Mother is a series of role playing games created, copyrighted and programmed by Itoi and published by Nintendo for the Famicom, Super Famicom and Game Boy Advance system. Because of it's late arrival to America, the first game was ignored by most fans of Nintendo, but when it's sequel (Mother 2) come out to both Japan and the U.S. for the Super Famicom console in 1993, many people begin to gather into a following in which soon began the popularity of the game.