History Trivia / WarioWare

** PC: ''Bizarrioware'' (''[=WarioWare=]'' with a pot smoker and vaporwave aesthetic), ''VideoGame/{{Spookware}}'' (''[=WarioWare=]'' with a more gory and horror-themed aesthetic) ''Portaboy'' (which is a horror themed ShootEmUp hybrid).

** PC: ''Bizarrioware'' (''[=WarioWare=]'' with a pot smoker and vaporwave aesthetic), ''VideoGame/Spookware}}'' (''[=WarioWare=]'' with a more gory and horror-themed aesthetic) ''Portaboy'' (which is a horror themed ShootEmUp hybrid).

** PC: ''Bizarrioware'' (''[=WarioWare=]'' with a pot smoker and vaporwave aesthetic), ''Spookware'' (''[=WarioWare=]'' with a more gory and horror-themed aesthetic) ''Portaboy'' (which is a horror themed ShootEmUp hybrid).

* {{Defictionalization}}: Pyoro, which was the inspiration in story for Wario starting up his own company, was a mini game in every single game in the series, and then ended up published standalone by Nintendo for UsefulNotes/DSiWare under the name ''Bird & Beans''. Paper Plane (retitled ''Paper Airplane Chase'') is possibly the same way.

* DolledUpInstallment: ''Game & Wario'' was not originally meant to be part of the series, as explained in its promotional ''Iwata Asks'' [[https://www.nintendo.co.za/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-Game-Wario/Game-Wario/1-Shake-Things-Up-/1-Shake-Things-Up--749777.html interview]]. It was first designed as several generic [[TechDemoGame tech demos]] that would be pre-installed on the UsefulNotes/WiiU, in a similar vein to the AR games and ''VideoGame/FaceRaiders'' on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, before it was attempted to be retool them into a new IP featuring expanded versions of said tech demos. Difficulties linking the minigames together in a coherent storyline led to the development team to scrap the original framing device and use the ''[=WarioWare=]'' characters instead.

** UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance: ''[[Series/LizzieMcGuire Lizzie McGuire 3: Homecoming Havoc]]''
** UsefulNotes/DSiWare: ''VideoGame/{{Kuukiyomi}}''
** UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable: ''VideoGame/WorkTimeFun''
** UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade: ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' (Notably, this one directly lifts the "microgame" term)
** UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} & UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS: ''[[VideoGame/SpongeBobSquigglePants SpongeBob SquigglePants]]''
** UsefulNotes/PSVita: ''Frobisher Says!''

** ''Twisted'' never saw a release on the UsefulNotes/WiiU's Virtual Console, likely due to the difficulty in emulating its motion controls (''Twisted'' used a gyroscope within the cartridge, while the Wii U's [=GamePad=] has a built-in gyroscope that isn't inherently compatible with the game). ''D.I.Y.'' also never got a digital rerelease, as its wireless sharing functions wouldn't have worked on an emulator.

** ''Gold'''s split screen mode was [[https://kotaku.com/the-unusual-effort-that-went-into-creating-warioware-go-1829840289 originally planned]] as far back as ''Touched!'', but it ended up getting scrapped then due to the mode being too taxing on the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS' hardware.

** UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} & UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS: ''[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob SquigglePants]]''

** After Charles Martinet stepped away from doing character voices for the franchise, [[https://nintendoeverything.com/yes-kevin-afghani-seems-to-be-the-new-wario-voice-actor/ Kevin Afghani took over his roles]], beginning to voice Wario starting with ''[=WarioWare=]: Move It!''.

* AscendedFanon: In ''[[VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven Fever]]'', one of the two player rhythm games had you and another player kick a ball back and fourth between each other as a kung fu boy and girl; however, due to the boy's [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rhythmheaven/images/d/d8/Kung_Fu_Ball.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20151212162006 similarities to Young Cricket,]] several fans have theorized that the boy might actually be the latter, which his ''Gold'' character trailer ended up going along with entirely.

* AcclaimedFlop:
** Though ''D.I.Y.'' received very good reviews and acquired a solid cult following among aspiring game designers, it was a commercial failure: in its native Japan, its sales were the lowest the series saw up to that point by a significant margin and it did even worse in western countries[[labelnote:How poorly?]]Figures from the NPD sales tracking organization had ''D.I.Y'' selling 100k in the United States by July 2011, after a March 2010 launch. ''Smooth Moves'' sold more than double that in its opening month[[/labelnote]], becoming a perennial bargain-bin filler. This is usually blamed on it being an AudienceAlienatingPremise, as the complexity of the editor and low-quality prebuilt games made it difficult for it to appeal to the series' usual audience.
** ''Gold'' got some of the best reviews of the series from both fans and critics alike, but sold modestly at only 138,024 copies, due to it being released in the dying days of the [=3DS's=] lifecycle -- in fact, it was the last Nintendo-developed game released on the platform, though they subsequently published a few {{Updated Rerelease}}s developed by outside studios -- after most gamers had moved onto the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. That said, it did do better than a lot of 3DS games released in 2018 (in fact, it was the best-selling new 3DS game that year according to sales tracker [[https://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/862/1862230/ Dengeki Online]]) and it did well enough for Nintendo that ''Get It Together!'' would be greenlit not too long after (which, according to Goro Abe, was dependent on the sales of ''Gold'').

