Whistle-blower.
With all the talk around the launch (and state) of Nintendo 64 games with the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, it may well have slipped your notice that Pikmin — the Nintendo RTS series that grew from an idea Shigeru Miyamoto had while chilling in his garden — is now two decades old.
Yes, time marches on and we retro gaming fans feel more decrepit by the day. It was 20 years ago yesterday (26th October) that Pikmin launched in Japan and Nintendo fans got their first look at an IP both disarmingly cute and alarmingly cruel in equal measure. We often think back on the legions of little Pikmin we unwittingly marched to their doom with a tinge of sadness and not a small amount of full-on guilt.
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