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Starmen.net (1999)
EarthBound fans, years of petitions, and one homemade English Mother 3.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 7
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- Under Construction
What it does
On reveal: +0 to +4 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 7 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 1999
A fan site and forum for EarthBound and the Mother games, named after the series' best-known villain, the Starman.
Its members lobbied Nintendo for years, released their own English translation of Mother 3 in 2008 (100,000 downloads in a week) and spun off the Fangamer shop. Toby Fox, later the maker of Undertale, grew up on its forums.
In 1999: Reid Young's EarthBound page, begun in 1997, became Starmen.net with co-founder Clyde 'Tomato' Mandelin and soon petitioned Nintendo for Mother on Game Boy Color.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
Under Construction: Homepages, fan shrines and the GIFs that decorated them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1999 page.
Put it on your site
Run Starmen.net, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1999, then plays a short scene. Want Starmen.net in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
