Entertainment System). The game is modeled on Dragon Quest series gameplay but is set in a late 20th century United States, unlike its fantasy genre contemporaries. Mother follows the young Ninten as he uses his great-grandfather's psychic powers to fight hostile, formerly animate objects and other enemies. The game uses random encounters to enter a menu-based, first-person perspective battle system. It is the first game in the Mother series. Writer and copywriter Shigesato Itoi pitched the game concept to Shigeru Miyamoto when visiting Nintendo for other business. Though Miyamoto denied the proposal at first, he eventually gave Itoi a development team. The game was released in Japan on July 27, 1989. A North American version was localized into English but abandoned as commercially unviable. A copy of this prototype was later found and circulated on the Internet as EarthBound Zero.
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