The Pikmin series (for the Nintendo GameCube, and the Wii U), made by Shigeru Miyamoto (who has helped make the Mario and The Legend of Zelda series), stars a Hocotatian named Olimar. In each game he somehow ends up on a planet reffered as Pikmin Planet or PNF-404 (by the habitants of Koppai), and needs the Pikmin to help him out with his problems. In the end Captain Olimar always goes back home to Hocotate, but the Pikmin are left behind in the planet. In the second game Olimar managed to help the Pikmin from dying out, but each color is very close to extinction, or is already extinct.