Shigesato Itoi
The "Mother" series is a role-playing video game series created by Shigesato Itoi for Nintendo. The series started in 1989 with the Japan-only release of "Mother", which was followed up by "Mother 2", released as "EarthBound" outside Japan, for the Super NES in 1994. A second sequel was released in Japan only, "Mother 3", for the Game Boy Advance in 2006. The music of the "Mother" series includes the soundtracks to all three games; the first game was composed for by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka, who were joined by Hiroshi Kanazu for the second game, while "Mother 3"s score was written by Shogo Sakai.