Pikmin 4 Billboard Highlights Game Boy Advance SP

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July already seems to be flying by, doesn’t it? Well, brace yourselves if you’re getting that feeling because next week will be when a significant game release arrives in the form of Pikmin 4. The game has been on gamer’s radars for several years, and now it’s finally about to arrive. But before it officially does, Japan decided to put up some unique billboards highlighting one of the things you can do in the game. Did they focus on the Pikmin themselves? Nope. Did they show off the new character you’ll play? Nope. Instead, they focused on the Game Boy Advance SP.

It certainly is an odd choice to focus a billboard on, but perhaps that is the point. After all, no one expected to see a Game Boy Advance SP within a video game anymore, yet here one is! To be clear, you can’t play the Game Boy Advance SP in the game. Instead, it is one of many “treasures” that your character will need to get the Pikmin to collect and then bring back to your ship. Doing so will help repair it and give you new areas to go and explore.

This “treasure” was the main one highlighted in the trailer, so it’s possible you’ll be getting it early in the game. By that token, that could mean that more “treasures” from Nintendo’s past are awaiting you in the title.

GBA SP-centric Pikmin 4 billboard ad spotted in Japan https://t.co/crQJQNIYPn pic.twitter.com/mc1ItNDABu

If you’re not up to speed on what Pikmin 4 will be like, we got you covered. The game features you as the newest member of the Rescue Corps. You’ll customize your character and then send them off to a strange new world to rescue your teammates. All of them, including the legendary Captain Olimar, have crash-landed on a mysterious planet, and it’s up to you to find them all!

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