Game title
Mother
Japan 1989-07-27 / role-playing video game /Nintendo
- #676Japanese release order (of 1239 titles)
- #30Famitsu score (of 367 titles)
- #14How much it is read now (of 942 titles)
- 1989Release year
About this game title
No tags are shown in this table (the item names are on the left, so the same word would appear 2 times). Fields that are not known are left unfilled and shown as "unknown".
- Japanese title
- MOTHER
- Japan release date
- 1989-07-27
- North America release date
- Not released, or unknown
- Europe release date
- Not released, or unknown
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Ape / Nintendo / Pax Softnica（Nintendo Tokyo R&D Products）
- Genre
- role-playing video game
- Formats
- FC / NES
Officially playable today
Officially available
Products sold (1)
Even for the same game title, packs, bundles and budget re-releases count as separate products. Only those listed in the public record (Media Arts Database) are shown.
- MOTHER
- Model no. HVC-MX / 1989-07-27
More details
Only the details we could confirm are shown.
- Series
- MOTHERSeries
- Music
- Keiichi Suzuki
- Art
- Shinbo Minami / Tatsuya Ishii
- design
- Shigesato Itoi / Miyuki Kure
- production
- Hiroshi Yamauchi (executive producer) / Shigeru Miyamoto
- Scenario
- Shigesato Itoi
- Direction
- Shigesato Itoi
- Medium
- Digital download
- North America age rating
- T (ages 13 and up)
Where it stands today
How much this title is read and edited today. Wikipedia page views and edit history, counted on 2026-8-30.
Readers of the Japanese article
about 5,800 views per month
Readers of the overseas article
about 10,131 views per month
Edits in the past 1 year
28 times
Still officially playable
Officially available
Current records (6 of 9)
The fastest completions of this title, as of 2026-8-30, and still being updated (the newest record is from 2026-06-21). These records are the work of the runners and authors. Their names and sources are given.
Stories left about this title
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What we still don't know
These details have not been traced.
Launch priceCopies sold
Explore from here
Links to pages related to this title.
Source: created by adapting the "Media Arts Database" (https://mediaarts-db.artmuseums.go.jp/) of the National Center for Art Research, National Museum of Art
Sources: Japanese and English Wikipedia, Wikidata
Sources: TASVideos (https://tasvideos.org/), speedrun.com (https://www.speedrun.com/)