What is Mother (series)?
{{nihongo|'''''Mother'''''|マザー|Mazā}}, is a [[console role-playing game|role-playing]] [[video game]] series made by [[Nintendo]], [[Creatures Inc.|Ape, Inc.]], [[HAL Laboratory]], and [[Brownie Brown]]. [[Shigesato Itoi]] was in charge of all three games. It has three main games in it, and started on the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] with ''[[Mother (video game)|Mother]]'', and then it had ''[[EarthBound]]'' on the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super NES]] and finally, ''[[Mother 3]]'' on the [[Game Boy Advance]]. ''EarthBound'' was initially the only game of the three that came out in [[English language|English]]; until the first game, EarthBound Beginnings (Mother 1) was released to America on the Wii U's Virtual Console in 2015, 25 years after Mother 1 had come out in [[Japan]], and it has a strong fanbase that wants the other two games in English too. ==Plot== ===Setting=== The series takes place by [[travel]]ling in western [[direction]]s for the most part, but it also goes to other places like [[desert]]s, a [[prehistoric]] world, and a [[dream]] world. ==Games== ===Mother=== {{mainarticle|Mother (video game)|Mother}} ''Mother'' is the first title in the ''EarthBound'' series. It was made by [[Creatures Inc.|Ape, Inc.]] and designed by [[Shigesato Itoi]] for the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]]. It was going to be called ''EarthBound'' in the [[United States]], and [[Nintendo|Nintendo of America]] completed the translation of the game, but they decided that [[console role-playing game|role-playing]] [[video game]]s were not worth releasing, and that it was too late in the NES' life to release. ===EarthBound=== {{mainarticle|EarthBound}} ''EarthBound'' (known as ''Mother 2'' in [[Japan]]) is the second title in the series. It's the most well known because it was the only one released outside of Japan. It was made by [[Creatures Inc.|Ape, Inc.]] for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super NES]]. It stars a boy named Ness, a girl named Paula, a boy named Jeff, and a boy named