Pikmin was one of Nintendo's more unusual IPs, but what prompted Shigeru Miyamoto to create such a game?

"Every once in a while, you want to make something that high school girls can get into," he said.

GameCube strategy game Pikmin might have been inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto's gardening, but do you know why he made the game?

"Every once in a while, you want to make something that high school girls can get into," the famed Nintendo creator said at a recent symposium.

The concept behind Pikmin, reports Japanese site 4Gamer, was to make something that they could play.

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