Can the recent EarthBound releases help Mother 3 come to the West?
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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 ...