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August 1st, 2012 | EarthBound, Images, MOTHER 1, Uncommon Knowledge
I feel like I’ve posted this before, but it’s hard to remember everything I’ve posted. At any rate, this is a thing printed in an old issue of Nintendo Power where they covered Japanese games that never came out here:
I remember this stuff clearly, it also talked about the bar code battler stuff and even Pokemon some years before it was released here. I also remember thinking how much cooler this description of MOTHER 1 sounded than this bland blurb some years before.
But most of all, I can’t help but laugh at the title of “Super Mother” for the sequel 😛
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9 Comments to MOTHER in Old Nintendo Power
 | RandomGuardian said on Aug. 1, 2012 |
Ughhhh Super Mother, what the hell were they thinking!
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| Neko Knight said on Aug. 1, 2012 |
I used to own this particular NP issue. It had Mega Man X on the cover I believe. I remember how I loved reading those Japanese game articles and how I thought they were so cool. Ah, the nostalgia…
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| Dosei-San said on Aug. 1, 2012 |
“Super Mother” Um….. *laughs* Sorry I just sounds a little bit dirty. What the hell were they smoking?!
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| KingMike said on Aug. 1, 2012 |
Yes, that article was from early 1994. Pokemon didn’t exist yet (at least outside Satoshi Tajiri’s brain, and maybe an idea pitched to Nintendo execs. 🙂 )
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| 3DKirby said on Aug. 2, 2012 |
Mmn，Mother’s sequel is “Super Mother”…So maybe the sequel of “Super Mother” is”Super Mother Ultra”XD
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| DJMankiewicz said on Aug. 2, 2012 |
Well remember that’s not what they went with, and they tend to float around a lot of ideas before deciding on a name.
Also, keep in mind that during the SNES era, just about EVER game had “Super” in front of it, especially sequels to NES franchises. Castlevania 4 was “Super Castlevania”, Metroid 3 was “Super Metroid”, Contra 3 was “Super Contra”. It was common enough it became a running joke. Then the Nintendo 64 and the arguably dumber practice of putting 64 after every game title came along.
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| KingMike said on Aug. 3, 2012 |
Actually, Super Contra was the second game, known as Super C. The prototype name for Contra III was Super Contra IV (we can only guess that was counting Operation C for Game Boy as the third game), but the not released title.
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| nessnintenlucasunite said on Jan. 3, 2014 |
SUPER MOTHER XDDDD
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And if they had really called it Super Mother, then it would’ve been the best thing ever