Music of The Earth Bound Series - Legacy

Legacy

Music from EarthBound was arranged for the piano and published by DOREMI Music Publishing in 1995. The book contains 16 scores, with some covering more than one song from the game. "Onett's Theme" was also included in "Game Music Piano Solo Album", a book published by DOREMI with sheet music from many different games. Sky Port Publishing published a book of piano arrangements in 1996 for the release of Mother 1+2 containing 27 pieces. The "Eight Melodies" song from Mother received some popularity, and was included in some Japanese music textbooks due to its simplicity. Super Smash Bros., a series of fighting games published by Nintendo featuring characters and music from established video games, has included several songs from the EarthBound series. Super Smash Bros. Melee featured a few songs from the series: "Bein' Friends", "Eight Melodies", "Pollyanna", "Fourside", and "Sound Stone"; "Bein' Friends"/"Eight Melodies" and "Pollyanna" and are titled "Mother" and "Mother 2" in the game. "Fourside" is called "EarthBound", and parts of "Sound Stone" are used in "EarthBound" and Ness's victory theme. Several songs from Mother 3 were included in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, including "Love Theme", "Unfounded Revenge", "Smashing Song of Praise", "You Call This a Utopia?!" and "Porky's Theme". Brawl also included "Humoresque of a Little Dog", and "Snowman" from Mother, and also featured "Mother" and "Mother 2" from Melee. Several tracks from the series did not make it into Super Smash Bros. Brawl but still exist inside the game's code, such as "Because I Love You," "Eight Melodies," "Smiles and Tears," and "Hippie Battle."

"Because I Love You" and "Eagle Land" from EarthBound were played by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in their second Orchestral Game Concert in 1992 as part of a five concert tour, which was later released as a series of albums; "Because I Love You" was again played in their third concert, and was the only song to make an appearance in more than one concert in the tour. A medley of songs from all three games was performed at the "Press Start -Symphony of Games- 2006" concert in Tokyo. Selections of remixes of music from the series also appear on Japanese remix albums, called Dōjin, and on English remixing websites such as OverClocked Remix. A group of remixes of Mother and Earthbound music was released as an unofficial download-only album titled Bound Together by a group of artists from OverClocked Remix and elsewhere on October 29, 2006 containing 48 remixes and almost three hours of music.