Important Importables: Ochaken

We already know that it’s a fairly common practice in Japan for popular mascot characters to receive their own video games. It happens, and is usually no big deal.

Except in the case of Ochaken, the little Sega Toys tea dogs who could.

These little mascot toys ended up finding substantial success not only as mascots, but as video game stars. The characters have spawned GBA and DS games, as well as an anime series and spin-off Ochaneko (tea cat) characters.

The best part is, due to the genres that the Ochaken games belong to, all the games are import friendly. You can get through the pet sims and platformers without being able to read or speak Japanese…