| Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! | |
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 Game Boy Color cover art for Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! | |
| Developer(s) | Pax Softnica |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Mariko Yumoto |
| Producer(s) | Shigeru Miyamoto Kenji Miki Masahiro Tatemoto |
| Designer(s) | Suzumu Tomizawa |
| Composer(s) | Satoko Yokota |
| Series | Hamtaro |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Color |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite![a] is an adventure video game developed by Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Color handheld video game console. It is based on the Hamtaro anime and features much of the same characters. It launched in Japan in 2001, and later came to North America and Europe in 2002 and 2003 respectively. It was the final video game published on the Game Boy Color by Nintendo. Players control the hamster Hamtaro, who is tasked with gathering his friends and returning them to the clubhouse as well as collecting words missing from the Hamchat dictionary.
The game received generally positive reception, with reviewers such as IGN and Eurogamer noting its success as both a game for children and a game that could appeal to older audiences. It was the seventh best-selling game for the Game Boy Color in Japan. The successor of the 2000 Game Boy Color game Tottoko Hamtaro: Tomodachi Daisakusen Dechu, it was followed by Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance which featured similar gameplay mechanics.
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