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title: "Footage of the cancelled Earthbound 64 surfaces online"
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description: "Footage of the cancelled Earthbound 64 (also known to many as MOTHER 3) for the Nintendo 64 surfaced online."
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Footage of the cancelled Earthbound 64 surfaces online | General News | NintendoReporters

 [![Footage of the cancelled Earthbound 64 surfaces online](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/footage-of-the-cancelled-earthbound-64-surfaces-online.jpg "Footage of the cancelled Earthbound 64 surfaces online")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/footage-of-the-cancelled-earthbound-64-surfaces-online.jpg)Footage of the cancelled Earthbound 64 (also known to many as MOTHER 3) for the Nintendo 64 surfaced online.

The never-before-seen footage of the game was ripped from the Nintendo Company Report 1998 CD-ROM, a copy of which was acquired by Twitter user @realZen64 at a Yahoo Japan Auction.

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## [](#nintendo-company-report-1998)Nintendo Company Report 1998

The trailer was apparently planned to be showed off during Nintendo’s 1997 Space World Trade Show.

The CD-Rom also contains videos for various other games which were under development at the time, such as “Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo Kazooie, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and more”.

Zen is currently in the process of uploading them to Youtube as well, and they can be found on the channel here; [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNKGSWWs55FILEDiMbKSS\_A](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNKGSWWs55FILEDiMbKSS_A)

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