Pick Up the PHONE!!
In my many travels through the land of Earthbound (read: the last time I played it), I noticed that during the beginning of the game, Pokey gets onto Ness if he tries to leave without answering the phone. He says his father always gets onto him if he doesn't answer it within three rings, doesn't he?...DOESN'T HE!? Oh, he does, my friends, he does. Which made me think (dangerous as that action may seem), certainly, if he has to answer the phone, he must have one?
The answer is nay (no, in English. I dunno what "nay" is). Seriously, go to Pokey's house and look around - no phone in the main room, no phone upstairs, not even in the vicinity of their front yard! How, exactly, does he answer it within the first three rings if he doesn't even know where it's located? I checked around, and using a few of my sources (shhh!), I've determined it's one of three possibilities:
A)Pokey is lying. This seems the most suitable to me. He does lie to you later on in the game, and it's far more logical than the other two. However, that doesn't stop me from listing them...
B)Pokey and his family are secretly using Ness' phone when he and his family are asleep. This sort of fits in with Pokey's personality, but what with Ness being so formidable with the baseball bat and any little sound waking him up (not to mention the fact that his mother apparently NEVER sleeps), I doubt he'd get within 3 feet of the house.
C)Pokey has a cellphone. Well, think about it...it could ring, and Pokey's fat rolls could hide a plethora of objects. Oh, and he could probably put something in those pockets of his, too. Forgot about those...
Now, unless Pokey's head works like the phone guy in Dalaam or the library has a public-access terminal, one of these is surely the answer. My only question is, why would the game designers overlook such a simple sprite as a telephone when Pokey makes such obvious reference to it? Well, that's not entirely true - I do have other questions, lots of 'em, but it just wouldn't sound as dramatic that way, would it? No, I didn't think so...
In my many travels through the land of Earthbound (read: the last time I played it), I noticed that during the beginning of the game, Pokey gets onto Ness if he tries to leave without answering the phone. He says his father always gets onto him if he doesn't answer it within three rings, doesn't he?...DOESN'T HE!? Oh, he does, my friends, he does. Which made me think (dangerous as that action may seem), certainly, if he has to answer the phone, he must have one?
The answer is nay (no, in English. I dunno what "nay" is). Seriously, go to Pokey's house and look around - no phone in the main room, no phone upstairs, not even in the vicinity of their front yard! How, exactly, does he answer it within the first three rings if he doesn't even know where it's located? I checked around, and using a few of my sources (shhh!), I've determined it's one of three possibilities:
A)Pokey is lying. This seems the most suitable to me. He does lie to you later on in the game, and it's far more logical than the other two. However, that doesn't stop me from listing them...
B)Pokey and his family are secretly using Ness' phone when he and his family are asleep. This sort of fits in with Pokey's personality, but what with Ness being so formidable with the baseball bat and any little sound waking him up (not to mention the fact that his mother apparently NEVER sleeps), I doubt he'd get within 3 feet of the house.
C)Pokey has a cellphone. Well, think about it...it could ring, and Pokey's fat rolls could hide a plethora of objects. Oh, and he could probably put something in those pockets of his, too. Forgot about those...
Now, unless Pokey's head works like the phone guy in Dalaam or the library has a public-access terminal, one of these is surely the answer. My only question is, why would the game designers overlook such a simple sprite as a telephone when Pokey makes such obvious reference to it? Well, that's not entirely true - I do have other questions, lots of 'em, but it just wouldn't sound as dramatic that way, would it? No, I didn't think so...
