And you can say that my hair's a disgrace
Time for some pointless trivia again. This time, I'll be covering everyone's... "favourite" anti-Mario, Wario.
Wario's name isn't just Mario's name with the M turned upside down. It actually comes from a combination of "Mario" and the Japanese word "warui", meaning "bad" or "mean".
Wario doesn't just steal stuff in his own games, he's also stolen the main character spot from another game. The game Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! was released in Japan as a straight-up Bomberman game titled Bomberman GB, with no Wario anywhere in sight. Wario was added for the western release and given top billing in the title. The sequel, Bomberman GB 2, was released unaltered in the west, but retitled simply Bomberman GB.
In the English version of Wario Land II, there's a penguin enemy that throws bowling balls at Wario. If Wario gets hit by a bowling ball, he turns red in the face, becomes dizzy (with reversed controls), burps, and needs to splash himself with water to go back to normal. These reactions make a lot more sense in the original Japanese version, Wario Land 2: Nusumareta Zaihō, where the penguin enemies throw glasses full of beer instead.
The Pikmin microgame in WarioWare: D.I.Y. is exclusive to the non-Japanese versions of the game. In the Japanese version, Made in Ore, the microgame is themed around a Japanese game called Nazo no Murasame Jō, which had not been localised at the time of the game's release. It was later released on the Virtual Console in English-speaking countries in 2014 under the English title The Mysterious Murasame Castle.
In the Japanese version of Wario World, the final boss, Black Jewel, has a second phase with new music, in which it floats down into the arena and Wario must attack it until it becomes dizzy, then perform a Mad Move on it. This phase was removed from the international versions for unknown reasons.
In the same game, whenever you pause the game, Wario will mockingly sing at you over and over again on the pause screen. If you somehow endure his singing for 50 minutes, he will stop and apologise to you.
Wario's Woods (Wario no Mori in Japan) was the last game to be released on the NES in North America. Because of this, it was also the only NES game to receive an ESRB rating, being rated K-A (Kids to Adults) (this rating was renamed E (Everyone) in 1998).
There's a common rumour that Ashley from the WarioWare series (known as Made in Wario in Japan) is said to be eight years old in the Japanese version, but 15 years old internationally. Actually, in Japan her age is never stated. It's also rumoured that if you speed up her theme, you can hear the line "I have granted kids to hell", but this is most likely just random syllables combined with people's tendency to hear words where there are none, especially in songs.
In the Japanese version of the aforementioned theme, the spell Ashley chants in the song goes "Nawa buna nū zio ira un io di em". Reading it backwards, it spells "Me id oi nu ari oiz ūn anub awan", and changing the spacing slightly gives "Meido in uario izū nanuba wan", wasei-eigo for "Made in Wario is number one".
Wario's name isn't just Mario's name with the M turned upside down. It actually comes from a combination of "Mario" and the Japanese word "warui", meaning "bad" or "mean".
Wario doesn't just steal stuff in his own games, he's also stolen the main character spot from another game. The game Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! was released in Japan as a straight-up Bomberman game titled Bomberman GB, with no Wario anywhere in sight. Wario was added for the western release and given top billing in the title. The sequel, Bomberman GB 2, was released unaltered in the west, but retitled simply Bomberman GB.
In the English version of Wario Land II, there's a penguin enemy that throws bowling balls at Wario. If Wario gets hit by a bowling ball, he turns red in the face, becomes dizzy (with reversed controls), burps, and needs to splash himself with water to go back to normal. These reactions make a lot more sense in the original Japanese version, Wario Land 2: Nusumareta Zaihō, where the penguin enemies throw glasses full of beer instead.
The Pikmin microgame in WarioWare: D.I.Y. is exclusive to the non-Japanese versions of the game. In the Japanese version, Made in Ore, the microgame is themed around a Japanese game called Nazo no Murasame Jō, which had not been localised at the time of the game's release. It was later released on the Virtual Console in English-speaking countries in 2014 under the English title The Mysterious Murasame Castle.
In the Japanese version of Wario World, the final boss, Black Jewel, has a second phase with new music, in which it floats down into the arena and Wario must attack it until it becomes dizzy, then perform a Mad Move on it. This phase was removed from the international versions for unknown reasons.
In the same game, whenever you pause the game, Wario will mockingly sing at you over and over again on the pause screen. If you somehow endure his singing for 50 minutes, he will stop and apologise to you.
Wario's Woods (Wario no Mori in Japan) was the last game to be released on the NES in North America. Because of this, it was also the only NES game to receive an ESRB rating, being rated K-A (Kids to Adults) (this rating was renamed E (Everyone) in 1998).
There's a common rumour that Ashley from the WarioWare series (known as Made in Wario in Japan) is said to be eight years old in the Japanese version, but 15 years old internationally. Actually, in Japan her age is never stated. It's also rumoured that if you speed up her theme, you can hear the line "I have granted kids to hell", but this is most likely just random syllables combined with people's tendency to hear words where there are none, especially in songs.
In the Japanese version of the aforementioned theme, the spell Ashley chants in the song goes "Nawa buna nū zio ira un io di em". Reading it backwards, it spells "Me id oi nu ari oiz ūn anub awan", and changing the spacing slightly gives "Meido in uario izū nanuba wan", wasei-eigo for "Made in Wario is number one".
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