"I Rent the Ocean" contains samples from Aulis Sallinen's Winter Was Hard and work by Philip Glass, and the song "Remi" contains samples from the video game EarthBound.
The film is perhaps well-known because one of its scenes was the basis of the second form of alien Giygas including lines and shape, in the SNES video game EarthBound.
He is best known in the US for Nintendo's MOTHER 2, released in 1994 in Japan and in 1995 in North America (as Earthbound).
When he comes to bat, his fans often sing a cheer that goes to the tune of a song from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game EarthBound.
EarthBound Saga is a short movie series based on the SNES videogame EarthBound.
The Belle of Louisville, a steamboat of historic significance located in Louisville, Kentucky (the setting for the earthbound portions of the book), occurs as a character in the book, in which it is revealed that the steamer has been imbued with an onboard artificial intelligence.