Domo-Kun no Fushigi Terebi
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Domo-Kun no Fushigi Terebi (Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

: どーもくんの不思議てれび, Domo-kun's Mysterious Television) is a video game for the Game Boy Advance
Game Boy Advance
The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China...

 featuring Domo-kun
Domo-kun
is the official mascot of Japan's NHK television station, appearing in several 30 second stop-motion interstitial sketches shown as station identification during shows.-Name:...

, of NHK
NHK
NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....

 television network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...

. It was released exclusively in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 on February 21, 2002.

Synopsis

A meteorite destroys Usaji's television satellite, causing Domo-kun to become frustrated at their now non-functional TV. After hitting it several times, Domo-kun is sucked into the television and finds himself in a variety of programming.

Domo-kun is the mascot for NHK (one of Japan's major broadcasting companies). In his first Game Boy Advance title, Domo must pass various mini-games in order to return to the world outside of the television. Games include (among others) hatching birds in a nature show, successfully hitting home runs in the baseball broadcast and getting the beat right in a rhythm action game.

Nintendo extended the title via its e-Reader
E-Reader
The is a device made by Nintendo for its Game Boy Advance portable video game system. It was first released in Japan in December 2001, with a North American release following in September 2002...

attachment by releasing a 100-card series (exclusive to Japan, sold in packs and boxes) in 2002-03.

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