EarthBound 64 was in development for many years before the project was finally terminated on August 21, 2000, partially because of the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive's commercial failure. The title began as a project titled ' EarthBound 64', a direct sequel to the Mother series' second installment, EarthBound, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Immediately before its release, Mother 3 was the most wanted game in Japan according to Weekly Famitsu.

Up until its release, the game remained near the top of Famitsu's most wanted games list. Mother 3 tells the story of Lucas, a young boy, and his friends who journey the Nowhere Islands to save the islands from an invading army and its leader, who have been introducing new technology and infrastructure to the islands. It was designed and directed by Shigesato Itoi, with music by Shōgo Sakai. However, there have been multiple fan-made English translations of it. It has currently been released only in Japan. It was developed by HAL Laboratory, Inc., Nintendo, and Brownie Brown and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance on April 20, 2006. As Nintendo transitions away from developing games for the Wii U towards mobile gaming and the NX console, rumored to be launching this year, Mother 3 may lend a brief, but welcome show of support for the flagging publisher.256 megabit cartridge Mother 3 (Japanese: マザースリー Mother 3) is the third and final installment in the Mother series. Nintendo may also be motivated by the public response to a new Mother 3 release, based on the positive reception to the Wii U re-release of Earthbound in 2013. International awareness of the Mother games, if not interest, has also grown thanks to series heroes Ness and Lucas appearances in Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros.

The critical and public reception to the 2013 re-release of Earthbound on the Wii U virtual console, prompted Nintendo to localize Mother, the first game in the series, as Earthbound Beginnings, 26 years after its initial release on the Japanese Famicom. Though the series accrued a loyal following among western RPG fans, Nintendo has only recently turned its attention back to localizing the rest of the Earthbound franchise. The game North American RPG fans know as Earthbound was originally released in Japan as Mother 2, the second chapter in the Earthbound series.

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