Can the recent EarthBound releases help Mother 3 come to the West?Mother 3 screenshot.
They're not just Smash characters.
Like many of you, my first introduction to the EarthBound series (or Mother as it's called in Japan) was through Super Smash Bros. I used to play this N64 game repeatedly on Saturday mornings with friends. Of all of the fighters in the first game's roster, the boy with a striped shirt and baseball cap was the one none of us knew. But once we looked into the game Ness came from, we all became obsessed.
That's why it hit us so hard when we realized we'd missed the boat on EarthBound's SNES release and why Mother 3 failing to release outside of Japan a few years later left us with a gaping hole. In a nutshell, the relationship fans outside of Japan have with Mother 3 is one of longing.
Ahem... open your history books to chapter 1
EarthBound screenshot.
"Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind." —Kahil Gibran
The first Smash game released in 1999 on N64, and by that point, Mother 1 and 2 had both already ...
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Can the recent EarthBound releases help Mother 3 come to the West?
