Is Nintendo returning to Pikmin animated shorts?

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A series of mysterious animated shorts popped up on number of official Nintendo channels this week, confounding and exciting fans of the Japanese game maker.

In the first of the two shorts, a baby left to their own devices chases a floating pacifier, eventually standing on up to take its first wobbly steps before falling into the quickly returning mom’s arms.

In the second video, the same event plays out, but now you can see it’s Pikmin, stars of four of Nintendo’s popular games, and invisible to the human eye, that are behind the bouncing pacifier.

While the videos were obviously relatively new creations, it reminded me of a conversation I had more than a decade ago.

After a bit of thinking and rooting around on the internet, I remembered what rang such a loud bell for me.

You can read the full column, which was first published on Oct. 8, here.