Another attempt to get Mother 3 stateside.

Not satisfied that Earthbound is finally coming to Virtual console(even though this still hasnt been released on it nor is confirmed by Nintendo but you can virtually find this on ESRB rating board, so I guess that kinda confirms the whole affair), Starmen is collaborating with The Speedgamers to hold a Earthbound Marathon trying to persuade Nintendo again to release Mother 3 in USA.

I never played any Mother games before, so I dont really know the appeal of this series. But for the rest who have played this series before, most of them are attracted by this quirky rpg where it maybe a little weird in every possible way like calling your father in the game to save your progress in the game, but it is those little weird aspects that manage to pull them in this series. That is why Starmen was founded by some hardcore Mother fans, where its main purposes are to gather all Mother fans all over the globe and to find any possible ways to make Nintendo bring the latest entry, Mother 3 to USA.They even tried to buy the licence of translating Mother 3 from Nintendo and of course, it failed as Nintendo wont give out the licence easily when it comes to their company intellectual properties. Head here to check out the relentless effort of Starmen members and hardships that they have gone through just to get Mother released in USA that have yet to yield any remarkable results except seeing Eartbound soon on Virtual Console. It is sad for Mother fans that the only entry that makes it to the state is Mother 2 for Super Famicom, known as Earthbound in USA.

The latest Earthbound marathon that lasts for 55 hours is trying to get those who know all this affair going on to call Nintendo Of America to let them know how much and how eager do you want to see Mother 3 make it to USA. Basically, the more people who call them, the higher the possibility it can make it as NOA will understand there is actually a market for Mother 3 in USA, where they may have underestimated the possibility of this title sale going strong in USA if it indeeds happens to materialize. For more details of the marathon, please kindly refer here.

I am not sure whether this whole thing can finally be successful in getting Nintendo to reconsider to translate it but surely I do hope that it will happen as I will be the first one to get the game if it ever happens(mark my words, Nintendo). I am interested in this series as well but since the last entry was on Snes and it has been for more than 10 years, it is kinda impossible for me to get into the series unless any Mother games can make it to stateside be it compilation of all three games on NDS or merely a simple port of GBA version. Bring it on, Nintendo. I am waiting for it.