We're finally in the middle of a proper Pikmin revival, and fans are taking the opportunity to reminisce about how Ni🌠ntendo left a native PC port of the first game on the original disc.

Years ago, fans discovered that Nintendo included - probably accidentally - a Windows executable file on the original 2001 GameCube disc that lets you run the game on PC. It seems to be a developer build o⛄f the game, as it comes with a ton of debugging tools and no shortage of graphical glitches. It'll even run on modern PCs with a bit of to find the correct DLL files, but it's not exactly an ideal♊ way to play the game - after all, it doesn't let you save.

, and it is an absolutely fascinating bit of Nintendo history. Games are obviously developed on PCs, but while Nintendo licensed a handful of its properties for computer games back in '80s and '90s, it officially published a grand total of zero internally-developed PC titles in its lifetime.

With the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pikmin remasters upon us, series fans are taking the time to remember this historical oddity, and one tweet on the subject has gone moderately viral - prompting responses ranging "WHAT?!?" "𒐪This is actually crazy!"

The Pikmin series 🐻seemed destined for the same historical dustbin where Nintendo keeps the likes of F-Zero and Golden Sun, but between the new remasters, the mobile title Pikmin Bloom, and the impending rele📖ase of Pikmin 4, it looks like the little plant guys are here to stay.

A bit of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:hands-on time with Pikmin 4 has one GamesRadar+ writer ready to become a fan of the whole series.