What is Pikmin (video game)?
{{Italic title}} {{no sources|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox VG | title = Pikmin | image = | developer = [[Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development|Nintendo EAD]] | publisher = [[Nintendo]] | designer = [[Shigefumi Hino]]<br />[[Masamichi Abe]]<br />[[Shigeru Miyamoto]] | engine = | released = <small><sup>'''[[Japan|JPN]]'''</sup></small> October 26, 2001<br /><small><sup>'''[[North America|NA]]'''</sup></small> December 3, 2001<br /><small><sup>'''[[Europe|EU]]'''</sup></small> June 14, 2002 | genre = [[Real-time strategy]] | modes = [[Single player]] | platforms = [[Nintendo GameCube]], [[Nintendo Wii]], [[Nintendo Switch]] }} '''''Pikmin''''' is a [[real-time strategy]] [[video game]] developed and published by [[Nintendo]] for the [[Nintendo GameCube]], and later the [[Wii]] and [[Nintendo Switch|Switch]]. The plot involves an alien captain named Captain Olimar who crash-lands on a [[planet]] and meets creatures called Pikmin, which he uses to protect himself and find his ship parts before he runs out of air. ==Plot== ===Setting=== The in-game universe has many locations, including a planet known as Hocotate, where Olimar is from, and a planet that resembles [[Earth]]. In-game, the planet is from a small perspective, as both Olimar and the Pikmin are no larger than US quarters. ===Summary=== Captain Olimar is traveling in his spaceship called the [[Dolphin]], when it suddenly collides with a meteor and crashes on an [[Earth|unknown planet resembling Earth]]. He travels for a bit before he finds a creature called a Pikmin. He meets up with other Pikmin, and has to use them to gather up the pieces he lost from his ship before 30 days run out, or the game will be over. ==Gameplay== The player controls Captain Olimar, who can throw the Pikmin. Pikmin are plucked out of the ground, and they live in a nest called an [[onion]] when they are not deployed. There can be up to 100 different Pikmin out of the onions at any moment. There are three kinds of Pikmin, stronger Red Pikmin, immune to fire, lighter Y