Indy the Magical Kid: a Lost 8bit JRPG mixing Dragon Quest, Earthbound & Gamebooks (Patreon)

Indy the Magical Kid (Shounen Majutsushi Indy) is a cancelled Famicom (NES) turn-based RPG that was meant to be published by IGS Corp. Somehow it looks like a mix between Dragon Quest and Mother / Earthbound. It was based on a short series of “choose your own adventure books” with the same title, published in Japan by Futabasha / Recca-Sha. By searching for more details about these gamebooks, it seems Indy the Magical Kid was written by the same author as the Final Fantasy 2 gamebook and fans feel the two interactive novels are quite similar: https://www.unseen64.net/2017/07/10/indy-magical-kid-shounen-majutsushi-nes-cancelled/