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'''Mother''' is the predecessor to [[EarthBound]] (Mother 2), the first game in the Mother series to be released in English. An English prototype exists but was never released. Mother has since been released on the [[Game Boy Advance]] as part of [[Mother 1+2]]; this also has not been localized. The NES version was later localized and released for the first time worldwide in North America, Europe and Australia on June 15, [[2015]] via the [[Wii U Virtual Console]], under the title '''EarthBound Beginnings'''.
'''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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This is the first game in the Mother series. For other games in the series see the Mother category.

Box artwork for Mother.
Box artwork for Mother.
Mother
Developer(s)APE, Pax Softnica
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Year released1989
System(s)NES
Followed byMother 2
SeriesMother
Designer(s)Shigesato Itoi
Genre(s)RPG
Players1
ModesSingle player
Rating(s)CERO All agesESRB Teen
EarthBound Beginnings
Developer(s)APE, HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Year released2015
System(s)Wii U, Nintendo Switch
LinksEarthBound Beginnings ChannelSearchSearch
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EarthBound Beginnings

Mother is the predecessor to EarthBound (Mother 2), the first game in the Mother series to be released in English. An English prototype exists but was never released. Mother has since been released on the Game Boy Advance as part of Mother 1+2; this also has not been localized. The NES version was later localized and released for the first time worldwide in North America, Europe and Australia on June 15, 2015 via the Wii U Virtual Console, under the title EarthBound Beginnings.

  • Japanese title screen

    Japanese title screen

  • International title screen

    International title screen

Table of Contents

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Gameplay
Walkthrough
  1. The Podunk Area
  2. The Magicant Area
  3. The Merrysville Area
  4. The Southeastern Area
  5. Yucca Desert
  6. The Youngtown Area
  7. The Ellay Area
Appendices

The Mother logo

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Mother series
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