You are just an average 13 year old kid from the suburbs.until the night a meteor lands in your backyard. No dragons, mystical knights, or staff-wielding wizards appear in this game. The story is set in the 1990s in Eagleland, a kitschy and romanticized parody of America (perfect lawns and quiet suburbs). EarthBound introduced, and even today continues to introduce, RPG fans to an entirely different experience. No other game was like it, except maybe its prequel, MOTHER, which had not been released outside of Japan. Few games dared to defy this mold until EarthBound (MOTHER 2 as it is known in Japan). Most were still set in medieval times, with knights and mages battling mythical monsters with swords and magic.

It continues to be popular among collectors and retro gamers, with new homebrew games and Nintendo's emulated rereleases, such as on the Virtual Console, the Super NES Classic Edition, and Nintendo Switch Online.In 1995, RPGs were stuck in a rut that Dragon Quest had dug. Overlapping the NES's 61.9 million unit sales, the SNES remained popular well into the 32-bit era, with 49.1 million units sold worldwide by the time it was discontinued in 2003. The SNES was a global success, becoming the best-selling console of the 16-bit era after launching relatively late and facing intense competition from Sega's Genesis console in North America and Europe. The system was designed to accommodate the ongoing development of a variety of enhancement chips integrated in game cartridges to be competitive into the next generation.

The console introduced advanced graphics and sound capabilities compared with other systems at the time. The SNES is Nintendo's second programmable home console, following the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Although each version is essentially the same, several forms of regional lockout prevent the different cartridges from being compatible with one another. In Japan, the system is called the Super Famicom (SFC). The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in South America.

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