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| “ | Hey, everybody. It's Chuggaaconroy! | ” |
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Emiliano Rodolfo Rosales-Birou (born: April 8, 1990), better known online as Chuggaaconroy or Chugga (also known as Emile), is an American gaming YouTuber known for his Let's Plays of Nintendo games. On August 18, 2010, just one day after he announced he was teaming up with The Game Station, he obtained YouTube Partnership. To show off his new partnership he posted a message to his fans via Facebook and Twitter to inform them that they could now click on a character in the timeline to view a playlist of their Let's Play. He has had many banners since. He has said his favorite game is Xenoblade Chronicles.
History
Emile joined YouTube on July 26, 2006. After doing a video of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Emile began an official walkthrough of Earthbound on March 26, 2008. 82 parts into the walkthrough, Emile showed proof of a special event involving a Toys 'R' Us Darkrai in Pokémon Diamond & Pearl. The playlist for Earthbound had 99 videos with the entire walkthrough and some bonus compilations. After completing Earthbound. Emile's next walkthrough was Mother (also known as Earthbound Beginnings), which started on June 14, 2008. Seven parts into the walkthrough, Emile showed another special event involving a GameStop Deoxys in Pokémon Diamond & Pearl. Afterwards, he resumed activities involving Mother. The playlist for Mother contained 38 videos, including the walkthrough and bonus features.
Emile next did a video of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and then two special event Pokémon videos which featured Regigigas and Shaymin, both from the Japanese movie. On August 2, 2008, Emile began a walkthrough of Paper Mario. The playlist contained 85 videos, including the walkthrough and some bonus features. Next came Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, which started on September 24, 2008. After 31 parts, Emile began doing Mother 3, which started on October 17, 2008. He split time between both games and also showed two videos of Wi-Fi battles in Brawl. He evenly did an Animal Crossing Christmas special. Super Mario RPG had 78 videos in its playlist while Mother 3 had 108 videos in its playlist.
On February 27, 2009, Emile began doing a walkthrough of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. As the walkthrough was in progress, Emile did three videos of Mega Man 2 on April 1, 2009 as part of an April Fools Day project. The playlist for The Thousand-Year Door contained 86 videos, including some bonus features. Next came Pokémon FireRed which started on June 1, 2009. After doing the main quest, Emile decided to put the rest on hold and switch over to Super Mario Sunshine, which started on August 10, 2009. After finishing the game with 41 games in the playlist, Emile resumed duties with FireRed, and the playlist for that game had 61 videos. On December 2, 2009, Emile began doing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. The playlist contained 86 videos, including some bonus features.
Emile's most notable walkthrough was Pokémon Crystal, which started on March 14, 2010. A month since the walkthrough began, Part 18 of the series featured a video where Emile reacted dramatically after encountering a shiny Koffing in the basement of the Burned Tower. Emile successfully caught the Koffing after two Poké Ball attempts. The playlist for Pokémon Crystal contained 64 videos with bonus features included.
On August 6, 2010, Emile did a walkthrough of Super Mario Galaxy by playing exclusively as Luigi. The playlist had 47 videos. On August 22, 2010, Emile did a walkthrough of Pikmin with the playlist containing 18 videos. On December 11, 2010, Emile did a walkthrough on Okami, which ended in 80 videos on the playlist.
On May 29, 2011, Emile began a walkthrough of Luigi's Mansion for the GameCube, which ended in 17 videos for the playlist. A day later, he did a walkthrough of Pikmin 2, with 52 videos in the playlist. On September 30, 2011, Emile began a walkthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, which helped him gain further recognition worldwide. The playlist for Majora's Mask yielded 62 videos.
A walkthrough for Pokémon Emerald began on January 15, 2012. The playlist contained 65 videos, with other features including special events and the Battle Frontier. Next in line came Super Paper Mario, which started on April 26, 2012, and had 61 videos in the playlist.
Side projects
The Speed Gamers
Emile does speed-runs of games, such as Earthbound and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for marathons. He has helped commentate a few times. He also has an account on the TSG forums. He appeared on-camera during the Winter 2009 Pokémon Marathon, wearing a silver mask concealing his face. He also helped out in the recent Mother/Earthbound marathon with TSG, by doing a speed run of Earthbound, and attempting to break the world record. Due to unfortunate circumstances, he did not accomplish his goal. He attended the Mario Marathon on June 11, 2010 for TSG, to raise money for ACT Today, where he took off his mask and showed his face to the public for the first time.
TheRunawayGuys
TheRunawayGuys are a group of 3 popular LPers, Chuggaaconroy, ProtonJonSA, and NintendoCapriSun. Together, they do many collaborations and invitational tournaments between themselves and other guest LPers such as JoshJepson, Lucahjin, MasaeAnela, and SuperJeenius. Chuggaaconroy handles the channel.
BrainScratchComms
Chuggaaconroy has collaborated with the YouTube Channel "BrainScratchComms" for a few projects which include:
Recording style
He records his videos with a Black Magic capture card with component cables for many of his LP's, and edits them with Sony Vegas Pro 13. When he records standard definition game consoles, he uses a Hauppauge capture card.
He does not record farther than a resolution of 480p for most of his videos, that being the games that he is recording do not have a higher resolution than 480p. In most LP's, he uses sidebars or pop ups to display information of things that can be collected (I.E Stray Beads from Okami, the chance of finding a wild Pokémon in FireRed, Crystal, and Emerald, or the items collected in Pikmin 2). This information is helpful to those who are playing along with him during the LP.
There are some points in his videos that have events that take too long to be shown in real time, so he speeds up the video while playing some video game music, some of which have referenced a future Let's Play.
On October 1, 2011, Chuggaaconroy mentioned on his social networking site that he will begin to upload his videos in 720p, even though the video quality of the games do not exceed 480p. YouTube's compression to the video file will decrease the audio quality as compression is not as high in 720p.
Catchphrases
Chugga has coined some memorable catchphrases. Some have come to be a staple in most of his series. Some were used in one LP, and he references them every now and then. And for a particular one, he groans every time he hears it (most of all when ProtonJon talks about it during a RunawayGuys Super Smash Bros. Brawl episode). Here is a list of every single quip his viewers have come to love and enjoy.
- Hey everybody it's Chuggaaconroy! (Intro)
- STEVE?!?! Steve is a trooper! (Pikmin)
- I don' kno' what I'm talkin' bout (In a Bill Cosby voice)
- Oh! I grabbed onto the ledge! (Super Mario Sunshine)
- NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO FUDGESICLES (Super Mario Sunshine)
- NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!
- AAAAAAANNNDDDDUUUUUUGHHHHHHHH aw...
- WHAT?! WHAAAATTT?!?! NO! NO! NO! I WHISTLED THEM! (Pikmin)
- And there's the boss ke- GODDAMNIT!
- AAAAAGHHH, I. HATE,
- Bowsers Arms! (Super Paper Mario)
- For the love... of... Hillary Duff... on a stick! (Mother 3 / Earthbound 2)
- OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD! ARE YOU SERIOUS?! *insert obnoxious scream here*
- GAAAAAAAAAAAME!!!!!!
Quotes
- "YOU ASS!!!" (Pokémon Platinum)
- "BRING IT ON!" (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
- "WOLLYWOOOOG!" (Pikmin 2)
- Chugga (to guest, MasaeAnela): We're not keeping this in?
- Masae: No
- Chugga: In that case, f***, s***, c***
- Masae: *laughs uncontrollably* (Pikmin 3: Mission mode)
- Ohhh! Oh my god as soon as I cut the video I found a Phanpy!*laughs* (Pokémon Crystal)
- "Maybe this is it now? Yes this was it and *Wild Koffing sparkles* OH MY GOD *laughs, coughs then wheezes* This is something that is very rare, this is a shiny Pokémon, there is a 1/8192 chance you will find one of these" (Pokémon Crystal)
- "Let's just go around and...shi- my controller's dead NO! MY BATTERIES!" (Super Mario Sunshine)
- Teddy is loafing around. (Pokémon Emerald)
- "NOSE LASER!" (Pokémon Emerald)
- "NUKE IT!" (Pokémon Black/White)
- "Moltres, I am here recording this on a Saturday night. You think I'm just going to give up, and I'm gonna go somewhere else and I'm gonna give up on catching you? You think I have better things to do than sitting here trying to cram a six-foot tall bird into something the size of a baseball? You think I have friends to go see? You think I have places to go hang outs? You think I have dates to go on? You think I have sex to have? Well, apparently, you don't know teenage boys on the internet very well."
