The video game series debuted in Japan on July 19, 2000, with
From TV Animation – One Piece: Become the Pirate King! (One Piece: Mezase Kaizoku Ou!) for the Bandai
WonderSwan Color handheld game console. More than five years after the video game series debuted in Japan,
One Piece: Grand Battle! Rush was the first
One Piece video game to be localized and released in North America, on September 7, 2005, for
Nintendo GameCube. Out of 38 games (not including non-Japanese games), 11 have been released in North America, two in Australia, and 13 in Europe. Japan's large demand for such games leads its companies to produce the games with haste and thus low regard for quality. In contrast, the
One Piece video game, which was produced for and exclusively released to the North American markets, was crowned "GBA Platformer of the Year" in 2005 by
GameSpy's network of game websites. ==Series==