Translated by Clyde “Tomato” Mandelin, Shigesato Itoi introduces MOTHER.

A raw version of Itoi’s introduction video.

OkeijiDragon reports that: “I found this footage while searching for media on Mother 3 for Shat-Canned Legends. Same with the SMB3 footage. It’s especially wondrous seeing these 80s Japanese game videos from a completely different, simpler era. Innocent too. You can see the various differences in this pre-release version compared to the final that my annotations elaborate of. While there isn’t anything particularly major to show, the path from Ninten’s house looks to be mirrored, some game menu details are different, and the O on 0:07 is seen on the lower right corner! Source: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm11562473. Because I don’t want to take all the credit for this, as the video was originally uploaded and found on Nico Nico Douga. Titled, ファミマガ Ｖｉｄｅｏ 【1989年 ５月号 （２／２) 】 (literally Famimaga Video May 1989).”

The release trailer for MOTHER.

This Famimaga panel discussion between Shigesato Itoi, Yuji Horii, Koichi Nakamura and Seiko Ito briefly features MOTHER, which released a day before the panel.

The rereleased translation of MOTHER for the Wii U Virtual Console, named “EarthBound Beginnings,” was announced by Shigesato Itoi on June 14th 2015, before the 2015 Nintendo World Championships.

The trailer for MOTHER’s release outside of Japan on the Wii U Virtual Console, EarthBound Beginnings.

EarthBound and EarthBound Beginnings rereleased on Nintendo Switch Online with this trailer in 2022.