GameCubeJP: October 26, 2001NA: December 2, 2001PAL: June 14, 2002WiiJP: December 25, 2008EU: February 6, 2009AU: February 26, 2009NA: March 9, 2009KOR: October 27, 2011

GameCube
JP: October 26, 2001
NA: December 2, 2001
PAL: June 14, 2002
Wii
JP: December 25, 2008
EU: February 6, 2009
AU: February 26, 2009
NA: March 9, 2009
KOR: October 27, 2011

Pikmin is a 2001 real-time strategy puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. The game was created and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, and is the first entry in the Pikmin series. The game's story focuses on an alien pilot, Captain Olimar, who crash lands on a mysterious planet and must make use of a native species called "Pikmin" to find his ship's missing parts in order to escape within 30 days. Players take control of Olimar and in directing the different varieties of Pikmin to exploring the game's various levels, overcoming obstacles and hostile creatures, in order to find and recover the missing ship parts.

The game was a critical and commercial success and spawned a series of sequels, starting with Pikmin 2, which was released in 2004. The game was ported to Wii in 2008 under the title New Play Control! Pikmin, while a high-definition remaster was released for Nintendo Switch in 2023.

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