Mother

Mother is a video game that consists of 1 release

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Mother is the first game in the Mother trilogy. It was released in Japan for the NES, but then it never made it to US shores.

Mother was released in Japan July 27, 1989 and would mark the start of the earthbound game series. Though translated and pegged for release in the United States in 1990 it's release was pushed to 1991 but then eventually canceled due to the release of the Super Nintendo. In Mother you follow the story of twelve-year-old Ninten with the power of Psionics. These powers were inherited from his great grandfather George who was abducted by a alien race many years before. Ninten and his three friends(Lloyd, Ana and Teddy)who you meet up with later in the game are on a mission to save the planet from a race of mind-controlling aliens. You will do this by journeying around the world to find eight melodies while also leaning more about the alien race and your Psionic powers. The battle system in Mother has characters earn experience points to level up and earn abilities and is very similar to many 8-bit RPG's from the same era.

Mother was developed by Ape, inc. and Nintendo Tokyo R&G Products. It was published by Nintendo. It was designed by Shigesato Itoi. It received a large reception in Japan selling more than 400,000 copies.

General Information Edit

Game Name	Mother
Platform(s)	NES
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Developer(s)	Ape
Genres	Add a new genre Role-Playing (RPG)
Themes	Add a new theme
Original US Release	need a fuzzy date?
Original US Release	know the real date?
Aliases	EarthBound Zero

Trivia

Mother 1 is commonly nicknamed Earthbound Zero by the English-speaking fan community, although that isn't the game's official English name. What's the story behind that alias?

It was a prank by some hackers who claimed to have found lost data in the game.
Zero is less than one and is thusly named such because fans think it isn't as good as the SNES game.
It was a joke which circulated in fan sites which supposed the amount of time Nintendo took to release the game.
The name was changed to avoid continuity issues since the NES and SNES installments have the same name.
There is no story. That's just how it is.

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