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From TV Animation - One Piece: Become the Pirate King!

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One Piece: Become the Pirate King! is a card-driven strategy game for the WonderSwan handheld. Released by Bandai in mid-2000, it is the first video game built on the One Piece license and follows Luffy's early East Blue voyages.

Genre: Strategy role-playing
Platform: WonderSwan
Developer: Soft Machine
Publisher: Bandai
Release Year: 2000
Japan Release Date: 2000-07-19
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Gameplay

Players draw playing cards to plot a route across sea maps, with each card setting the type of path and how far the crew moves. Reaching an enemy triggers a fight, and a stage is cleared by beating all three foes or sinking the rival ship.
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Story and Setting

The plot tracks Monkey D. Luffy at the dawn of the Great Pirate Era, twenty years after Gold Roger's execution set off the hunt for the One Piece. It loosely covers the East Blue saga and pulls in material from the first One Piece film as Luffy gathers his first crewmates.
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Development and Release

Soft Machine designed the title and Bandai published it in Japan on July 19, 2000. It never left Japan, and by the end of that year it had sold close to 19,800 copies. It remains the only One Piece game playable on the original monochrome WonderSwan.
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