Plans Are Reportedly In Place To Celebrate Earthbound's 30th Anniversary

Great news! But I’ve got a feeling it will lead to the disappointment of no Western Mother 3 release.

We’re not getting any games BUT Japan will be getting some sweet merch that I will buy up EN MASSE

I want a Eartbound anniversary Amiibo.

It's not going to happen.

«We all know what we want, though»
Mother 3 port/remaster with normal translation (no bs transcreation or stupid localization) without censorship? Well, at least, that's what I want.

Mother 3 on NSO, but only for Japan. Noted.

I wonder if they'll get Reggie back to act annoyed about people asking for Mother 3

its so wild how this essentially dead franchise lives on thanks to community love and occasional merch drops, its like this series is stuck in purgatory of being popular enough to celebrate but not enough for any kind of game

the most i could dream for is a trilogy port release, or a remake of one of the games they'd sell for $60 id immediately buy lol

Earthbound collection with localized Mother 3 for worldwide release would be nice…🤞😞

Why would Mother 3 be ported on the anniversary of Mother 2? 🤔

@boxyguy I think it’s the mark of a genuine classic that Earthbound doesn’t need new games to stay relevant.

Nintendo is not one to prematurely tease projects in a tweet so I doubt they’re involved in a meaningful way (would love to be wrong though). There will probably be new merch and pop up events around Japan.

@LadyCharlie why not? A lot of Nintendo fans would be happy about it, also it would be a nice surprise for the fans of the series..🥴🤔

Honestly I'm significantly less interested in Mother 3 than I would be a remake of the first two games. Feel like they've both, especially Mother 1, aged enough that a remake smoothing things over would do them some real good.

Definitely not expecting much from this, but congrats on its 30th anniversary. Great game.

Not expecting much from this, but the first game could use the same fancy remake treatment as some other RPGs from the time. This wouldn't hurt to do to Earthbound either; visually and mechanically it has aged well overall, but it could use a bit of touching up.

It’s merch and a concert.

I sense we will get new wallpapers.

All I want is a Mario RPG like remake of earthbound, the best game that hardly anyone played, not earthbound zero!

A remake of the whole trilogy on the style of links awakening (a man can dream right?)

Maybe some My Nintendo merch

Anything less than Mother 3 officially releasing in the West is just going to be disappointing because we've all been waiting SO LONG.

That being said, I'm expecting disappointment

Imagine we get an Earthbound/Mother Game and Watch like we did Mario and Zelda. I’ll die.

Earthbound 64 finally getting released? 😂

Just remaster it with octopath traveller 2dhd graphics thats all we need,

@Kyloctopus
Exactly my thoughts.
One off concert in Japanand there will be some MyNintendo awards to redeem with platinum points.

@DiggleDog indeed. i loved the games as a kid, still havent beat mother 1 but i gotta respect how much they value its legacy. even if it doesnt mean any future games projects

theres something bittersweet about itoi being so upfront about how he's done with earthbound, and he told the story he wanted to tell and that its finished

"Happy Anniversary! Here's some screenshots of some Mother 3 artwork and info about the characters. But you don't get to play it."

Can't wait to get my Earthbound themed Switch 2

@ChromaticDracula That would be so awesome. It's a shame anyway that Nintendo only made two modern Game & Watch systems.

Just putting it out there, but my daughter worked at a retro video game store for years. Nobody ever asked for EarthBound. Ever.

Most asked for games: Def Jam, GoldenEye “64”, Mario, Zelda, Madden, WWE, NBA 2K, The Show, and FIFA

@Dragonite89 This please

I doubt we're going to get anything except overpriced merchandise.

@NoLife

KUMATORA AMIIBO PLEASE

Mother 3 will no doubt come to Japan NSO as part of the GBA dripfeed but outside Japan will probably be just merch.

Save up your Platinum points for an exclusive Earthbound jpg.

The only thing I care about is that Earthbound continues to be preserved and made available. The art style in the original is perfect to me and I don't think it needs to be remastered at all.

