EarthBound Beginnings

EarthBound Beginnings (Japanese: マザー, Mother) is a single-player, role-playing video game developed by APE Inc. and published by Nintendo. The game was released in Japan for the Famicom during July 27, 1989. It was bundled with EarthBound on one cartridge in Mother 1+2 released June 20, 2003, in Japan for the Game Boy Advance. EarthBound Beginnings for the Wii U Virtual Console was revealed during the Nintendo World Championships 2015 and received a worldwide release on June 14, 2015.

Unlike usually role-playing games that are set in a medieval fantasy setting, EarthBound Beginnings is set in the late 20th century United States, and certain characters can use baseball balls, frying pans and guns.