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:

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

I’m a little late on this one, I was watching the end of SGDQ late last night. This week’s video is from deep i the files, a fan animation by Mario Ramirez of Wario stealing a statue from Bowser Jr. and Kamek. It’s pretty simple and disjointed, but watchable. It’s around 6 minutes long.

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But anyway. Said image is a list of obscure, but apparently canonical, facts about everyone’s favorite money-grubbing antiplumber, Wario. Narrator Mish Koz goes through each fact and tries to determine from whence it came. Many of them are sourced from an old Nintendo website. They’re entertaining at least, for 17 minutes. Here is the video:

The facts are:

• He has a bee allergy
• He likes wrestling & country music
• His favorite foods
• He can bench press 200 kg
• Dr Crygor uses him as a guinea pig for his experiments
• He goes treasure hunting with Mona
• He gave 9-Volt a GBA
• The reason for his immortality is he doesn’t feel like dying
• Things Wario hates: smart things, jerks that are stingy with their money, chocolate with peanuts, marron glacés, peppers and jigsaw puzzles
• Wario’s spending habits: he spends most of it on food
• He ate 100 Poison Mushrooms and red and white spots appeared over his body
• He washes his clothes every 10 days
• The source of his powers: garlic
• He has a farming background, although no one seems to actually know the source for this fact

Investigating the Wario Greentext (Youtube, 17 minutes)

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

nathorz on Youtube made this great little video that put animation to an assortment of Wario voice lines. It’s just great!

It’s great, and it’s here (1 minute):

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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)

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Here’s the original WarioWare’s intro to compare its sound to. It’s all the good stuff!

geno7 over on Youtube (who has a terrific home page, by the way!) did a 51-minute deep dive into WL4’s sound design that’s just the kind of obsessive attention to detail that our cadre of pixel art loonies appreciate! Have a gawk and a listen and see if you agree.

The Bizarre Music and Sound Design of Wario Land 4 (Youtube, 51 minutes)

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