Game Information

Original Release Date: August 27, 1994

Platforms: New Nintendo 3DS, Super Famicom, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Wii U

Involved Companies: HAL Laboratory, Creatures Inc., Nintendo, Ape

Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure

Summary: A turn-based JRPG and sequel to then-Japan-only Earthbound Beginnings (1989) in which Ness, a young boy living in a land based on the USA, leaves home to go on an adventure through strange locations, get to know quirky characters and defeat an unknowable alien threat called Giygas while facing up to the realities of growing up and becoming familiar with the real world.