Mother - Famicom and NES

RPGs - ranked by preference (58 games items)

"Release Date: July 27, 1989 (JP) Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Pax Softonica Genre: RPG For those of you familiar with Earthbound, this is the game that came out before it in Japan. In other words, Earthbound is Mother 2 in Japan. So, if you like Earthbound, you're bound to like the first game in the series as well. Don't speak Japanese? That's fine. It's been translated to English as Earthbound Zero and even programmed to some NES carts in case you want the complete NES experience. But anyway"

NES Games - ranked by preference (127 games items)

"Release Date: July 27, 1989 (JP) Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Pax Softonica Genre: RPG For those of you familiar with Earthbound, this is the game that came out before it in Japan. In other words, Earthbound is Mother 2 in Japan. So, if you like Earthbound, you're bound to like the first game in the series as well. Don't speak Japanese? That's fine. It's been translated to English as Earthbound Zero and even programmed to some NES carts in case you want the complete NES experience. But anyway"

Listal's Favorite Video Game Series Poll (235 games items)

" AKA Earthbound 3 Voters: Mr. Saturn, wordsasbombs, ToonHead2102"

My Favorite Video Games (25 games items)

"Underrated NES classic that never got an official release."

30 Games (30 games items)

"Favorite game developer: Shigesato Itoi (Mother Trilogy) I recommend playing Mother 2 and 3 first, the best games in the series, then playing this game last if you want to. Mother is a masterpiece but the sequels are greater masterpieces."

Fan Made Games and Remakes (13 games items)

" Someone's making maps for the Earthbound 0 remake remaking Mother in the Mother 2 engine. A conversion project that looks more complete was started by Tomato (the translator of Mother 3), and is being continued by people on Starment.net. edit: I'm not sure if these aren't the same remakes."

Mother Trilogy (4 games items)

" The US President of Nintendo says he's a huge Mother fan but unfortunately bringing the Mother trilogy into the US won't add enough 'business momentum', maybe because of legal issues of the sequels. Mother 1 was officially translated by Nintendo, but Nintendo doesn't have plans to release it outside of Japan. "

Famitsu - Japan's 100 Favorite Games (96 games items)

" An English translation exists."