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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.
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]
[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.
Ness is the protagonist of EarthBound, the second game in the three-part Mother series. He was created by Shigesato Itoi, the creator of the Mother series, who intended the game to have real characters whom players would recognize in the people around them. [2]
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.
Mother 3 is set in the fictional Nowhere Islands, an unknown length of time after the events of Mother 2. [6] The game begins with twins Lucas and Claus and their mother Hinawa preparing to return home to Tazmily Village after visiting Hinawa's father, Alec, who lives in the northern reaches of the Islands.
Enemy Zero [a] is a 1996 horror-themed adventure video game for the Sega Saturn, developed by Warp and directed by Kenji Eno.Players assume the role of an astronaut who awakens from cryogenic sleep to find her spaceship overrun by invisible creatures who are hunting and killing the ship's crew.
Omori was favorably compared to games such as EarthBound and Yume Nikki, and went on to be nominated for several awards, winning DreamHack's "Daringly Dramatic" category in 2021. The game has sold over 1 million copies as of December 2022. A manga adaptation of the game was released in June 2024.