Has an article about:This is the first game in the Mother series. For other games in the series see the.Mother is the predecessor to (Mother 2), the first game in the Mother series to be released in English. An English prototype exists but was never released.

EarthBound Beginnings (Japanese: マザー Mother, stylized as MOTHER), is a 1989 roleplaying video game originally released on the Famicom. Starting the Game. Poltergeist in the House. Podunk Cemetery. Crystal Cavern. Sweet Little's Factory.

Mother has since been released on the as part of; this also has not been localized. This guide is written with the English prototype in mind, although most of the time it will fit the Japanese version as well. The NES version was later localized and released for the first time worldwide in North America, Europe and Australia on, via the, under the title EarthBound Beginnings.