I have tons of scans to share today about the Nintendo 64 version of MOTHER 3! First, I have my own scans of the February 1998 issue of Famimaga 64. Second, community members of the EarthBound 64 Discord discovered tons of complete magazine scans of the 64 Dream from 1999 to 2000 courtesy of MyCom on archive.org. You can view all of their complete, high quality scans as PDF files that even have optical character recognition on archive.org! And third, I have one scan of a small mention of MOTHER 3 in the March 2000 issue of the 64 Dream.

Within their many scans, there was one interview in the February 1999 issue of the 64 Dream that detailed HAL’s game plans. It begins with Super Smash Bros. and gradually progresses to MOTHER 3. Thanks to MyCom’s scans, we now have a very high quality version of a group image with characters’ faces from Spaceworld 1997! I also noticed an image in Kirby’s section of the Smash Bros. page that I really had to point out.

This is the last post in our MOTHER 3 16th anniversary scan drops, but there are still more posts to come that aren’t about MOTHER 3 leading up to our 2022 Mother Direct, so stay tuned for more every Wednesday until then!

Famimaga 64, February 1998

64 Dream, February 1999 & March 2000