

To avoid title confusion, fans called it "EarthBound Zero". Years later, a prototype copy surfaced and a ROM was dumped.

Nintendo localized it into English in the early 1990s as "Earth Bound", but never released it. Mother (Nintendo Famicom, 1989) / "EarthBound Beginnings" (Wii U, 2015) Outside of Japan, the naming gets a little weird, kind of like how Final Fantasy titles had weird changes back in the early days.

There are basically three games in the Mother series: Mother, Mother 2, and Mother 3. What do you recommend?" I've made this page to answer that question and give some suggestions to eager newcomers to the series. A question I often see is, "I've never played anything in the EarthBound/Mother series but want to get into it.
