Category:Mother

Mother
Developer(s)	APE, HAL Laboratory, Brownie Brown
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Year introduced	1989
Genre(s)	RPG

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Earthbound is an RPG for the SNES. It had good success in Japan as Mother 2 and Nintendo ported it to the US with a big advertising campaign, but failed to sell as well as in Japan. Later, in Japan, it was re-released on the Game Boy Advance along with Mother (the first game) as Mother 1+2.

Mother, known as EarthBound outside Japan, is a trilogy of Japanese role-playing games released between 1989 and 2006, created by Shigesato Itoi for Nintendo. The first game, Mother was exclusive to Japan until it was released internationally as EarthBound Beginnings in 2015. The second game, EarthBound, was the first to be released outside of Japan. The third game, Mother 3, remains exclusive to Japan.

Rather than taking place in a high fantasy setting, the games take place in locations resembling real life. Thus, many of the game's aspects are more mundane. For example, rather than slaying a goblin with a sword, characters drive off a mad dog with a baseball bat. That said, there are still a number of fantasy and science fiction elements in the games' worlds.

Although the series became popular in Japan, EarthBound did poorly in its Western debut, and for two decades it was the only entry in the series to officially be released in the West. Nevertheless, the series has a worldwide cult following, which has translated the entire series into English. Meanwhile, characters from the Mother series have made appearances in other games. Most notable is the inclusion of Ness, the protagonist of EarthBound, in all six entries of the Super Smash Bros. series, as well as Lucas, the protagonist of Mother 3, in the latter four.