Poll: (A)ndrew (R)yan = (A)yn (R)and

[Bradd94]

Yes its delibarate.

What?!

Really?

Next you'll be telling me they got the name Atlas from somewhere else too.

[small]Just some friendly sarcasm [/small]

Sarcasm appreciated my fellow escapist.
[small]sarcasm appreciated [/small]

 

[Who Dares Wins]

What kind of an anagram is it if you have to add letters,: "Oh, guys Escapist is an anagram of Patrick, if you remove E,S,C and the second S, and add R,C,K w00t!!!"

 

[Jay Cee]

I see the correlation and I've previously read an article arguing the same ideal, but I struggle to see the spiritual connection between the two narratives.

However there's probably some subtlety that I've missed so I'll assume that it's significant.

 

[Comic Sans]

That blew your mind? Wait till you hear this...

Spoiler

These Pokemon are actually backwards words:
Ekans=snake
Arbok=kobra

The towns in Earthbound are named sequentially:
ONEtt
TWOson
THREEd
FOURside

The bushes in Mario use the exact same sprite as the clouds, except they're green.

And Muk is, well, you know.

 

[RanD00M]

You have a firm grasp of the obvious.You really do.
It's one of the most notable and most obvious ester eggs there are in the game.