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  |developer = Ape<br>HAL Laboratory
  |developer = Ape<br>HAL Laboratory
  |publisher = Nintendo
  |publisher = Nintendo
  |platforms = Super Famicom, SNES
  |platforms = {{plat-snes}}
  |date = <div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Super Famicom'''<br>{{Flag-JP}} August 27, 1994<br>'''SNES'''<br>{{Flag-US}} June 5, 1995</div></div>
  |date = <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">'''August 27, 1994 (original)'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">{{Flag-JP}} August 27, 1994<br>{{Flag-US}} June 5, 1995</div></div>
  |wikipedia = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthBound
  |wikipedia = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthBound
  |mobygames = https://www.mobygames.com/game/snes/earthbound
  |mobygames = https://www.mobygames.com/game/6676/earthbound
  |tcrf = https://tcrf.net/EarthBound}}
  |tcrf = https://tcrf.net/EarthBound}}


'''EarthBound''' is an RPG developed by Shigesato Itoi, Ape, and HAL Laboratory. In Japan, it is known as '''Mother 2''', serving as the middle chapter in a trilogy.
'''EarthBound''' is an RPG developed by Shigesato Itoi, Ape, and HAL Laboratory. In Japan, it is known as '''Mother 2''', serving as the middle chapter in a trilogy.
   
   
== Previews ==
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== Books ==
== Books ==
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Latest revision as of 02:23, 10 January 2026

EarthBound is an RPG developed by Shigesato Itoi, Ape, and HAL Laboratory. In Japan, it is known as Mother 2, serving as the middle chapter in a trilogy.

Previews

Demo footage from WCES 1995 (uploaded to YouTube on January 8, 2026)

Books

EarthBound
Ken Baumann

Baumann explores the game’s unlikely origins, its brilliant creator, its madcap plot, its marketing failure, its cult rise from the ashes, and its intersections with Japanese and American culture, all the while reflecting back on the author's own journey into the terrifying and hilarious world of adults.

ISBN 978-1-940535-00-5

Legends of Localization Book 2: EarthBound
Clyde Mandelin

With a script by a famous Japanese writer and a game overflowing with Western pop-culture influences, EarthBound stands out as one of Nintendo’s most fascinating localization projects ever. Get ready for hundreds of pages filled with surprising revelations, inside information, obscure trivia, and universal cosmic destruction. This legend of localization doesn’t stink!

ISBN 978-1-945908-90-3