Mother (Video Game)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mother, sometimes referred to as "EarthBound Zero", is a console role-playing game (RPG) developed by Ape, Inc., Pax Softnica and Nintendo Tokyo R&D Products and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer (Famicom) video game console. It was designed and directed by Shigesato Itoi and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, with music by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka. It is the first game in the Mother video game series (otherwise known as the EarthBound series), and was never released outside of Japan. In 2003, the game was re-released in a compilation with its sequel as Mother 1+2. The game's taglines are "No crying until the end" and "Guaranteed masterpiece". Mother tells the story of a psychic boy from Mother's Day, a fictional town. The boy, whose default name is Ninten sets out on a journey to discover the cause of the mysterious phenomenon that occurred in his home one day. As the story develops, he meets friends along the way and they fight their way to the source of all their troubles.