The absence of EarthBound Beginnings on other systems is strange and it may be linked to Nintendo not wanting to dilute its presence in preparation for a later release - why release it for free, when they could sell it as part of a collection? Nintendo hyped up the release of this game, yet it was never put on the Nintendo 3DS' Virtual Console (which would have drastically increased its potential audience), they never put it on the NES Classic, which they could have promoted in a similar way to Star Fox 2, and it has yet to be released on the Nintendo Switch Online service. Nintendo opened up their 2015 E3 press conference with the announcement that the first Mother game was coming to America and Europe for the first time under the name EarthBound Beginnings.ĮarthBound Beginnings had actually been in the hands of fans for a long time, as Mother had been fully translated into English during the NES' life cycle but was shelved at the last minute, with the prototype eventually being discovered and released online.ĮarthBound Beginnings was released for the Nintendo Wii U's Virtual Console. It's possible that Nintendo might be saving Mother 3 for a Game Boy Classic so that it could be used to promote the console in the same way that Star Fox 2 was used for the Super NES Classic Edition. The absence of Mother 3 is nothing new, but these rumors from seemingly legitimate sources may have been derailed by the popularity of the two Nintendo Classic consoles. The rumors of an English localization of Mother 3 have come and gone over the years, but things really heated up when Emily Rogers and Laura Kate Dale started reporting rumors that a port of the game was coming in either 2016 or 2017, but both of these rumors turned out to be unfounded and Rogers/Dale both seemed less sure about their insider information afterward, prompting fans to wonder whether the game had been pushed back or was never coming at all. Mother 3 has been the lost gem of the Nintendo library for a long time, or at least it has to those who don't live in Japan and don't play games on emulators.
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