Japan only merch and MAYBE if we're lucky a paper notebook and some stickers on Club Nintendo outside Japan.

Just give MOTHER 1 & 2 the Super Mario RPG 2023 treatment.

I remember being about Age 10 and buying the "big box edition" of this game (was the size of a full sized "Game Book" think the Zelda Books in hardback). I still have the book and cartridge but the box is lost forever...oh well.

Dang, it's been that long? Man, I feel old...

As for a "game", while I too am in the camp of wanting Mother 3 to be localized...I'm more interested in a "reboot" of sorts that encompasses in the series starting over from scratch in its own universe while improving its mechanics to be anything but (a watered-down) Dragon Quest to some degree. Additionally, maybe make the main character go in the same route as Pikmin 4 did by making the main character customizable with their genders and clothing (colors), as well as introducing a "skill tree" of sorts that lets members learn PSI or other skills anyway possible, alongside make the non-PSI users as less useless as possible in this regard.

...but these are all just personal ideas I have. I know no fan or anybody will agree with me on this, but I'm just giving out my thoughts. I really liked this series.

"...we're way beyond anticipating any official Western release of its sequel, Mother 3."

Oh, I don't know, we never thought we'd see official releases of EarthBound Beginnings or Starfox 2, either...
To a lesser extent, never thought we'd see GoldenEye and other Rare games on the Switch.

@Kazman2007 But you -can- play it And if you have a flash cart or an emulator, you can play it in English.
You just can't purchase it from Nintendo.

Earthbound Amiibo Festival confirmed

Mother (3)0
Although if the first games localised name was earthbound beginnings, then wouldn't it make sense for the last (according to the creator, who isn't planning to make more games) game to be called earthbound endings?

I'm betting a much more likelihood of a Mother 4 announcement over a Mother 3 re-release.

Not sure why this needs a "celebration", but sure.

Are we going to be looking at a Link's Awakening-style remake of Earthbound? The graphics and sound were so important to shoring up Earthbound's identity as a game, i almost hate to see change happen.

Would be nice if we get an EarthBound Collection, there's only 3 games in the history of the short series. Make it happen Nintendo:

• EarthBound Beginnings (Mother 1) - Famicom/NES
• EarthBound (Mother 2) - Super Famicom/Super NES
• EarthBound Endings (Mother 3) - GBA

To be honest, I tried one of the games briefly when they finally became available in Europe, and I was put off by the hardcore “RPG-ness”. Was very disappointed because I’d read such great things about them for years, only to find the old unforgiving random encounters and roll-the-dice fights. Not for me then, I’m afraid. The most intriguing game would be the never finished N64 version of Mother 3. But yeah.

I just caved in and bought the fan translation of Mother 3 on a GBA cartridge... so ... I don't know what to think about this news

To celebrate they're gonna do a new system update to all Wii, 3ds, and Wii U systems to delete Earthbound and Earthbound Beginnings from all systems that have them installed. "Please understand, buy NSO."

I want a new Game&Watch!

@Vyacheslav333 100 percent.

Sure hope we get a bunch of Japan only merchandise and articles reading the stars to determine how definitely this is the time Mother 3 will be brought over.

But seriously I just want a full official OST for Mother 2. However many CDs that would take up, however expensive the import would be, it's the only Earthbound related thing I want. But if anything comes out I'm sure it'll be some silly video game music on vinyl sound selection.

Unofficial localizations are the best reasons to get repro carts.

No remakes, just make a new game.

A grand celebration of the games popularity around the world with a series of Japan only merchandise.

Whatever it is, it's going to be vastly underwhelming, and Japan only, as per usual.

Announcing: MOTHER99 where 99 players compete in a head-to-head battle to defeat alien forces

@ChromaticDracula nice profile pic my dude.

@LadyGwen well this just made my day!! WOOOOO
I knew there had to be others out there lol

Not necessarily expecting any new games, remakes, or remasters, but as mentioned above, Ness was in the original Super Smash Bros., which coincidentally is also at it's anniversary year, so perhaps later this year we might see Smash 64 added to Nintendo Switch Online.