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EarthBound, released in Japan as Mother 2: Gīgu no Gyakushū, [nb 2] [1] [2] is a 1994 role-playing video game developed by Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as the second entry in the Mother series.
Mother [a] (known as EarthBound outside Japan) is a video game series that consists of three role-playing video games: Mother (1989), known as EarthBound Beginnings outside Japan, for the Family Computer; Mother 2 (1994), known as EarthBound outside Japan, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System; and Mother 3 (2006) for the Game Boy Advance.
Marcus Lindblom is an American video game developer known for his English localization of the 1994 video game EarthBound. Lindblom spent his youth in the United States, and dropped out of college to move to Japan with his wife. After four years, he returned to college in the United States and began to work at Nintendo of America's call center.
EarthBound was followed by the Japan-only sequel Mother 3 for the Game Boy Advance in 2006. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of EarthBound ' s U.S. release, Mother was released globally as EarthBound Beginnings for the Wii U Virtual Console in June 2015, and was released alongside EarthBound for Nintendo Switch Online in February 2022.
Colin Campbell of Polygon wrote that "few gaming communities are as passionate and active" as EarthBound 's, [10] and 1UP.com 's Bob Mackey wrote that no game was as poised to have a cult following. [11] Wired described the amount of EarthBound "fan art, videos, and tributes on fan sites like EarthBound Central or Starmen.net" as mountainous. [9]
Porky Minch was created for EarthBound, titled Mother 2 in Japan, by the game's director, Shigesato Itoi.In the localized version, he was called Pokey. [1] Itoi discussed how his bad disposition may have been caused by being neglected by his parents.
The ROMs of the game and its sequel were formerly offered by the owner Randel Reiss for free download. In 2021, however, the rights to both games were purchased by Piko Interactive, leding the download links for the ROMs to disappear from Technopop's website [121], but they are still available for free download on Zophar's Domain.
Botanica: Earthbound Collector's Edition is the second game in the series released exclusively on Big Fish Games on December 14, 2013. Users can play as two characters, Dr. Ellie Wright and Ian Garrett, as they try to find their way back to earth.