EarthBound and EarthBound Beginnings Available Now Via Nintendo Switch Online

Fan-favorites EarthBound and EarthBound Beginnings are now available for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers.

The inflow of these iconic RPG titles, known as Mother 2 and Mother in Japan, was announced during yesterday'south Nintendo Direct broadcast. You tin check out the announcement trailer for these amazing retro titles down beneath:

EarthBound / EarthBound Beginnings: Bring together Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo in their quest to fulfill an age-sometime prophecy to stop the wicked Giygas (and mayhap grab a Runaway Five concert along the way) in the fan-favorite Super NES archetype EarthBound. In add-on, travel back to 198X for EarthBound Beginnings, a localized version of the original Famicom Female parent game. Both EarthBound and EarthBound Beginnings are now available for Nintendo Switch Online members!

After the Nintendo Direct presentation, Earthbound creator Shigesato Itoi shared a video on Twitter, sharing his excitement about these titles finally coming to Switch Online. Fans of the series have been asking for the games to exist added to Switch Online ever since Nintendo launched the service.

最高にうれしいお知らせです。『Female parent』と『MOTHER2』がNintendo Switch Onlineで遊べるようになりました！もう配信ははじまっています。待ちに待ったこの日に、糸井重里から『MOTHER』ファンのみなさまへごあいさつを。 pic.twitter.com/uXGwR8pstK

— ほぼ日MOTHERプロジェクト (@hobonichimother) February 9, 2022

Released in Nippon as Mother, Earthbound Ancestry was released back in 1989 for the original NES. The championship is set in the tardily 20^th century US and inspired by the gameplay of the Dragon Quest series. The game's successor, Earthbound (known as Mother 2 in Japan), was released for the SNES in 1994/1995. Both titles were released back in 2013 and 2015/2016 for Wii U Virtual Console, and Nintendo 3DS.

The adventure that re-divers roleplaying games on Super Nintendo touches down in Europe for the first time. When a meteorite hits the Earth well-nigh to Ness' house, the brave young man sets off to investigate, merely little does he know that he's about to begin an ballsy gamble that will change his life… oh, and he might just salve the universe in the procedure!

Ness volition take to travel across the earth after meeting with a strange alien in order to preclude Giygas, the Universal Cosmic Destroyer, from annihilating everything and everyone. He will be aided in his mission by three friends, and only past using their abilities and powers together do they stand a chance confronting the mighty Giygas!

With a deeply engaging storyline, a richly detailed earth and a wealth of unique features, EarthBound is an in-depth function-playing epic.