Chuggaaconroy
Emiliano Rodolfo Rosales-Birou, known as Emile Rosales and best known as Chuggaaconroy, is an American internet personality, YouTuber and prominent Let's Player. He is a founding member of TheRunawayGuys, a collaborative Let's Play YouTube channel, along with fellow Let's Players ProtonJon and NintendoCapriSun.
Personal life
Rosales-Birou is a native of Phoenix, Arizona. He has stated that he grew up in both Arizona and Florida. In 2012, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia. He has also mentioned that he lived in Florida at some time.In adolescence, Rosales-Birou developed a fear of roller coasters after Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain derailing that killed two people aboard the train, claiming to have been on the attraction earlier in the day, and that he had planned to ride it again. He has mentioned in videos that he struggled with family and financial issues during his childhood, as well as with autism. For a short period of time, he believed he was misdiagnosed. However, he later backed down from that statement, having no evidence to disprove it. He has spoken many times of not having a healthy relationship with his father, citing drug use, alcoholism, and neglectfulness.
Rosales-Birou later founded the collaborative Let's Play channel TheRunawayGuys, consisting mainly of himself, Jonathan "ProtonJon" Wheeler, and Timothy "'NintendoCapriSun" Bishop.
Rosales-Birou has been friends with fellow content creator Stephen Georg, who also serves as his graphic designer, since he was 14 years old. In the midst of Hurricane Florence in September 2018, Rosales invited Georg and family to stay with him as they rode out the storm.
YouTube career
Rosales-Birou joined YouTube, just a year after the site was founded, on July 26, 2006 at the age of 16 as "Chuggaaconroy", a name he has used as an online pseudonym since he was a child.On March 26, 2008, he began posting his Let's Play of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System RPG EarthBound. He has since produced 44 solo Let's Plays, and his content has been cited as a family-friendly alternative to more vulgar Let's Players, as well as being cited as one of the most influential. In an interview with Wired, it was claimed that whenever he would curse he would receive "concerned letters from the parents of younger viewers."
Early in his video-making career, Rosales-Birou notoriously neglected revealing his face until TheSpeedGamers' 2010 charity stream, in which he removed the silver mask he wore as a donation-incentive.
In July 2010, Rosales-Birou's account was suspended under false copyright claims, though it was restored in late August.
Currently, all of Rosales-Birou's main Let's Plays have been played on a Nintendo console. Of these, Ōkami, Ōkamiden, Sonic Colors, and Chrono Trigger are the only ones not based on any Nintendo-owned IPs. In 2014, Rosales-Birou underwent medical treatment for a bronchial infection, forcing him to take 4 months off; consequently, his then-current playthrough of Xenoblade Chronicles became his longest in terms of release timeframe, lasting from June 2014 until June 2015.At 119 episodes, it is also his longest Let's Play by episode count. His inaugural Let's Play of EarthBound is so far the first and only game Rosales-Birou has Let's Played twice— once in 2008, and again in 2018— the second instance coinciding with the tenth anniversary of his channel.
