EarthBound, is a role-playing video game (RPG), was published by Nintendo and released in Japan on August 27, 1994. It was designed by Shigesato Itoi for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Taking place in a modern day world, players assume the role of a young boy named Ness who awakens to discover a meteor has plummeted to the earth near his home, that carrying a single passenger: a mysterious insect-like being named Buzz Buzz. Buzz Buzz tells him that in the future, an evil alien being known as Gigyas has conquered the world, and the only one who can stop him are 4 young kids: 3 boys and a girl. Ness, of course, is one of the chosen ones.