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{{Game | {{Game | ||
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|image= | |image=EarthBound Beginnings boxart.png | ||
|title=Mother | |title=Mother | ||
|developer={{colist|APE|Pax Softnica}} | |developer={{colist|APE|Pax Softnica}} | ||
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|players=1 | |players=1 | ||
|modes=[[Single player]] | |modes=[[Single player]] | ||
|followed by=[[ | |followed by=[[EarthBound]] | ||
|series=Mother | |series=Mother | ||
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}} | }} | ||
{{Wikibound|EarthBound Beginnings}} | {{Wikibound|EarthBound Beginnings}} | ||
''' | '''EarthBound Beginnings''', known as '''Earth Bound''' in-game and in Japan as '''Mother''', is an [[RPG]] developed by [[Ape]] and [[Pax Softnica]] and published by [[Nintendo]] for the [[Famicom]] in [[1989]]. It is the first entry in the {{c|Mother}} series. It is modeled on the gameplay of the {{c|Dragon Quest}} series, but is set in the late 20th-century United States, unlike its fantasy genre contemporaries. | ||
Writer and director Shigesato Itoi pitched ''Mother'''s concept to Shigeru Miyamoto while visiting Nintendo's headquarters for other business. Though Miyamoto rejected the proposal at first, he eventually gave Itoi a development team. A North American version of the game was localized into English under the moniker ''Earth Bound'', but was eventually abandoned as commercially nonviable. A copy of this prototype was later found and circulated on the Internet under the informal title ''EarthBound Zero''. The game was eventually released globally as ''EarthBound Beginnings'' for the [[Wii U Virtual Console]] in June 2015 and [[Nintendo Switch Online]] in February 2022. | Writer and director Shigesato Itoi pitched ''Mother'''s concept to Shigeru Miyamoto while visiting Nintendo's headquarters for other business. Though Miyamoto rejected the proposal at first, he eventually gave Itoi a development team. A North American version of the game was localized into English under the moniker ''Earth Bound'', but was eventually abandoned as commercially nonviable. A copy of this prototype was later found and circulated on the Internet under the informal title ''EarthBound Zero''. The game was eventually released globally as ''EarthBound Beginnings'' for the [[Wii U Virtual Console]] in June 2015 and [[Nintendo Switch Online]] in February 2022. | ||
''Mother'' was the sixth best-selling game of 1989 in Japan, where it sold about 400,000 copies and received a "Silver Hall of Fame" score from Famitsu magazine. | ''Mother'' was the sixth best-selling game of 1989 in Japan, where it sold about 400,000 copies and received a "Silver Hall of Fame" score from Famitsu magazine. The game was praised for its similarities to the Dragon Quest series and its simultaneous parody of the genre's tropes; however, many considered its sequel [[EarthBound]] to be similar and a better overall implementation of Mother's gameplay ideas, with the game's high difficulty level polarizing critics, along with balance issues. The game was re-released in Japan on the single-cartridge compilation [[Mother 1+2]] for the [[Game Boy Advance]] in 2003. | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:Mother FC title.png|Japanese title screen | File:Mother FC title.png|Japanese title screen | ||
File:Earthbound Beginnings NES title.png|International title screen | File:Earthbound Beginnings NES title.png|International title screen | ||
File: | File:Mother Box Art.png|Japanese box art | ||
File:Nintendo Power Earth Bound Preview.png|A Nintendo Power preview for Mother in #18 | File:Nintendo Power Earth Bound Preview.png|A Nintendo Power preview for Mother in #18 | ||
File:Mother Japanese Flyer.jpg|Japanese flyer | File:Mother Japanese Flyer.jpg|Japanese flyer | ||
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==Story== | ==Story== | ||
The game follows the young Ninten as he uses his great-grandfather's studies on psychic powers to fight hostile, formerly inanimate objects and other enemies. The game uses random encounters to enter a menu-based, first-person perspective battle system. | |||
From the title screen: | From the title screen: | ||