The series started in 1989 with the Japan-only release of Mother ( planned to be released in North America as " Earth Bound ") for the Famicom, and was then followed up by a sequel, released in North America as EarthBound for the Super NES in 1995, and followed up again 12 years later with the Japan only release of Mother 3 for the Game Boy Advance in 2006.

To avoid confusion, the game was dubbed EarthBound Zero by fan translation group Neo Demiforce, as Nintendo had since released the SNES sequel in the United States under the title EarthBound.

EarthBound ( known as Mother 2 in Japan ) is a distant sequel to the original Mother, with many characters, themes, and tunes borrowed from its predecessor.

Though Mother never saw the American marketplace, its sequel for the Super Famicom / SNES, EarthBound, did, and stars a young psychic boy by the name of Ness.

First seen in EarthBound, they make a return appearance in Mother 3, the Japanese sequel to EarthBound.

Giygas next appears in the Super NES sequel EarthBound.

While Mother 3 is the sequel to EarthBound and is the third game in the series, the story focuses on a new, unrelated cast of characters.

In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would be part of the writing and production teams for a sequel to COSMOS, to be called Cosmos: A space-time Odyssey, which is expected to be telecast in 2013.

Warner Bros. was willing to fund the project on the condition that Gibson sign for another Lethal Weapon sequel, which he refused.

Other roles for Campbell included the Michael Crichton adaptation Congo, the film version of McHale's Navy, and Escape From L. A., the sequel to John Carpenter's Escape From New York.

In 1916, " Food For Young Children " along with its sequel for adults, " How to Select Foods " was the first USDA guide to give specific dietary guidelines.

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

However, in an in-person interview held at the Apple Store Soho on August 16, 2012, Cronenberg commented that the financing for the " Eastern Promises " sequel had fallen through about two weeks earlier.

Irvin Shapiro, a publicist who was primarily responsible for the mainstream release of The Evil Dead, suggested that they next work on an Evil Dead sequel.

Coppola followed it with a critically successful sequel, The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ), which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Their enormous commercial success encouraged them to turn out sequel after sequel, and led to an explosion in horror film production in the UK that would last for nearly two decades.

* Tolkien's sketch for a proposed sequel ;

A sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, was released in 2002, and a serialized manga, Ghost in the Shell 1. 5: Human-Error Processer, which contained material that was planned for but not included in the sequel, was released in 2003.

A game of the same name developed by G-Artists and published by Bandai was released in 2005 for PlayStation Portable, but this is a sequel to the PlayStation 2 game, with a completely different storyline, setting, and gameplay.

He is executed in the sequel Death of a Transvestite ( 1967 ) after a struggle for the right to go to the electric chair dressed as Glenda.

* Dark Seed and its sequel, Dark Seed II, both adventure games for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, Macintosh and the PC, were published by Cyberdreams.

Michael Lehmann, the man behind the original film, however, has denied that a sequel's development, saying " Winona's been talking about this for years — she brings it up every once in a while and Dan Waters and I will joke about it, but as far as I know there's no script and no plans to do the sequel.

The Hezbollah Central Internet Bureau released a video game in 2003 entitled Special Force and a sequel in 2007 in which players are rewarded with points and weapons for killing Israelis.

In the " sequel " to Oedipus, Antigone, his four children are also punished for their parents having been incestuous.

However, the game is not a storyline sequel, and instead focuses on an assault on an alien planet, Stroggos, in retaliation for Strogg attacks on Earth.

* 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.

He also found time for philosophical speculations, and in 1830 he published his Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers of Man and the Investigation of Truth, which was followed in 1833 by a sequel, The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings.

A sequel to this game was released for the Game Boy in 1991, and a third entry to the series was published for the Nintendo 3DS handheld console in March 2012.

In the sequel Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow for Nintendo DS, it is a plant that uproots itself from the ground.

* Super Mario Galaxy 2, a 2010 3D platforming video game sequel for the Nintendo Wii

At E3 2006, Nintendo confirmed the game's status as a direct sequel to The Wind Waker, and released an extensive playable demo, including a multiplayer mode with " capture the flag " elements.

In the Nintendo Game Boy Advance game, Golden Sun, and its sequel Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Atalanta ( the Heavenly Huntress ) is a second-level Jupiter element Summon that requires the use of 2 Jupiter Djinn to summon.

The game was either ported, remade, or has had a sequel on every Nintendo home console since the NES as well as most portable consoles, including a re-release in 2004 on the Game Boy Advance as part of the Classic NES Series.

Another sequel was also released only in Japan for the Nintendo GameCube in 2004, entitled Kururin Squash !, which became the only title of the series to feature 3D computer graphics, as well as to appear on a home console.

Mario in combat with Koopas and Paratroopas in Super Mario World, having knocked the wings off one of the latter. In 1990's Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Koopa Troopa's design was changed slightly, as it was given shoes according to the colour of its shell and made bipedal, and although quadrupedal Koopas would be seen in Super Mario Land ( albeit as " Bombshell Koopas "-which were similar to Koopa Troopas except their shells exploded ) and its sequel, they would not be seen again until 2007's Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel, with bipedal Koopas remaining the most common design throughout the series.

A sequel, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, was announced for the Nintendo 3DS handheld system on June 7, 2011 at E3.

A sequel was revealed at E3 2011 for the Nintendo 3DS, and demonstrated as Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon at E3 2012.

Aside from those, Donkey Kong appeared in DK King of Swing on the GBA around the time of Jungle Beat, and in its sequel, DK Jungle Climber, for the Nintendo DS.

A sequel for the Nintendo DS, Yoshi's Island DS, was released in 2006.

Yoshi's Island DS, released on November 13, 2006 for the Nintendo DS, is the most direct sequel and incorporates many of the same gameplay aspects.

Wario is a playable character in two platformers for the Nintendo DS, the remake Super Mario 64 DS ( 2004 ) and the sequel Yoshi's Island DS ( 2006 ), as well as the 2001 puzzle game Dr. Mario 64, and the 2008 fighting game Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

A direct sequel titled Super Mario 64 2 was planned for the Nintendo 64DD.

Super Mario Bros. 2, later released in Japan as, is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System as a sequel to the 1985 game Super Mario Bros.

Nintendo of Japan's official sequel to Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan as Super Mario Bros. 2 in 1986.

Characters from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure were also featured in the 2005 Nintendo DS Weekly Shōnen Jump crossover game Jump Super Stars and its sequel Jump Ultimate Stars, including Jotaro Kujo and Dio Brando as playable characters.

A sequel to Super Mario 64 had been in the works for several years ; the cancelled games Super Mario 64 2 and Super Mario 128 were some ideas Nintendo had for a direct sequel.

At the pre-E3 conference of 2005, Nintendo announced Melee's sequel, Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

A year later, Nintendo released the sequel, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, for the Disk System.