Gaming Historian/The Story of ME-Tan's World

in 2003, Microsoft released a game for their competitor, ME-Tan's World, the game has some neat minigames once you beat some levels, but it wasn't originally on GBA, it was on the SNES, but we must dive all the way back to 1998.

This is the story of ME-Tan's world.

Part 1: The origins

in March of 1998, Kirby's Dream Land 3 was released in Japan, America got the game earlier all the way back in November of 1997, after this release, some fans are wondered if there will be a 4th Kirby's Dream Land game, so Yoshitake Yumezumi decided to develop Hoshi no Kirby 4 for the Famicom, they choose that console because it sold more units than most recent consoles at the time, except for the Game Boy, so they choose Kirby as a placeholder, they pitched it to Sakurai, Sakurai loved the idea, so Yumezumi decided to continue working on the game, but however, the system was so limited, with the biggest limitations being that it can only display 3/4 color per tile/sprite piece, lacking semi-transparency and multi-layer support, only 5 channels for music and that only 64 sprites are shown on screen with 8 sprites per scanline, so they reworked the project on the Super Famicom, and turned it into a Stickventures game in order to avoid lawsuits, so in May of 2000, Super Stickventures 2 was released on the Satellaview, it was a demo for an upcoming game.

Part 2: The new stickventures

As mentioned earlier, Super Stickventures 2 was a demo for a 2003 game, the game was completely different from Hoshi no Kirby 4, the game was more advanced, thanks to the SNES's enhanced power, but the service got shut down a month later, which made the game fell into obscurity until a ROM was dumped on the internet.

Part 3: A big introduction

After the service got closed, Yumezumi decided to rebrand the game again, in 2001, Futaba Channel was founded and bought Gaming Game Japan for a million yen, so Gaming Game Japan was renamed to Futaba Games, the first game released by Futaba Games was Gamepholio for the Super Famicom, it is a localized version of a game in Chile called Juegofolio, which came out (almost) 8 years earlier, one of the biggest change is that Mahjong was added in the Japanese version, so on August 6th, 2003, ME-Tan appears in Futaba Channel, she was an OS girl with green hair, a cowlick, and an exclamation mark, so they a