Wario Ware (series)

WarioWare  is a series of games featuring the Nintendo character Wario. The franchise was created in 2003 with the release of Mega Microgame$! for the Game Boy Advance. While the first two games were developed by Nintendo R&D1, subsequent games have been co-developed by Intelligent Systems.

List of Games

 * WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! - Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube (2003)
 * WarioWare: Twisted! - Game Boy Advance (2004)
 * WarioWare: Touched! - Nintendo DS (2004)
 * WarioWare: Smooth Moves - Wii (2006)
 * WarioWare: Snapped! - DSiWare (2009)
 * WarioWare D.I.Y. - Nintendo DS, WiiWare
 * Game & Wario - Wii U (2013)

Gameplay
Each Wario game features unique gameplay types such as; "Hectic", "Rotation", "Touch", "Motion Play", "Camera", and "Game creation".

Microgames

 * Bird & Beans
 * Paper Airplane Chase

Trivia

 * The original Japanese title of the series was  Made in Wario, but outside Japan it's  WarioWare.
 * Pyoro, which was the inspiration in story for Wario starting up his own company, was a mini game in every single game in the WarioWare series, and then ended up published standalone by Nintendo for DSiWare under the name  Bird & Beans . Paper Plane (retitled  Paper Airplane Chase ) is possibly the same way.
 * The original  WarioWare  was based on the microgames present in the 64DD game  Mario Artist: Polygon Studio ; some of the microgames in  Polygon Studio  even received straight ports in  WarioWare !
 * Game & Wario  was not originally meant to be part of the series, as explained in its promotional  Iwata Asks  interview. It was first designed as several generic tech demos pre-installed on the Wii U before being retooled as a new IP featuring expended version of said tech demos. Difficulties linking the minigames together in a coherent storyline lead to the development team scrapping the original framing device and use the  WarioWare  characters.
 * The main cast of  Warioware  is often called The Warioware Crew by some fans.
 * It seems the commercial failure of  Game & Wario  has pretty much put the series on ice, with cameos from the characters being the only thing out of the series since. This, combined with the poor sales of  Wario Land: Shake It!  a few years earlier, has left Wario without a dedicated series of his own for the time being.
 * Twisted!  never reached European shores. The reason for this was never explained, but it certainly wasn't to do with the illegality of mercury tilt switches in the EU —  Twisted!  uses a piezoelectric gyroscope instead. Fortunately, the GBA is region free, so anyone in the region who knows English can play the game via importing. And as a result, the Mona Pizza song is unobtainable for European players as well (until  Brawl  for the song, but it was remixed), because to hear it you need to either play  Twisted, or at least have a game cart to use alongside  Touched!  via the GBA slot in the DS console.
 * Twisted!  was released after  Touched!  in North America (which is even weirder because  Twisted  was supposed to be 18-Volt's intended debut in the series, which presents a bigger problem since  Twisted  was in Development Hell until June, and 18-Volt had one repeated line), and not at all in Europe.
 * Ashley's song in rewind supposedly states she has taken kids to Hell. In reality, this was just a Mondegreen of the snippets of the song skipping backwards.
 * It's commonly said that Ashley is a little kid in Japan but a teen internationally. That's not true. Her age is ambiguous in Japan.
 * As mentioned,  Game & Wario  was not originally a  Warioware  game.