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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.
A full-length documentary on Starmen.net and the fan community, EarthBound USA, was released in November 2023. While series creator Shigesato Itoi has stated that he is finished with the series, a fan-created spiritual sequel, Oddity , began development in 2010, while another, Mother 4 , was announced in 2021.
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]
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.
The soundtrack album for EarthBound was released by Sony Records in Japan on November 2, 1994. It was re-released a decade later on February 18, 2004, by Sony Music Direct. The album has 24 tracks, where many of these tracks are arrangements combining several pieces from the game into one piece.
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]
Earthbound is a live album by the band King Crimson, released in June 1972 as a budget record shortly after the line-up that recorded it had broken up. [1] It contains the band's first official live release of their signature song " 21st Century Schizoid Man ", and an extended live version of their 1970 non-LP B-side " Groon ".
The American online music publication Pitchfork has awarded a perfect score of 10 to more than 50 albums. Most of the scores were given in retrospective reviews of classic albums or reissues . [ 1 ] Artists who have received perfect scores on release include Radiohead , Fiona Apple , Kanye West , Bonnie "Prince" Billy , And You Will Know Us by ...