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Mother 1 coming to Wii U Virtual Console, retitled Earthbound: Beginnings

At the Nintendo World Championships being held in Los Angeles today, Nintendo surprised everyone when it announced it would be bringing Mother 1 to the Wi U Virtual Console.

Originally release for NES in 1989 and Game Boy Advance in 2003, it has only ever been available in Japan and in Japanese. The Virtual Console release marks the first time that Mother 1 will be available legitimately in the west.

Earthbound: Beginnings will be released on Wii U Virtual Console tomorrow, 15 June 2015.


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