Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak

All the hamsters are bickering, and there's little wonder why! Spat, a meddling troublemaker, is telling fibs and causing heartache everywhere. It's up to Hamtaro and best-girl Bijou to follow Spat, stop the…

80 3 May 2002

What Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak is

Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak is an adventure game developed by Pax Softnica and released in 2002. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak is a video game in the Hamtaro game series for Game Boy Advance developed by Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo, as the sequel to Tottoko Hamutaro: Tomodachi Daisakusen Dechu and Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!. It was the second Hamtaro game released in America and Europe, but the third released in Japan. It was released in Japan on May 3, 2002, in North America on April 7, 2003, in Australia on May 30, 2003, and in Europe on June 27, 2003. Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak was followed by Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Hamtaro series

Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak is the third of 10 entries we hold in the Hamtaro series. It arrived a year after Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!. The next entry was Tottoko Hamtaro Card-e in 2003.

See all 10 Hamtaro games in release order →

How it was received

Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak launched on 3 May 2002, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International, Spider-Man and Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International, Spider-Man, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer