Mother 1

[ATARI7800]

hey just wanted to know if anyone out there wanted mother one to be released  

[NintendoKing]

Original Mother was a wonderful game on Famicom!

[nintendodork]

I don't really think it matters since the officially translated ROM has been distributed in several ways.  If Nintendo did release it officially, that would be pretty cool, but I bet it wouldn't make that big of a difference to people as, for example, something like Mother 3.

[L___E___T]

I'm confused  -  do you mean in Virtual Console form?  I'm sure it would get picked up and porting costs next to nothing for an 8-bit game.

[nensondubois]

Thanks to Nintendo's marketing team, we lost out on one other great game. 

[ATARI7800]

I'm confused  -  do you mean in Virtual Console form?  I'm sure it would get picked up and porting costs next to nothing for an 8-bit game.

i am talking about virtual console

[ATARI7800]

thank goodness for reproduction carts 

[nensondubois]

Thanks to Nintendo's marketing team, we lost out on one other great game. 

It wasn't really the marketing team, it was just too late in the NES life-span to release a game like mother.  It wouldn't have seen any profit.  The marketing team had kickass ideas, very similar to how earthbound was eventually marketed in the states.

From the places I read, it was quite the opposite. Hell, they were almost in production with guides and everything before they decided to squash it.

[linkzpikachu]

Nintendo always leaves out great japan only games when they come to america...damn you nintendo be like sega dont hold back

[b1aCkDeA7h]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mother-Famicom-English-Cart-Only-Earthbound-0-/300485408087?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item45f6537557

Here's a Famicom repro that ended recently. I would have bid but it went too high. I ended up bidding on the FFIII repro he was selling and I got that for $50.

The FFIII and Mother repro are two of the few Famicom reproduction carts I've ever seen. Usually, people do NES Reproductions instead.

[pirate_master]

hard-ass-motherfucking game to beat.  i was stuck on mt itoi for 2 years.