Expanded Game

EarthBound Beginnings

2015 · Wii U · Nintendo Entertainment System · Nintendo Switch · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure

81IGDB player score
55 ratings

Previously Take

A respectable 81 average that never found its audience. A proper RPG: big systems, bigger choices, and fantasy, science fiction all the way down. Solo only, and better for it — this is a one-player experience through and through.

About this game

EarthBound Beginnings is the first installment in the EarthBound / Mother series. It was developed by Ape Inc., Nintendo Tokyo R&D Products, and Pax Softnica, and was published by Nintendo for the Famicom on July 27, 1989. Though officially translated into English under the name EarthBound in 1990 complete with a variety of updates and new content, the planned release of the North American localization was ultimately cancelled due to Nintendo of America ending support for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Despite this, the updates made to the game for the English localization was included in the Japanese Mother 1+2 rerelease for Game Boy Advance in 2003. The English version was finally released on the Wii U Virtual Console on June 14th, 2015, 25 years after its intended release date.

EarthBound Beginnings follows the young Ninten as he uses his great-grandfather's studies on psychic powers to fight hostile, formerly inanimate objects and other enemies. His adventure leads him to new friends and eventually uncovering an alien plot that must be stopped.