Sundry Sunday is when we present gaming culture finds from across the years and decades. We’ve changed things up a little for the season!
A Christmas Warol, from GabaLeth, is an entertaining remix of A Christmas Carol, starting Nintendo’s charmingly notorious money-grubbing libertarian.
It’s interesting to muse on how Wario has escaped popular condemnation for his capitalist ways, or at least aspirations? I think it’s partly because he’s an object of fun and not presented as a positive figure, the wa of warui, Japanese for bad, is right in his name. He’s also rarely successful, and sometimes implied (very vaguely) to have a good heart under there somewhere.
Anyway, here’s Wario as Ebenezer Scrooge. There’s four installments so far, and they’re all surprising short (although it never was a very long story); presumably there’ll be a fifth by the time you see this.
Episode 1 (3 minutes):
Episode 2 (2 1/2 minutes, with Wagooigi):
Episode 3 (1 1/2 minutes):
Episode 4 (1 1/2 minutes):
A Christmas Warol, Episode 1 – Episode 2 – Episode 3 – Episode 4 (Youtube)
