Earthbound
Nintendo’s old-school, 2D RPG Earthbound was initially released in the 1990s by HAL Laboratory and Ape Inc and puts players in charge of Ness and his friends, who must adventure and battle through the world to defeat the threat of Giygas that threatens Eagleland. The Earthbound franchise originally started out in Japan, under the name Mother, and has since been rereleased on Nintendo Switch Online.
Earthbound
- Platform(s)
- SNES , Game Boy Advance
- Released
- June 5, 1995
- Developer(s)
- HAL Laboratory , Ape Inc.
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- Genre(s)
- RPG
- ESRB
- T For Teen due to Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Suggestive Themes, Crude Humor
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