New Earthbound 64 footage found on an older Nintendo CD-ROM

Earlier this month, a Mother a fan threw himself on a Japanese auction listing that was selling a 1998 Nintendo Corporate CD-ROM, only because that disc contained images of the cancellation EarthBound 64 for the Nintendo 64.

With auctions starting at just $ 18, the CD-ROM eventually sold for $ 357, just so Zen could do the world a favor and get their hands on a copy of the Earth tied 64 Nintendo Legendary Trailer Spaceworld 1997 exhibition.

Previously, the primary way people could see footage of the game in action was through these old IGN footage:

Or this quick look at the Spaceworld 1996 showroom:

Here are, in the meantime, the images that were included on Nintendo’s CD-ROM and that Zen was able to download. This isn’t our first look at gameplay for the canceled sequel, but a lot of it is new footage!

Sure, it’s only 25 seconds and there’s no sound, but this game was canceled over 20 years ago, it’s amazing to see something new.

And what we see, like all the other footage, looks amazing, especially when you remember that it was an N64 game. But then, maybe that was the problem; EarthBound 64’s scale and ambition proved one of the main reasons the game was never released in the first place.

While there are new images to agonize over, there remains an unheard of holy grail for Mother fans: get your hands on the playable version of EarthBound 64, which has been to a few trade shows (like the 1996 Spaceworld video above) but has never been seen by the public since.

Terrestrial 64 Was at the origin Assumed to be Mother 3, a sequel to Nintendo’s weird and beloved RPG series. While it was canceled in 2000, Mother 3 would eventually be developed for the Game Boy instead, which is the Mother 3 we all know today, and always ask Nintendo to kindly officially bring to the West.

In the meantime, Zen has also been kind enough to download the rest of the CD-ROM content, which also includes trailers for games like Ocarina of time and a beautiful high resolution Pikachu art, which you can consult here.