Sundry Sunday: Taunts From Wario World’s Pause Screen

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

Most of the things we present here at Sundry Sunday are things from gaming fandom, but this one is from an actual game, Treasure’s Wario World.

Wario World might not actually be that great a game, but it is true that it’s full of character. Wario runs around to kicking music, taking out enemies with wrestling moves, literally inhaling coins around him, and then you press the start button to pause and you hear THIS (warning: it’s one very repetitive hour long, so stop listening before Wario drives you bonkers):

Nyaah nah nah NYAAAH NYAH! That must have been a fun recording session with Charles Martinet.

An interesting fact about Wario World’s pause screen is, if you sit and wait long enough, something happens. Here it is cued up to before the spot, at around 50:25 in. Listen to it for about 20 seconds to hear a very uncharacteristic statement from Wario….

Sundry Sunday: Mario & Luigi’s Vacation Videos

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

A few years ago, former long-time voice of Mario, Luigi and Wario, and current Nintendo “brand ambassador,” Charles Martinet posted some amusing videos on Instagram, of him playing around with some figures of the plumbers and improvising their voices during his vacation in Chile. At the time I found them charming! I don’t know about others? The posts have been preserved here (10 minutes), but they aren’t the point of this post.

SuperStaticPro made some Source Filmmaker animations that repurposed the audio into little vignettes. I also like them, and they are the point of this post.

The first (1 minute):

And the second (also 1 minute), and also containing possibly my favorite Wario interaction of all: