PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit

PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit is a WiiWare video game released in 2009 by Nintendo. The game costs 1000 and 800 Nintendo Points in Japan an NA/PAL regions, respectively. Pop-Up Pursuit is a board game styled title developed by Grounding. A DSiWare successor was created called PictureBook Games: The Royal Bluff.

Development
The developers of the game were discussing who they should go to to publish their video game concept. Half jokingly they mentioned Nintendo yet were able to set up a meeting with president Satoru Iwata who agreed to fund the title as long as they set up an entity, which led to the creation of Grounding. They said that for a long time they've been talking about making a picture pop-up game. Before PictureBook Games they were discussing the possibilities of creating an adventure RPG but decided against it due to an unnamed The Legend of Zelda video game.

The people representing Nintendo, producers Kensuke Tanabe and Risa Tabata, said that the reaction to this game among play testers in Japan was surprisingly more positive than another game they worked on: Metroid Prime, a game, while popular in America, Europe and Australia, didn't manage to strike a chord with Japanese players. Tabata stated that the response was much more "enthusiastic" this time around and that many people in Japan explained to her that Metroid Prime was "fun, but not for everyone".