Pikmin series

Pikmin is the name of a video game series developed by Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube platform. The games feature small, multi-colored creatures known as Pikmin which resemble different colored tiny people with a stalk ontop of their head from which a leaf, bud, or flower sits. The hero of the games, Captain Olimar, in addition to his partner in the second game, Louie, command the Pikmin in battles with larger creatures residing on the same planet. The advantage to the Pikmin usually comes in numbers, as a single Pikmin can easily be defeated by a larger foe, and the Pikmin stand little chance without a commander.

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Video game - Series - Nintendo - Shigeru Miyamoto - Nintendo GameCube - Pikmin - Captain Olimar - Louie

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Pikmin grow, like plants, from sprouts in the ground. Before a Pikmin can grow, a seed must be first planted. Seeds usually come from the insertion of objects called pellets, into a large Pikmin storage device known as an Onion. The pellets are acquired when an enemy is successfully defeated. Pellets also are grown from flowers, known as Pellet Posies. When an enemy dies, it releases the pellets which can then be carried back to the onion by a group of Pikmin (the amount of Pikmin needed to carry the pellet back depends on the size of the pellet). The Onion then releases Pikmin seeds into the ground below which take about 10 seconds to mature into full-fledged Pikmin that can be picked from the ground by Captain Olimar. The Onion can also be used to store the Pikmin for the night when the day is over, for if they were left out at night they would probably be devoured by stray Bulborbs.

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Plant - Bulborb

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Two video games have been released in the Pikmin series thus far; Pikmin and Pikmin 2. The first video game starred Captain Olimar solely, although the second game also incorporated Louie, who can be used in conjunction with Captain Olimar in order to command two groups of Pikmin at once. It is interesting to note that the names "Olimar" and "Louie" were probably based off of Mario and Luigi, which are also developed by Shigeru Miyamoto. The name "Olimar" is a partial anagram of Mario in English (though it has an extra L), while in Japanese it's a perfect anagram. "Louie" simply sounds simular to Luigi.

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Pikmin - Pikmin 2 - Mario - Luigi

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According to an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, the original plans for Pikmin were to be a game where one could watch the development of two human beings. That games working title was "Adam and Eve". Eventually, this idea was found to be far too uninteractive and thus Pikmin were introduced as well as the other concepts found in the game, and most of the original plans were scrapped.

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Shigeru Miyamoto - Working title - Pikmin

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