Mother 3 (or EarthBound 2 in North America) has been in development for a very, very long time; after a number of years some fans even considered it vaporware. Fortunately, gamers starved for info were finally thrown a bone this past November. However, even though the game was confirmed to still exist, creator Shigetsao Itoi was reluctant to give a release date.
Until today, that is, when Itoi updated his website to let everyone in on the news: Mother 3 is hitting Japan on April 20th of this year. That's right; in a mere three months, Japanese gamers (and importers) will be able to get their hands on the RPG that's been a "work in progress" for over ten years. According to the Starmen translation, Itoi had this to say:
Mother 3's release date has been set. It will be April 20th, 2006 (Thursday). At least it's spring. It'll go on sale before the start of Golden Week. We'll be doing an official announcement pretty soon, but this is the "final" date. Once the release date is set, there are no more additions of new specs or anything like that. We'll no longer be able to fiddle around with anything in the game, unless it's something especially important. It makes me a little sad, but I can't be selfish. Since it's GameBoy Advance software, that naturally means that you'll also be able to play it on the Nintendo DS that everyone's so crazy about these days.
4/20/2006. Get ready, folks.
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What ever happened to that third F-Zero GBA game? I think it was called F-Zero Climax. I remember reading it had a track editor. Although I don't think there's tons of demand for it (why did they release THREE F-Zero games on the GBA) it's still somewhat of a bummer that we miss out on a track editor feature. Was it released in Japan?
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Originally posted by: BloodworthQuote
What ever happened to that third F-Zero GBA game? I think it was called F-Zero Climax. I remember reading it had a track editor. Although I don't think there's tons of demand for it (why did they release THREE F-Zero games on the GBA) it's still somewhat of a bummer that we miss out on a track editor feature. Was it released in Japan?
You mean this F-Zero Climax?
http://www.planetgamecube.com/reviews.cfm?action=profile&id=542
I'm a big F-Zero fan, but I felt it was rather meh. It probably never got localized since it was sub-par for the series and more of a TV show tie-in.