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Emiliano Rodolfo Rosales-Birou (born April 8, 1990), also known as Emile Rosales Starting his online career in 2008, Rosales-Birou is most notable for his comprehensive walkthrough videos on various video games released on Nintendo platforms, including titles from the Mother, Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Pikmin, Pokémon, and Xenoblade series.

Alongside his Let's Play videos, Rosales-Birou is a founding member of the collaborative Let's Play YouTube channel The Runaway Guys with fellow Let's Play personalities Proton Jon and NintendoCapriSun. The group's content consists of playthroughs of various multiplayer video games, including Mario Party and New Super Mario Bros.

Early life Rosales-Birou was born on April 8, 1990, and is a native of Phoenix, Arizona. He later moved to an apartment in Conyers, Georgia in 2012, Rosales-Birou had been a member of the EarthBound video game community fan-site Starmen.net as a teenager, where he met fellow content creator and collaborator Stephen Georg; Georg had mentioned how Rosales-Birou had introduced him to the Let's Play genre and inspired him to make his own gaming channel.

YouTube career History (2008–present) Rosales-Birou created his YouTube account on July 26, 2006, under the alias of "Chuggaaconroy," a name he has used as an online pseudonym since he was a child. He would later upload Let's Play videos on the other games in the Mother series.

In July 2010, Rosales-Birou's YouTube account was suspended under false copyright claims, though was restored in August. Timothy Bishop (NintendoCapriSun), a Let's Player and eventual founding member of The Runaway Guys, also had his account suspended at the same time. Also in 2010, Rosales-Birou obtained a YouTube partnership with The Game Station (later named Polaris), a sub-network of Maker Studios. Nintendo had initially targeted and content ID-claimed several of Rosales-Birou's videos in early 2013 due to them containing footage of their games, causing his ad revenue to temporarily decrease, but later ceased doing so.

Rosales-Birou's channel grew in popularity as his gameplay videos were often recommended on YouTube's suggestions, and he has since become a Let's Play creator on YouTube as a full-time job; On his primary YouTube channel, Rosales-Birou has produced over 50 solo Let's Play series of games primarily exclusive to Nintendo systems, such as EarthBound, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Pikmin, Super Mario Galaxy, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Pokémon Emerald, Super Paper Mario, Super Mario 64 DS, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Splatoon. He had previously expressed interest in remaking the series, feeling that he "could have done such a better job now."

The timeframes for Rosales-Birou's Let's Play series for Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 each coincided with the announcements of Xenoblade series characters as playable fighters in the Super Smash Bros. series; those being Shulk in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U, and Pyra & Mythra in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as paid DLC.

Commentary and video style Rosales-Birou's gaming videos have been categorized under the walkthrough genre, and have been described as both entertaining and informative. During his gameplay videos, Rosales-Birou attempts to show every aspect of each individual game he plays to 100% completion, including every item, boss battle, sidequest, and Easter egg possible.

Rosales-Birou commentates in an informative manner in his videos with the purpose of guiding viewers to complete the game themselves. For example, in his Pokémon Emerald series he discusses various strategies and viable techniques to ensure optimal success in the game, In addition to their videos, The Runaway Guys also host the Thrown Controllers event, a live game show which focuses on video game trivia and challenges. The event has been broadcast on numerous gaming conventions such as PAX, Magfest and Momocon.

From 2018 to 2024, the group did gaming live-streams (primarily on Wheeler's Twitch channel) for charity, hosting The Runaway Guys Colosseum stream for the non-profit organization Direct Relief. Guests who collaborated with the group on the stream included YouTube personalities Tom Fawkes, JoshJepson, MasaeAnela, StephenPlays and FamilyJules (who served as one of the group's musical talents). The Completionist also collaborated with the group on the stream prior to the charity fraud allegations surrounding him in 2023. On January 17, 2025, it was announced The Runaway Guys Colosseum had been retired.

Other works In 2014, Rosales-Birou appeared in an episode of Did You Know Gaming? to explain trivia on the EarthBound franchise. He had also collaborated with YouTuber TheJWittz in a video discussing theories on the Pokémon character Giovanni from Team Rocket.

In 2012, he appeared in an episode of The Game Station Podcast hosted by British YouTuber TotalBiscuit.

In June 2022, Rosales-Birou attended the Games Done Quick event Summer Games Done Quick and served as a couch commentator for a speedrun of Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country by notable speed-runner Enel.

Public image Rosales-Birou's Let's Play videos have been received positively. Jennifer O'Connell from The Irish Times noted Rosales-Birou's content as a family-friendly alternative to more vulgar YouTubers, Rosales-Birou's YouTube channel name was featured as a cheat code for the 2019 Metroidvania game Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, alongside other prominent internet personalities. In 2020, Rosales-Birou's Super Mario Sunshine Let's Play was listed as one of the top ten memes of the game following the release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, which featured a high-definition port of Super Mario Sunshine.

Rosales-Birou's YouTube channel reached 1 million subscribers and 760 million views in 2015, and is at over 1.25 million subscribers and 1.29 billion views .

Filmography Web series