One of my favorite parts of the game was if you go to the grocery store, you can meet a hamster who asks for help opening a pack of cookies. If you help him, he says they're good, but not as good as his mom's. If you return to the shrine level, you can talk to a lonely old hamster who will bring you inside her house and, if you've talked to the grocery hamster, will give you a fresh baked cookie. You can return to the grocery ham and give him this cookie, to which he'll realize it actually is his mom and she's been lonely since he left home. From that point on, you can return to the lonely ham's house and you'll find not her, being sad, but the grocery ham telling you how he's reconnecting with his mom. There's no objective to this, it's completely missable, but it's such a lovely little side quest just to do on the merit of it being adorable. There's a lot of charm in this game like that.

Also, don't sleep on Ham Ham Heartbreak, these games are excellent to just relax and have a wholesome time

Chaz said “y’all ain’t seeing these feet for free”

I had absolutely no idea Hamtaro didn't do well here ;-; thats genuinely sad I used to love it I think I even had a dvd

Lmao, the censored feet. Incredible.

I was surprised when you described this show as a failure because here in Italy it was a pretty big success and all 200+ episodes got adapted

Consistent Tama content has been one of the redeeming qualities of 2020.

I'm baffled. Everyone I've ever talked with about Hamtaro loves it. I only learned it was obscure when trying to buy the entire series. It just doesn't exist haha...ha.

I like Ham Hams Unite. But Ham Ham Heartbreak will always be my favorite. Taking all the best elements from Unite and building on them to make this perfectly crafted, charming game. One of the few games I’d want to 100 percent every time I played it.

Move over Detective Pikachu - Detective Tama is on the case! Honestly Hamtaro deserved a better chance in the west for the anime. But I’m glad that the games were able to captivate an audience past the canceled anime.

Im 26 and still love Hamtaro just as much as I did when I was 10.

Today I learned Hamtaro bombed in America. TBH tho, I don’t even remember anything from the anime outside of the intro and ending (which the ending looking back actually makes the series that much more out of place in Toonami’s lineup). It sucks it wasn’t given a fair shot though. I believe Jason DeMarco, one of the dudes that ran Toonami, said they hated Hamtaro because it was pushed onto them when they knew it didn’t fit with what they had going. Maybe if it had been on the Miguzi slot that was for younger kids that came out in 2006 it would’ve worked out better but “c'est la vie” I guess. On the Hamtaro game tho, I honestly thought it WAS a GBA title until you said otherwise. That’s crazy high polish.

"WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE GAMEFREAK?" 👌🏽

"what's your excuse game freak"

i was Obsessed with hamtaro as a kid, i still have one of those toy pencil toppers that looks like one of the characters. i was honestly really sad finding out a few years ago how bad it did here, and how few people knew about it these days. im still secretly hoping that one day itll get a reboot or something, since with the internet and old cutesy anime things becoming popular for “aesthetic” bloggers, maybe itll jostle up enough hype for some new stuff :) hamtaro will always be important to me

Learning about this is so cool. Hamtaro is the reason I raised so many hamsters in fact.

not much related to the video but the little "obey" thing with the subscribe and notification button made me giggle

I loved literally everything about this video. You made really good points about the game, the writing and jokes are very well done and on-point, I loved that you mentioned Toonami's airing of the show (I'm sorry, I'm a HUGE Toonami geek), and even the promotion for the BATH PRODUCTS was great (bonus points for that very brief scene with Chaz).

I was in middle school when the Hamtaro anime came out, so I

I was delighted to see a video about Hamtaro in my subscriptions! Interesting that you know of this franchise from the games - I got into it from the anime! Even though it didn’t live long on TV, I was in kindergarten or first grade when it was on so I was in the right demographic for it. I recall my mom searching the clearance sections of toy stores to try to get the figurines for me before they all disappeared from the shelves. I was obsessed! Later I got a DS and was able to play Ham Ham Heartbreak (GBA) on it. I think I actually never beat the game cause there were so many puzzles to work through… I’d like to revisit it now and see how I fair as an adult, haha.