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NintenNinten, named Ken in the novelization,[1] and Douglas Halloway in the gamebook adaptation[2], is the main character and protagonist in EarthBound Beginnings, the first game of the EarthBound series. He lives together with his mother, his sisters and his dog in a house in the northern outskirts of Podunk.
Ninten's name is derived from the first six letters of Nintendo. Ninten's primary choice of weapons are baseball bats, and occasionally the slingshot and boomerang. He is uniquely the only character capable of using PSI abilities to not learn any offensive PSI attacks, instead his PSI abilities mainly specialize in support and providing stat buffs to the main party.
...the port of Mother included in Mother 1+2 is a Japanese version of the old English NES prototype, and retains all of the censoring and gameplay changes?
...just south of Wess's house, there is a tree with insignificant writing carved into it?
