ChuChu Rocket!

We'll see once I get into this, maybe I'll upgrade to a, to a custom device for this show.

All right, with all that covered, I don't think we have anything else we need to talk about other than our very first game of the podcast, ChuChu Rocket.

[ChuChu Rocket theme music] Released alongside the Game Boy Advance June 11th, 2001 in North America.

It was developed by Sonic Team, one of the properties that they worked on other than that fast blue hedgehog, and developed by Sega, of course, alongside that.

It was originally released for the Dreamcast before being ported to the Game Boy Advance and then way, way later coming to iOS and Android as fun puzzle games that you can download.

ChuChu Rocket was originally released to try and test the Dreamcast, see how many mice they could get on screen at once.

It's a lot.

And then was ported to the Game Boy Advance a little bit later after that.

Yes.

Um, but she picked up a Dreamcast with ChuChu Rocket, Sonic Adventure, and, uh, Super Magnetic Neo.

Whoa.

D- [laughs]

Yes, it was, yeah.

Because, yeah, if you did it, if you then connected, you got a free copy of Choo Choo Rocket, which I remember getting.

Ah, Choo Choo Rocket.

And playing that online, that was fun.

There was a game they released called Toy Racer.

Mm.

Like ChuChu Rocket, or like, you know, all of these other just bizarre, weird-ass games that are like super experimental, super Japanese, super like inexplicable, weird games.

'Cause they're just like, "Hey, man, Sony's got the lockdown on real people games.

Nintendo's got the lockdown on kid people games."

... that I loved as a kid." And I went Oh, I don't remember playing this game because I never owned a Dreamcast.

Oh.

[laughs]

...

No.

ChuChu Rocket.

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