EarthBound was released on Nintendo's Virtual Console service for the first time on March 20, 2013 in Japan and July 18, 2013, in North America, and for the first time, Australia and Europe. It was released for the New Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in March 2016. On September 29, 2017, EarthBound was one of the 21 games released on the English SNES Classic. A sequel to EarthBound, titled Mother 3 was released only in Japan on April 20, 2006, and has yet to see a western release.