Mother

Mother (マザー Mazā) (also known as Earthbound Zero) is the first installment in the Mother series. It was developed by Ape Inc., Nintendo Tokyo R&D Products and Pax Softnica; it was published by Nintendo for the Famicom on July 27, 1989. It was designed and directed by Shigesato Itoi and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, with music by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka. It was fully translated and slated for release outside of Japan as Earth Bound but due to marketing issues and the quickly impending SNES, it was never released.

The game was later re-released in a compilation with its sequel, Mother 2 ("EarthBound"), on the Game Boy Advance as Mother 1 + 2.