MOTHER 2 (EARTHBOUND) GTV Super Famicom Perfect Video Preview

Seen here is the earliest known footage of MOTHER 2, dating all the way back from 1992. This particular preview comes from a Japanese Laserdisc digitized by video game preservationist OkeijiDragon, in which he describes the video: “In this interview, creator Shigesato Itoi and GTV editor-in-chief Koji Watanabe demonstrate a video of an early pre-release build as they discuss the then-upcoming game for Super Famicom. By this point in time (this interview took place likely sometime in before December 1992), the game was already going through an abnormally long development that would end up taking five years to release the game (six if you count the US release). Being that LDs were an expensive luxury to own in the early-1990s, especially in Japan, it’s sort of interesting that the producers of this catalog video went the extra mile to get something like this released on LD. I guess video games were really serious business in Japan.” You can check out a fully subtitled version on his YouTube channel!