|a monster has been kidnapping the populace]]. Ness and the group proceed to defeat the monster and reach the third sanctuary above Saturn Valley. The party then travels through the desert to reach the next city.

Upon reaching [[Fourside]], the group again helps the Runaway Five out of debt and visits a department store only to have Paula kidnapped. Ness and Jeff proceed to find her, and along the way, destroy a hallucination-projecting relic called the [[Evil Mani Mani]] statue. The two boys continue their search only to discover that Pokey and the Mayor have taken Paula. However, because Ness and Jeff defeated the Evil Mani Mani statue, the mayor returns to normal. Pokey escapes in the Mayor's helicopter and Paula rejoins the group. After returning to Threed, Jeff repairs the Sky Runner, and they set flight for Winters to discover the fourth sanctuary. The group then cross the ocean and arrive in Summers where Ness falls unconscious and dreams of a far-off land known as Dalaam. There, a young prince named Poo has completed his training and is instructed to join the party on their journey. The group then returns to Fourside and are able to discover the fifth sanctuary.

The four then procure a boat and travel to [[Scaraba]] where they explore a pyramid in the desert. Ness and the group then travel to [[Dalaam]] and find the sixth sanctuary there, after which they acquire a submarine and travel into the [[Deep Darkness]], a path leading them under the earth. There, they find [[Tenda Village]], a small community populated by extremely [[Tenda|shy creatures]]. After acquiring the [[Shyness book|book of overcoming shyness]], Ness is able to speak to the shy villagers who allow them passage to the [[Lost Underworld]]. There, they discover the last two sanctuaries.

world composed of his dreams, [[Magicant (EarthBound)|Magicant]]. There, he

EarthBound seeems to have a few samples/homages to other songs. For example the Onett Trumpet Player plays Symphony NO.9 Movement 2,The music that plays while fighting [[Frank]] or a Hippie sounds like the beginning of Johnny B. Goode,The Megaton Walk sounds remarkably like a segment from The Beatles "SGT Peppers Lonely Hearts Club". These samples of music caused controversy for Nintendo of America when the company tried to approve the game for Digital Distribution on the wii's virtual console,Hirokazu Tanaka stated in an interview "The sampling issue is a little sensitive because,well I dont know for sure,but it sounds like that is one of the reasons EarthBound is not able to come out in america" EarthBound was finally approved for the virtual console,when the announcement on Nintendo Direct was made Satoru Iwata mentioned the fan outcry being one of the reasons it was finally released on WiiU's Virtual Console

*The ESRB, the American rating system for video games, rated EarthBound for the Wii Virtual Console. This rating, however, was a mistake.<ref>[http://www.infendo.com/no-earthbound-for-vc-esrb-rating-a-mistake/ Article of the Wii's VC's Earthbound ESRB rating]</ref>  The game was later confirmed for a Wii U Virtual Console release, scheduled for late 2013.<ref>[http://earthboundcentral.com/2013/04/earthbound-on-virtual-console-coming/ Earthbound Central's Article on the Wii U's VC's Earthbound release]</ref>