No the adults aren't drinking beer, they're at the cafe slurring their speech and knocking themselves against the wall on coffee okay!
>>12783739the wise old man from goemon getting sad because his car magazines were destroyed (porn mags in japan)
>>12783739Bionic Commando for NES where they go through all the effort to rename the Nazis as "Badds", and then "Master D" Hitler himself strides in at the final stage to get his head blown up.
>>12783739It's funny how the censorship differs between Mother 1 and 2. In Mother 1 you could literally drink beer and they didn't censor that, but blood on enemy sprites was censored. In EarthBound it's the reverse, there are enemies with blood on them but alcohol was censored.
>>12783814I think it's because Mother 1 has a segment where you, as a minor, drink alcohol and get whisked off to jail for it. Changing it to coffee there would make even LESS sense than adults slurring their speech because of "coffee".
>>12783751Porn magazines getting censored is always immensely frustrating to find out about later on. They did that in MML1 and in Misadventures of Tron Bonne, both of which completely ruined the punchlines associated with finding them.
Played enough older titles that alternatives to alcohol or porn mags don't normally stick with me, but there is one exception.Protag kills a child while under the influence of "jalapeno juice."
>>12784494We’ve all been there before!
it's sake in the jap version
The weirdest part of this one is that not only they changed it from a Bar to a cafe, but also that they changed the owner's name, from Borges (a reference to cult literary author Jorge Luis Borges) to, uh... jaki, for whatever reason.Also happy 32 anniversary to Mother 2!
>>12783814>>12784483Also Mother 1 didn't actually release so the censors probably didn't go over it as much. The FF2 (NES) USA Prototype also has references to death and stuff
>>12784494>Japaleno juice>ChocolateDark Savior is a trainwreck
>>12783751Meanwhile there's an entire Ed Edd and Eddy episode devoted to Eddy trying to find where Ed hid Eddy's brother's magazines. They never say they're porn magazines, but it could not be any more obvious.
>>12787604Home Alone, one of the most popular family movies, has an entire scene where the joke is Kevin can finally look at an old sibling's nudie magazines and he's young enough he doesn't understand why it's just pages of naked women.anyway, most stupid censorship to me is NoA being so draconion in the 90s that they localized the twin witches fusing into their hot younger form as "Double Dynamite Attack". The original Japanese is "Sexy Dynamite Attack".
>>12784483>Changing it to coffee there would make even LESS senseConsidering that children generally don't drink coffee and associate it with adults, it would be brushed off as a joke taken seriously. That said, they could've just made it root beer
>>12787618My 10 year old son drinks it, touch grass
