Earthbound Fans Get a New Glimmer of Hope

<p>Recently&comma; EarthBound creator Shigesato Itoi tweeted something which started to get Earthbound fans excited&period; Keeping in mind that fans have been campaigning for years to get the series to come outside of Japan the creator tweeted &lpar;as according to a translation from EarthBound Central&rpar; the following message&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Since it’s now okay to blurt this out&comma; here goes&colon; the &OpenCurlyQuote;Mother republication’ thing I mentioned briefly before is making progress&period; It’s not Mother 4 though&excl; This has to do with making Mother playable&period; I can’t give out any details just yet&comma; but I do at least need to say that it isn’t 4&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For those of you who are unaware of what &&num;8220&semi;Mother&&num;8221&semi; is&comma; it is the Japanese name for the &&num;8220&semi;EarthBound&&num;8221&semi; series&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Does this suggest that the game could see a virtual console release&quest; What do you think&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;earthboundcentral&period;com&sol;&quest;p&equals;10806">EarthBound Central<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;20&sol;earthbound-creator-teases-republication">IGN<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;256e9747-4772-4388-a5d9-df27c7729f2e" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;