Shigesato Itoi-signed EarthBound cart auctioned to help cancer patient

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Earthbound creator Shigesato Itoi has signed a copy of his cult classic SNES RPG as part of an effort to raise money for cancer patient James Hensiek.
The folks at Fangamer have detailed the entire account at Earthboundbash. You see, prior to Hensiek's diagnosis, he gave his pristine copy of Earthbound to his friend Ben Bizzle. When Bizzle heard about Hensiek's illness years later, he set out to use his copy of Earthbound to raise money for his pal's treatment.
How, you ask? It wasn't easy as Bizzle didn't have any connections to the video games industry, let alone the Japanese celebrity-cum-game-developer. So Bizzle did what he could: he wrote a forum post explaining his desire on the Earthbound fan-site, Starmen.Net. After months of calls, e-mails, logistic challenges, and help from Lindsay Nelson - a superfan who helped translate Mother 3 and collaborated with Itoi by translating his popular Hobonichi Planners - the cart was handed off to Fangamer, then Itoi's office, Hobonichi.
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