Pikmin (ピクミン Pikumin?) is a strategy video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube video game console in 2001.Pikmin is a 3D, top-down, strategy game, with the player controlling Captain Olimar from a third-person viewpoint. Olimar is followed by the Pikmin, whom he directs. Both Olimar and the Pikmin are approximately an inch in height.[6] The basis of gameplay in Pikmin is to retrieve ship parts by using the three varieties of Pikmin available in different combinatio…