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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.
[1] 1UP.com described the site as "the definitive fan community for EarthBound on the web" [11] and Shacknews called it the fan community's "one-stop" resource for a decade. [1] Though EarthBound was more obscure at the time, the site quickly grew in popularity and featured "constant updates" and a burgeoning community by 1999.
Mother 3 is a single-player role-playing video game similar to previous games in the Mother series. The player controls a party of playable characters who explore the game's two-dimensional fictional world, primarily shown from a top-down perspective.
EarthBound was released on June 5, 1995, in North America. [35] The game sold about 140,000 units in the United States, [37] for a total of approximately 658,000 units sold worldwide. EarthBound ' s poor sales in the west were attributed to its satirical marketing campaign, based on gross-out humor. [38] [39] [40] [41]
It is the Game Boy Advance sequel to the 1995 Super NES video game EarthBound, titled Mother 2 in Japan. [1] The American EarthBound fan community, in support of the series, had rallied support via events and petitions for the release. One such petition used custom petition software and hand-checked name verification, and the 819 pages of ...
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.
Emiliano Rodolfo Rosales-Birou (born April 8, 1990), also known as Emile Rosales [2] and better known by his online alias Chuggaaconroy or Chugga for short, [note 1] is an American YouTuber, Internet personality and Let's Player.
The EarthBound fan community anticipated a sequel, and a North American release of Mother 3 was announced as EarthBound 64. [7] Nintendo displayed a playable version of the game at its Space World 1999 trade show, where IGN described the development's progress as "very far along" [8] and half complete.