Ape Inc., HAL Laboratory Games Collection

EarthBound, known in Japan as Mother 2, is a role-playing game developed by Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Players control Ness, a young boy from the suburban town of Onett, who embarks on an epic journey to collect the eight melodies of the Earth and stop the universal cosmic destroyer Giygas. The game subverts traditional RPG tropes by setting its adventure in a whimsical parody of 1990s America, where players use baseball bats and psychic powers against enemies like rampaging taxis and cultists obsessed with the color blue.