If you’re an Earthbound/Mother fan, you have to be hoping that either NOA translates and releases Mother 3 or that Earthbound and/or Mother 1 get released for the Wii’s virtual console. I can guarantee you that if you fall into this group, you are not alone. Over at Starmen, where the most hardcore Mother fans live, they have been doing their best to make sure that Earthbound finds its way to the virtual console. From one quick glimpse of the site you will immediately be taken aback by the amount of fan art, music, comics, and more that are submitted daily to the site! I encourage you to take a look through their massive collection of Earthbound paraphernalia - I will admit that I am highly jealous of those Mr. Saturn plushies!

Anyways, some of the members over at Starmen have started a project called PK Call’N. The basic outline of the project is: call NOA and tell them that you want to see Earthbound and Mother 1 on the virtual console, or Mother 3 and Mother 1 + 2 for the DS released in NA. Along with calling into NOA, you can also vote for Earthbound and Mother 1 in Nintendo Power’s virtual console pole (email vcpoll@futureus.com with your future virtual console hopefuls). For the past three months these two games have been in the top spots. I can only wonder why NOA likes to tease Mother fans so much? Finally, Earthbound was rated by the ESRB, on May 2nd, for its release onto the virtual console; however, it has still not been released. Myself, a huge Mother fan - I have played all three games in the series, including Mother 3 in Japanese - will buy this game on the virtual console the first day that it comes out and will relive the magic of this truly original game.

On a side note: I told you that NOA likes to tease Mother fans… Could this be about a NA release of Mother 3? Most likely not. I have a feeling it is Kingdom Hearts news.