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'''Mother''', officially known outside of Japan as '''EarthBound Beginnings''', 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 [[:Category:Mother|Mother series]]. It is modeled on the gameplay of the [[:Category:Dragon Quest|Dragon Quest series]], but is set in the late 20th-century United States, unlike its fantasy genre contemporaries. Mother 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. | |||
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, but was 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 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. | |||
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