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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]
A separate Mother 4, in development as of late 2021, including elements like rolling hit point counters, rhythm-based attacks, and an art style derivative of the series [43] Mother Squared, a remake of the SNES EarthBound in an open source game engine, as of 2023 [44] EarthBound Dimensions, a 3D reimagining of EarthBound, as of 2021 [45]
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.
Reviewers noted the game's similarities with the Dragon Quest series and its simultaneous "parody" of the genre's tropes. [3] [4] They thought the game's sequel, EarthBound, to be very similar [4] [62] and a better implementation of Mother 's gameplay ideas. [3] Critics also disliked the game's high difficulty level and balance issues. [3] [4 ...
The character serves as the main antagonist and final boss of Mother and its sequel, Mother 2/EarthBound. In the series, he invades Earth in an attempt to wipe out humanity in Mother, and returns in EarthBound where he conquers the world and sends his forces into the past to prevent protagonist Ness from defeating him. The battle against Giygas ...
HAL Laboratory, Inc., [b] formerly shortened as HALKEN, is a Japanese video game developer founded on February 21, 1980, in Chiyoda, Tokyo by Mitsuhiro Ikeda. The company started out developing games for home computers of the era, but has since established a strong relationship with Nintendo, and is often referred to as a second-party developer. [4]
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.
Quest 4 or Quest IV may refer to: Dragon Quest IV, a role-playing video game; King's Quest IV, fourth installment in the King's Quest series of graphic adventure games; Police Quest: Open Season (also known as Police Quest IV), a 1993 police procedural point-and-click adventure video game; Space Quest IV, a 1991 graphic adventure game