EarthBound wasn’t a huge success when the game was released to the Super Nintendo. In particular, the game did poorly in the United States because of a bad marketing campaign where they literally said ...

Announced during the latest Nintendo Direct, the fan-favorite role-playing game Earthbound was revealed as the newest title coming to the Switch's Nintendo Online service -- and it's out right now.

We’ve already linked you to a lovely collection of Super Nintendo game manuals that Nintendo uploaded in honor of the SNES Classic Edition’s launch. But it’s important to highlight that EarthBound’s ...

It seems that Itoi wasn't exactly aware he was about to get pitched a sequel, with Iwata having arranged the meeting and kept him in the dark: Itoi-san: ‘Iwata-kun, you arranged this, didn’t you?’ ...

EarthBound, the endearing Japanese role-playing game from the Super Nintendo era, delivers a very particular brand of surreal humor and sentimentality. It’s part of a series known as Mother in Japan, ...

This article is part of our new experimental series, Backlog Club, where we (Nintendo Life!) pick a game that's likely to be on our list of "games we should get around to playing", and then we (NL + ...

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He is a lifelong gamer with a passion for a variety of genres. A connoisseur of everything from JRPGs and ...

On April 17 2013, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced via a Nintendo Direct video conference that Earthbound is coming to the Wii U Virtual Console. But when he said "later this year," we didn't ...

Stefan is a machine that plays video games, writes about video games, and then stares at a wall. Staring at a wall is the most productive part of its day. New players might want to know how long the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. EarthBound and EarthBound Beginnings--first released as Mother in Japan--are coming to Nintendo Switch. Revealed during today's Nintendo Direct, both ...

A few weeks ago, Marcus Lindblom logged onto TwitchTV. He found someone playing Earthbound, and he watched them stream for a while. Every time they smiled in the right place or laughed at the right ...