What happens when Nintendo cancels your favorite video game of all time? If it’s 1999 and you have a dial-up internet connection at your parents house, you and your fan site might take matters into your own hands. ROM hacking, fanfiction, exposés, guerrilla marketing, international intrigue, CEOs, and stinky smells. Wild teenage idealists duke it out with a corporate goliath in this online coming-of-age story told by the netizens who lived it.

This independent documentary, a decade in the making, presents the 20-year saga behind EarthBound: gaming’s weirdest cult classic. Featuring a colorful cast of interviewees combined with outrageous reenactments and eccentric narrative techniques, EarthBound, USA is as wild as the fandom that inspired it.