{"id":1238,"date":"2015-03-09T13:59:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2015-03-09T13:59:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T13:59:12","slug":"6-sinister-wario-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/09\/6-sinister-wario-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Sinister Wario Facts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are investigating everyone\u2019s favourite Garlic eating Mushroom Kingdom villain, Wario! Since his humble inception, this anti-hero has spawned 2 of his own successful game series and has made cameo appearances in at least 50 other games! The moral of this story? Greed is good. Or at least gets you in Nintendo games. So hold onto your coins and Join me if you will as we delve into 6 facts about the mischievous Wario!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wario_magician.png\" alt=\"Wario magician\" width=\"472\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wario_magician.png 700w, https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wario_magician-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wario_magician-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Number 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of WarioWare\u2019s intense micro games are actually re-used from another game! Mario Artist: Polygon Studio was released in Japan only in 2000 for the failed Nintendo 64DD, this weird Mario Paint like game allows players to create 3D polygons and then texture and paint them. It also featured a \u201cSound Bomber\u201d mode which contained these original Microgames, later to be used in the WarioWare series!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qWowRr-a4Tc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Number 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wario\u2019s official debut wasn\u2019t until 1992. For the sake of filling you in, he is a short retelling of The Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden coins story line from the instruction manual:<\/p>\n<p><strong>DANGER! DANGER!<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile I was away crusading against<br \/>\nthe mystery alien Tatanga in Sarasa<br \/>\nLand, an evil creep took over my<br \/>\ncastle and put the people of Mario<br \/>\nLand under his control with a magic<br \/>\nspell. The intruder goes by the name<br \/>\nof Wario. He has been jealous of my<br \/>\npopularity ever since we were boys,<br \/>\nand has tried to steal my castle<br \/>\nmany times. It seems he has<br \/>\nsucceeded this time.<br \/>\nWario has scattered the 6 Golden<br \/>\nCoins from my castle all over<br \/>\nMario Land. These Golden Coins are guarded by those under Wario&#8217;s<br \/>\nspell. Without these coins, we can&#8217;t get into the castle to deal with<br \/>\nWario. We must collect the 6 coins, attack Wario in the castle, and save<br \/>\neverybody!<br \/>\n<strong><em>IT&#8217;S TIME TO SET OUT ON OUR MISSION!!<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n?The 6 Golden Coins are the coins needed to open the<br \/>\ngate of Mario&#8217;s castle.<\/p>\n<p>This story reveals a few interesting bits, 1) Wario is a magician of some sort? 2) Mario and Wario apparently grew up together and 3) Was Mario just killing friendly Mario Land creatures that were under a spell? Yikes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people have speculated that the inspiration for Wario\u2019s character actually comes from the 1985 game Wrecking Crew. The classic game features a construction foreman named Spike who actually looks a little bit like Wario and the two even share the jerk trait and give Mario and Luigi a tough time. In fact, Foreman Spike is often thought of as the prototype for Wario and or Waluigi, much the same as Pauline from the original Donkey Kong was for Princess Peach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Foremanspike.jpg\" alt=\"Foreman spike\" width=\"180\" height=\"242\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1242\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/WCForemanSpikeSprite.png\" alt=\"WCForemanSpikeSprite\" width=\"67\" height=\"103\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Number 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the resemblance to Spike, Wario\u2019s design actually comes from the epic game artist Hiroji Kiyotake! Apart of Gunpei Yokoi&#8217;s R&amp;D1 team, this design team was rumoured to have grown frustrated working with someone else\u2019s character design after the first Super Mario Land game. Luckily for them their chance arose to create a new character of their own for Super Mario Land 2 and thus Wario was born! Some sources even claim that Wario\u2019s character \u201csymbolized R&amp;D1\u2019s situation\u201d within Nintendo, suggesting perhaps a little bit of a rivalry between development teams!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whilst Wario appeared as a baby in \u201cYoshi\u2019s Island DS\u201d and Mario Land 2\u2019s back story did hint at Mario and Wario hanging out as kids, Wario\u2019s origins in the Mario universe still haven\u2019t really been explained. Despite not really being acknowledged by Nintendo there are a few officially licensed comics that do attempt to explain how Wario came to be!<\/p>\n<p>The German comic \u201cSuper Mario: Die Verwandlung\u201d which translates to \u201cSuper Mario: The Transformation\u201d tells the story of Wario Merging from Mario after a Dr. Light tries to cure Mario of his Pixelation.<\/p>\n<p>The comic \u201cMario Vs. Wario\u201d shows the pair were again friends as youngsters, whilst playing as kids Wario is often left injured, humiliated or both. As a result Wario believes Mario is the cause of his bad luck.<\/p>\n<p>Another German comic titled \u201cWario\u2019s Weihnachtsm\u00e4rchen\u201d which translates to \u201cWario\u2019s Christmas Tale\u201d was a mock Christmas carol. The comic featured a flash back to Wario and Mario as Babies building sandcastles but due to Wario\u2019s ill nature, Mario was the favourite. The comic also goes on to show a graduation ball where Wario wants to dance with the princess however because Mario is much nicer so she dances with him instead. I guess nice guys don\u2019t always finish last!<\/p>\n<p>So what can we conclude about Wario\u2019s origins? Not much, it sounds like they were probably just Mushroom school buddies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most people just assume that Wario\u2019s name comes from simply turning the M in Mario\u2019s name upside down. This isn\u2019t the full story though! The Japanese adjective for bad is &#8220;warui&#8221;, when paired with Mario this literally translates to &#8220;bad Mario.&#8221; Since these two words already were quite similar the genius that is Hiroji Kiyotake, combined the two to produce Wario!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bad_mario.png\" alt=\"bad mario\" width=\"428\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bad_mario.png 600w, https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bad_mario-206x300.png 206w, https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bad_mario-300x438.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are investigating everyone\u2019s favourite Garlic eating Mushroom Kingdom villain, Wario! Since his humble inception, this anti-hero has spawned 2 of his own successful game series and has made cameo appearances in at least 50 other games! The moral of this story? Greed is good. Or at least gets you in Nintendo games. So hold onto your coins and Join me if you will as we delve into 6 facts about the mischievous Wario!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[247,182,258,259],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mario-lists","tag-super-mario-land-2","tag-wario","tag-warioware","tag-yoshis-island-ds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}