The series was commercially successful in Japan, while it was not commercially successful in the United States. Though Mother never saw the American marketplace, its sequel for the Super Famicom/SNES(Super Nintendo Entertainment System), EarthBound, did, and stars a young psychic boy by the name of Ness. Many of the characters and settings are very similar, but the only explicitly returning character is Giygas, who swears revenge at the end of the first game(evidenced by EarthBound's Japanese subtitle: Gyiyg Strikes Back!). The game also includes many subtle pop-culture references: the fight against the neighborhood gangster backdropped by a song very similar to Chuck Berry's "Johnny B Goode" is one of several, as well as a band called 'The Runaway Five', that is a parody of The Blues Brothers. ![]() ![]() EarthBound(known in Japan as Mother 2) is a distant sequel to the original Mother, with many characters, themes, and tunes borrowed from its predecessor.
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