Pikmin 1
Pikmin 1 was first announced as a Bonus video with Luigi's Mansion for the Nintendo Gamecube, it was dealt a bad hand from the start. It released in 2001 and was a small Gamecube game at the start of the Gamecube's lifespan. Chronologically it is the first game in the Pikmin timeline, and sees the main character (Captain Olimar) crash landing on an unknown planet. Where he has to collect his missing ship parts using the help of the pikmin. The pikmin are the games main mechanic as you use them to do almost everything like carrying stuff back to the onions and Captain Olimar's Ship. The pikmin can be obtained by bringing corpses to the pikmin's homes, the pikmin are plant-like creatures who aid olimar in finding his missing ship parts. Pikmin 1 also got a port to the Nintendo Wii in 2009 and Nintendo Switch in 2023.
