Footage of the cancelled EarthBound 64 surfaces online

The Mother 3 release that never was

Fun footage from an old Japanese television show has come to light, giving us a fleeting look at the planned, but ultimately cancelled, EarthBound 64 (or Mother 3) that was in development for the Nintendo 64 back in the mid-’90s.

Unearthed by , the footage was originally shot for Japanese television at Nintendo’s “Spaceworld 1996” press event. At around the 10:30 mark in the video below, we can see an ever-so-short clip from the N64 RPG sequel, giving us just a glimpse of what might have been. This is then followed up with another snippet from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Whatever happened to that game?

Obviously, EarthBound64/Mother 3 would never see the light of day on N64, with the sequel eventually surfacing on the Japanese Game Boy Advance in 2006. 💫To this day, it remains one of the most heavily-requested localisations of all time, some 13 years since its original release.

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