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Ninten leaves home with a baseball bat and psychic tricks in Earthbound Beginnings, the English name of Shigesato Itoi's Famicom RPG Mother. Magicant and Queen Mary's crisis sit beyond the suburbs, and a planned NES localization of that journey was cancelled.
The Famicom game itself dates to 1989, and the official English name arrived decades later. Many players met the quest under the Mother title first because that localization had been cancelled.
Itoi's modern-dress battles and the cancelled localization are the history around the cartridge. Earthbound Beginnings is that later English name for the same Famicom quest, not a new story written in the translation years.
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