EarthBound Beginnings — NES null — NTSC-U

NES · 1985–1995

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EarthBound Beginnings

NES · · NTSC-U · Role-playing (RPG)

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Activity feed · live

Activity feed builds as the eBay snapshot history accumulates and comp data flows in. First events surface within hours of a fresh cache cycle; full velocity within seven days.

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Market depth

What it's actually worth

The three-tier spread, verified comparable sales, and where this title sits inside its cohort. Live snapshot lives above in Pulse; this is the time-and-context layer.

Three-tier spread · log scale

The same game at three prices — Loose, CIB, and Sealed on one ruler. The scale is logarithmic: each gridline step is 10×, so the distance between bars shows the size of the jump between tiers.

Premium structure

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Verified comparable sales · by tier

Sealed · 0 sales

No verified comparable sales in window. Real comp data integration (Heritage / Goldin / eBay Insights) ships V15.22+.

Complete in Box · 0 sales

No verified comparable sales in window. Real comp data integration (Heritage / Goldin / eBay Insights) ships V15.22+.

Loose · 0 sales

No verified comparable sales in window. Real comp data integration (Heritage / Goldin / eBay Insights) ships V15.22+.

Cohort context · complete in box floor vs. cohort medians

vs. console cohort

Same console, same tier

-100%below cohort median

Cohort median €59 · 192 titles

vs. era cohort

Same console, year ±2

Insufficient cohort data.

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vs. publisher cohort

Same console + publisher

-100%below cohort median

Cohort median €70 · 121 titles

CIB · price history

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Why this title

Why collectors care

The cultural context, the production lineage, the place this artifact holds in its console's history.

arthBound Beginnings, originally released in Japan as Mother, is a 1989 role-playing video game developed by Ape Inc. and Nintendo and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer. It is the first entry in the Mother series and was first released in Japan on July 27, 1989. The game was re-released in Japan along with its sequel on the single-cartridge compilation Mother 1+2 for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. The game follows a young American boy named Ninten as he uses his great-grandfather's studies on psychic powers to put an end to the paranormal phenomena spiraling the country into disarray.

NintendoApeRole-playing (RPG)

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Hardware specimen

First print documented: No
Regional / language names: EarthBound Zero · Earth Bound · Mother · MOTHER · 마더

Authentication

Is what you're holding real

Documented variants, identifying marks, and the print-vs-reprint discriminator. Pick a variant to focus the walkthrough; the Companion can talk you through your own copy.

Documented variants · 1

Reference

Production reference

No production variants are documented for this title yet. The identifying marks below cover the title's first-print and reprint signals across all tiers.

Focused walkthrough

Production reference

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Sealed indicators

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Complete in Box indicators

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