Mario & Luigi Studio’s First GBA RPG Now Playable In English

The obscure 2002 Game Boy Advance RPG Tomato Adventure is finally playable in English thanks to a fan translation patch released last week, arriving nearly 20 years since the role-playing game first came out in Japan.

Despite launching in the early aughts, Tomato Adventure never left its home country. It’s a shame, as this handheld gem was developed by none other than AlphaDream, a studio founded in 2000 by several ex-Square staffers. That name may not immediately ring a bell—second-party studios often get lost in the shuffle as they create games for much larger companies—but I imagine you’re familiar with Super Mario RPG.

Yep, before forming AlphaDream, staffers like Tomato Adventure director Chihiro Fujioka previously worked on the Super Nintendo classic Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. And shortly after establishing AlphaDream, they would return to the Mushroom Kingdom to almost exclusively develop every game in Nintendo’s Mario & Luigi series of portable RPGs.

That’s one hefty pedigree! But sadly, AlphaDream would go bankrupt in 2019.

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