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[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.
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]
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.
Various characters in Dragon Quest IV make appearances in other games in different capacities. In Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below and Dragon Quest Heroes II features multiple characters as playable characters, as does Dragon Quest Tact, Dragon Quest Walk, and the Itadaki Street series. [4] [5] [6] [citation needed ...
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 ...
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]
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.
Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below [1] [a] is a hack and slash game developed by Omega Force and published by Square Enix. It was released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan in February 2015, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and in North America, Australia and Europe only for PlayStation 4 in October 2015.