Videography
Solo projects
| Game played | Original run | Videos in playlist | Length | Playlist views |
| EarthBound | March 26, 2008 – June 10, 2008 | 99 | 15h 15m 3s | 3.9M |
| Mother | June 13, 2008 – July 27, 2008 | 37 | 6h 48s | 907K |
| Paper Mario | August 1, 2008 – September 23, 2008 | 85 | 14h 11m 30s | 4.1M |
| ' | September 25, 2008 – November 25, 2008 | 61 | 11h 25m 50s | 2.6M |
| Mother 3 | October 17, 2008 – February 17, 2009 | 108 | 15h 17m 40s | 3.1M |
| ' | February 27, 2009 – May 25, 2009 | 86 | 13h 52m 53s | 8.5M |
| Pokémon FireRed | June 1, 2009 – November 24, 2009 | 62 | 9h 19s | 5.3M |
| Super Mario Sunshine | August 9, 2009 – October 29, 2009 | 37 | 6h 7m 29s | 5M |
| ' | December 1, 2009 – November 26, 2011 | 76 | 13h 5m 6s | 4.6M |
| Pokémon Crystal | March 13, 2010 – July 5, 2010 | 64 | 10h 17m 47s | 6.7M |
| Super Luigi Galaxy | August 6, 2010 – October 30, 2010 | 44 | 10h 45m 1s | 4.2M |
| Pikmin | August 22, 2010 – October 20, 2010 | 18 | 4h 33m 39s | 2.2M |
| Ōkami | December 14, 2010 – April 30, 2011 | 76 | 20h 10m 32s | 4.6M |
| Luigi's Mansion | May 29, 2011 – August 3, 2011 | 17 | 4h 5m 51s | 3.2M |
| Pikmin 2 | May 30, 2011 – September 4, 2011 | 50 | 13h 50m 51s | 6.8M |
| ' | September 30, 2011 – December 5, 2011 | 55 | 15h 42m 3s | 8.1M |
| Pokémon Emerald | January 5, 2012 – March 30, 2012 | 65 | 18h 27m 24s | 9.1M |
| Super Paper Mario | April 26, 2012 – July 15, 2012 | 61 | 16h 48m 6s | 9.1M |
| Ōkamiden | August 9, 2012 – November 5, 2012 | 70 | 20h 19m 39s | 2.2M |
| Kirby's Epic Yarn | November 30, 2012 – December 24, 2012 | 27 | 6h 57m 8s | 2.5M |
| Pokémon Colosseum | January 18, 2013 – April 5, 2013 | 45 | 13h 18m 32s | 4.8M |
| ' | April 21, 2013 – June 24, 2013 | 29 | 7h 16m 5s | 1.8M |
| Super Mario 64 DS | April 23, 2013 – August 2, 2013 | 38 | 10h 39m 29s | 5.2M |
| Kid Icarus Uprising | September 6, 2013 – October 30, 2013 | 30 | 11h 29s | 5.8M |
| Sonic Colors | September 7, 2013 – May 30, 2014 | 13 | 3h 51m 15s | 1.2M |
| ' | November 18, 2013 – November 18, 2014 − October 8, 2017 – November 18, 2017 | 96 | 1d 13h 6m 43s | 8.5M |
| ' | February 8, 2014 – April 18, 2014 | 45 | 15h 12m 40s | 5M |
| Xenoblade Chronicles | June 14, 2014 – February 24, 2015 − April 7, 2015 – June 3, 2015 | 119 | 1d 22h 23m 17s | 12M |
| ' | June 15, 2015 – August 21, 2015 | 41 | 13h 43m 58s | 4.1M |
| Pikmin 3 | September 26, 2015 – November 25, 2015 | 37 | 8h 53m 5s | 3.6M |
| Pokémon Platinum | December 19, 2015 – June 14, 2016 | 83 | 1d 9h 58m 18s | 9.9M |
| ' | July 20, 2016 – September 12, 2016 | 36 | 13h 18m 15s | 2.7M |
| Splatoon | October 22, 2016 – December 24, 2016 | 40 | 21h 3m 10s | 1.6M |
| ' | February 4, 2017 – May 17, 2017 | 75 | 1d 5h 49m 46s | 3.7M |
| ' | July 6, 2017 – August 28, 2017 | 41 | 15h 15m 32s | 1.6M |
| Pokémon Black and White | December 9, 2017 – June 21, 2018 | 83 | 1d 11h 50m 3s | 4.3M |
| EarthBound | July 16, 2018 – October 27, 2018 | 61 | 1d 1h 7m 3s | 2.3M |
| Yoshi's Woolly World | November 25, 2018 – January 16, 2019 | 39 | 14h 14m 47s | 632K |
| ' | February 6, 2019 – April 23, 2019 | 44 | 16h 30m 44s | 835K |
| Chrono Trigger | June 8, 2019 – September 21, 2019 | 68 | 15h 30m | 1M |
| Super Mario Galaxy 2 | October 25, 2019 – December 18, 2019 | 48 | 17h 2m 4s | 1M |
| ' | February 5, 2020 – April 10, 2020 | 26 | 10h 56m 19s | 264K |
| Super Mario Land | April 1, 2020 – April 2, 2020 | 2 | 42m 57s | 20K |
| ' | May 14, 2020 – July 31, 2020 | 46 | 21h 47m 57s | 317K |