EarthBound is a role-playing video game developed by Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The second entry in the Mother series, it was first released in Japan in August 1994, and in North America in June 1995. As Ness and his party of four, the player travels the world to collect eight melodies in order to defeat the evil alien force Giygas.
Mother is a video game series that consists of three role-playing video games: Mother (1989) for the Famicom, Mother 2 (1994), known as EarthBound outside Japan, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and Mother 3 (2006) for the Game Boy Advance.
Shigesato Itoi is a Japanese copywriter, essayist, lyricist, game designer, and actor. Itoi is the editor-in-chief of his website and company Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun. He is best known outside Japan for his work on Nintendo's Mother/EarthBound series of games, as well as his self-titled bass fishing video game.
Mother 3 is a role-playing video game developed by Brownie Brown and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. The final entry in the Mother series, it was released in Japan on April 20, 2006. The game follows Lucas, a young boy with psychic abilities, and a party of characters as they attempt to prevent a mysterious invading army from corrupting and destroying the world.
Mother, officially known outside of Japan as EarthBound Beginnings, is a role-playing video game developed by Ape and published by Nintendo for the Famicom. The first entry in the Mother series, it was first released in Japan on July 27, 1989. It is modeled on the gameplay of the Dragon Quest series, but is set in the late 20th-century United States, unlike its fantasy genre contemporaries. Mother follows the young Ninten as he uses his great-grandfather's studies on psychic powers to fight hostile, formerly inanimate objects and other enemies. The game uses random encounters to enter a menu-based, first-person perspective battle system.
Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun (ほぼ日刊イトイ新聞), also known as Hobonichi (ほぼ日), is a Japanese company that designs and produces various daily life products like Haramaki and the Techo notebook. The company was founded by Shigesato Itoi on June 6, 1998. Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata was the IT manager for the company since its inception, and in 2007 was still the IT manager for Hobonichi despite also leading Nintendo.
Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No. 1 is a fishing video game developed and released only in Japan for the Super Famicom on February 21, 1997 and updated for broadcast as eight different episodes on the Satellaview subsystem between April and November 1997. On March 31, 2000 the latest version of the game was released for the Nintendo 64 as the Definitive Edition (糸井重里のバス釣りNo.1決定版!). The game allows the player to play as the creator of the game, Shigesato Itoi, and includes a host of animal characters who occasionally appear in the game. The SA-1 was used in the Super Famicom version.
Hajime Itoi is a retired male backstroke swimmer from Japan. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. He is best known for winning a silver medal at the 1995 Summer Universiade in Fukuoka. He competed for the Waseda University.
Itoi Station is a railway station on the Muroran Main Line in Tomakomai, Hokkaidō, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company. It is numbered "H20".
Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese horror film directed by Kyotaro Namiki and written by Akira Sugimoto.
Yoshio Itoi is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Hanshin Tigers. Itoi bats left-handed and throws right-handed. He played for team Japan in WBC 2013, and hit for Japan in games against Brazil and China.
Development of Mother 3, a role-playing video game from Nintendo, spanned a total of nine years between 1994 and 2006 with a three year gap in between, and spanned four consoles and multiple delays. Following the commercial success of its predecessor, Mother 2, Mother series creator Shigesato Itoi was given the previous game's development team.
Mesosini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the Lamiinae subfamily.
Pachyosa is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Itoi is a village in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is located in the Nancowry tehsil.
Pachyosa atronotata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Kusama and Irie in 1976. It is known from Japan.
Pachyosa cervinopicta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Léon Fairmaire in 1897. It is known from Japan.
Pachyosa guanyin is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Yamasako and Chou in 2014. It is known from Taiwan.
Pachyosa hirtiventris is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gressitt in 1937, originally under the genus Coptops. It is known from Japan.
Pachyosa kojimai is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Masao Hayashi in 1974. It is known from Taiwan and Japan.
