It was originally in development for the Super Famicom shortly after the release of EarthBound, and was later transferred to the Nintendo 64DD.

EarthBound was released in Japan on August 27, 1994, and in North America on June 1, 1995 as a stand-alone title.

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EarthBound was released in Japan on August 27, 1994, and was well received.

At E3 in 1997, Nintendo's main game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, speculated that the first games to be released for the new system would be SimCity 64, Mario Artist, Pocket Monsters, and EarthBound 64.

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.

He is best known in the US for Nintendo's EarthBound, released in the 1990s ( released as MOTHER 2 in Japan ).

* August 27 — Nintendo releases Mother 2 for the Super Famicom in Japan, which was released almost a year later in North America on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as EarthBound.

EarthBound, known in Japan as Mother, is a role-playing video game series created by Shigesato Itoi for Nintendo.

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.

is a port release of Mother and EarthBound ( Mother 2 in Japan ) of the EarthBound series for the Game Boy Advance.

* EarthBound ( series ), a role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, known as Mother 2 in Japan.

* EarthBound ( Mother 2 in Japan )

* Porky Minch, in the Super Nintendo video game EarthBound and the Game Boy Advance game Mother 3 ( Japan only )

is one of the most influential cultural figures in Japan, known for his copywriting, essays, lyrics, Nintendo game creation, and as editor-in-chief of his popular website “ Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun .” (“ Almost ” Daily Itoi News ) He is best known outside of Japan as a game designer for his work on Nintendo's EarthBound series of games, as well as his bass fishing video game.

Giygas, known in Japan as or Giegue in the unreleased English translation of Mother, is the main antagonist of the video games Mother and EarthBound.

* Ness, a character from the EarthBound video game series ( Mother in Japan )

The poem is referenced in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game EarthBound, where a weapon is named the Casey Bat, which is the strongest weapon in the game, but will only hit 25 % of the time.

EarthBound features many traditional RPG elements: the player controls a party of characters who travel through the game's two dimensional world, which is composed of villages, cities, caves, and dungeons.

EarthBound is regarded by critics as one of the greatest RPGs on the SNES, as well as one of the best of the 1990s.

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* In the MOTHER / EarthBound video game series, Earth has different continent names and different cities but is still the same.

Mother is set in suburban USA, EarthBound is set in Eagleland ( an allusion to the United States ), and Mother 3 is set on the Nowhere Islands ( with some Western overtones ).

Many of the characters and settings are very similar, but the only explicitly returning character is Giygas, who swears revenge at the end of the first game ( evidenced by EarthBound < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Japanese subtitle: Gyiyg Strikes Back!

Mother 3 is the third and, according to Shigesato Itoi, possibly the final game in the EarthBound series.

Ness, the main character from EarthBound, is a playable character in all three installments of Super Smash Bros ..

In Brawl, Ness is joined by the Mother 3 character Lucas ( readily available at the start ), and the EarthBound item representation has been expanded to include the new Franklin Badge.

With the introduction of Assist Trophies in Brawl, Jeff from EarthBound is one of the many characters that briefly appear on the battlegrounds in the game.

Both EarthBound and Mother 3 feature a signature battle system in which it is possible to prevent a character's hit points from dropping to zero, even after sustaining a fatal blow.

is first seen in EarthBound, and is the father of Jeff, one of the game's protagonists.

Giygas, known in the Japanese versions as, is the leader of the alien race bent on conquering the universe, and the main antagonist of both Mother and EarthBound.

, called Pokey Minch in the English-language version of EarthBound, sometimes referred to as Master Porky / Master Pokey, is a primary antagonist of EarthBound, and the main antagonist of Mother 3.

In Allgame's review, EarthBound was declared " one of the most original role-playing games of the 1990s.

In stark contrast to the sword-and-sorcery settings of many Japanese role-playing games, the EarthBound series takes place in more modern USA-esque settings, although their stories are told from a Japanese perspective.

* EarthBound, a role-playing game for the Super Nintendo

* Frank Fly, a notable enemy from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video EarthBound

* Lilliput Steps, an area in the Super Nintendo video game EarthBound

* Starman ( EarthBound ), an enemy in the EarthBound series of video game

* Jeff ( EarthBound ), a character in the video game EarthBound

* Pokey Minch ( Porky Minch ), Ness ' portly, cowardly next-door neighbor in the Super Nintendo video game EarthBound ( Mother 2 ), and the Pig King in Mother 3

* Poo, video game character from EarthBound

* Tracy, a character in the video game EarthBound

Some of the video games he helped create while he worked there were Balloon Fight, EarthBound, and the Kirby games.

* Aloysius Minch, father of Pokey Minch, one of the main antagonists in the video game EarthBound.