The dolphin lost 30 pieces, and the accident rendered olimar unconscious. When he regained consciousness, he found the planet's atmosphere contained high amounts of oxygen, which is extremely poisonous to his species.Cognitive views of learning fortunately, olimar landed next to the still barely functioning skeletal hull of the dolphin. While wandering around an area he called the impact site, olimar met odd creatures that he called pikmin at what could be considered their nest, an onion.Cognitive views of learning both pikmin and the onions are named after famous foods olimar often ate on hocotate.

These red pikmin that he discovered were able to reproduce more pikmin with olimar's help.Cognitive views of learning olimar directed them to carry his ship's main engine back to the dolphin's remains, which auto-repaired itself with the parts that olimar and the pikmin brought.Cognitive views of learning this allowed the S.S. Dolphin at least lift off for the night and avoid the hostile nocturnal creatures that reside on PNF-404.

As he was looking for more parts, he discovered additional pikmin types, including yellow pikmin and blue pikmin in two different areas.Cognitive views of learning luckily for olimar, he was able to find and recover all of the ship parts on the planet and restore his ship's damage. Before he left, he took a bottle cap from the planet as a souvenir and took notes on the wildlife.Cognitive views of learning

After olimar's success on PNF-404, he was able to blast off the planet to return to hocotate, see his family and return to his normal life. After arriving at hocotate freight, he met up with the president and a new employee named louie.Cognitive views of learning after landing his ship, he learned that the company was in debt, having to pay at least × 10,100 for the loss of a golden pikpik carrot shipment.Cognitive views of learning learning that the dolphin was sold to help pay the debt, olimar was so shocked he dropped the souvenir for his son. As the bottle cap rolled past louie, an old ship was able to suck up the rusty bottle cap.Cognitive views of learning its pod analyzed the piece of salvage to be worth × 100, which lowered the debt to × 10,000. The president commanded olimar and louie to return to the pikmin planet and collect more treasure as a result.Cognitive views of learning

As olimar and louie were heading to the valley of repose, the ship collided with a tree branch, and the resulting impact jolted louie out of the cockpit, leaving olimar to search for him.Cognitive views of learning luckily for olimar, he found a group of red pikmin fighting a lone dwarf red bulborb. He was able to unite with louie by using the pikmin to squash the barriers.Cognitive views of learning before, louie had discovered a treasure, and with the help of olimar, they were able to forage it. They then discovered a series of caves, areas and new pikmin types.Cognitive views of learning

Olimar then told the president that there was more treasure on the planet. The president, looking to increase hocotate freight's fortune, then decided to send olimar and louie back to the planet.Cognitive views of learning only then did he realize that louie was missing. The president decided that he would join olimar to search for louie and to make their company even wealthier.Cognitive views of learning the two went to the wistful wild to start their search and eventually found louie in the dream den.

Due to to the president's excessive spending and failure of a new business venture, olimar is sent back to PNF-404 with louie in search of even more treasure to buy back the S.S.Cognitive views of learning dolphin and repay hocotate freight's newly acquired second debt. However, the hocotate ship lands near a massive creature known as a quaggled mireclops, which destroys it, leaving olimar and louie stranded.Cognitive views of learning as they explore the planet, they inadvertently pick up the koppaites' cosmic drive key.

After a while, olimar starts to enjoy the search for treasure, and even becomes tempted by it.Cognitive views of learning he at one point writes in his diary that he is sick of the president getting everything, and how easy it would be to take just one piece of gold.Cognitive views of learning olimar eventually discovers the formidable oak, seeing something glittering at the top of it. Thinking it must be valuable gold, he climbs to the top, only to find it is actually a living creature, the plasm wraith.Cognitive views of learning the creature eventually obsesses over olimar, preventing him from leaving, yet doesn't harm him. Because of the wraith, each time olimar attempts to escape, his suit's auto-sleep feature prevents him from going through with it.Cognitive views of learning

Captain olimar becomes a pikmin (dubbed by fans as pikmar or olimin) in the bad 'alternative' ending of pikmin, where the S.S. Dolphin fails to take off and crashes on the planet again; olimar is then carried to the red onion by some pikmin and ejected as a seed consisting of only his head and a small stem with leaf.Cognitive views of learning judging by the sounds and visual effects, he appears to flourish to his former size similar to the way pikmin first grow.

This ending is not considered canon with the rest of the series as in pikmin 2 he is seen proceeding to land on hocotate in his ship and so must have obtained at least the 25 mandatory ship parts. "Pikmar" is only ever seen buried, so the rest of his appearance is unknown.Cognitive views of learning it should also be noted that the model used in the in-game cutscene only contains a head.

Why the onion transforms him instead of turning him into true pikmin seeds is unknown.Cognitive views of learning however, it is worth noting that the pikmin silently watch as he is spat out and cheer as he begins to grow, indicating that they expected the transformation to occur.Cognitive views of learning in-game, when pikmin carry olimar to their onion, he is not affected in any way and merely bounces off the alien mother-ship. As such, the process may be controlled by the pikmin themselves.Cognitive views of learning