%% PRELIMARY WRITE-UP, DO NOT ADD UNTIL VOICE CAST OFFICIALLY REVEALED ** When it was revealed Charles Martinet was stepping away from doing character voices for the franchise, [[https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/64628/charles-martinet-stepping-away-from-voice-of-mario-becoming-mario-ambassador-updated it was also confirmed that Wario was replaced]] starting with ''[=WarioWare=]: Move It!''.

* PromotedFanboy: In ''Gold'', dialing the code "BAAI" in one of the phones in the Toy room will lead to a message where an unspecified developer talks about how he used to play the original ''[=WarioWare=]'' as a child and is very happy to have worked on the game.

* GodNeverSaidThat: Early translations of Dribble's diary entries from the Japanese ''Mega Microgame$'' site has him mention that he was attending his daughter's wedding with his parents crying, which shocked many fans since it effectively revealed Dribble's family, who had never been brought up. However, as it turns out, this would be revealed to be a mistranslation stemming from his [[LostInTranslation hard to translate speech dialect]]. With the correct translations being that the parents crying at the wedding were the brides parents with Dribble commenting on ''them'' raising her at the end of the entry, not himself. Officially, Dribble has no known family members.

* TheOtherDarrin:
** ''Gold'' recasts every characters except Wario, who retains Charles Martinet as his voice actor. This is mainly because the game having full voice acting over short sound clips required having professional voice actors (primarily reputable anime dub voices such as Kyle Hebert and Stephanie Sheh) rather than the usual voice work by Nintendo of America's Treehouse members.
** Almost the entirety of the Latin American Spanish cast from ''Gold'' came back in ''Get It Together!'', with the exceptions of Gerardo Alonso (Wario), Alan Prieto (Mike and Fronk), and Leyla Rangel (Lulu) being replaced by Óscar Flores (Wario), Alan Bravo (Mike and Fronk), and Nycolle González (Lulu) in this game.

*** Francesco Rizzi voices Wario and Dribble.

*** Paolo De Santis voices 18-Volt, Young Cricket, Mike, Ben, Ninja Steve and Danny (the Gigantaburger clerk in Orbulon's stage).
*** Giorgio Bonino voices Dr. Crygor, Fronk and Gahrumble (the helpless monster from Ashley's stage).

*** Deborah Morese voices Kat, Ana, Ashley and 13-Amp.

** Web Browser: ''[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Phineas and Ferb: Replay Rush]]'' (This one's a bit unique as all the minigames are directly based on previous flash games from the Creator/DisneyChannel website) ''{{WesternAnimation/Mad}}:What me worry?'' follows the trend of Cartoon Network games imitating more popular video games.

** ''[=WarioWare=]: Move It!''[='s=] Japanese title is ''Super Dancing Made in Wario'', making Japan the only country where the game is presented as a sequel to ''Smooth Moves''.

* GodNeverSaidThat: While Dribble's diary entries from the Japanese ''Mega Microgame$'' site does mention him attending a daughter's wedding, it never stated the married daughter was ''his'' specifically or that ''his'' parents were crying. Both of which are the result of a mistranslation stemming from his hard to translate speech dialect. With the correct translations being that the parents crying at the wedding were the brides parents with Dribble commenting on ''them'' raising her at the end of the entry, not himself. Officially, Dribble has no known family members.
* IKnewIt:
** Given the series' close relationship with ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'' and the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS is capable of doing most of the series' previous control gimmicks, many fans have predicted that the 3DS [=WarioWare=] game would be a compilation game in the same vein as ''Rhythm Heaven Megamix'' before ''Gold'' was revealed to be just that.
** Two weeks prior to E3 2021, [[https://mynintendonews.com/2021/06/03/nintendo-is-asking-people-how-much-theyd-spend-on-the-next-warioware-game-in-latest-survey/ Nintendo emailed My Nintendo members a poll]] asking how much money they'd be willing to spend on a new ''[=WarioWare=]'' game. Due to the timeframe the poll was sent out and the oddly blunt and specific question, everyone who heard about it came to the conclusion that ''[=WarioWare=]'' would be getting a new title for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch revealed at the event. They were right, as ''[=WarioWare=]: Get It Together!'' was announced during Nintendo's E3 Direct.
** [[spoiler:Penny]] being the one main cast member to be conspicuously excluded from ''Get It Together'''s marketing lead some to speculate they would have an important role in the storyline or be an unlockable character. The release of the game would prove these guesses right.
** Some have predicted that the full voice acting in ''Gold'' would be a one-time ordeal as a way to better distinguish ''Gold'' from the other games (given its nature as a CompilationRerelease). Come ''Get It Together!'' and these fans would ultimately be correct, as ''Get It Together!'' goes right back to the franchise's usual VoiceGrunting (albeit with the cast's voices from ''Gold'').

** By digging through ''Gold'''s files, fans have mananged to find an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw7VgJFYnQc early, imcomplete version]] of Penny's cutscenes that contains a number of differences from the final cutscenes.

** When using the Turntable Souvenir in ''Touched'', Ashley's song on fast forward supposedly states "I have granted kids to Hell". In reality, this is just a mishearing resulting from the souvenir's fast forward function not actually speeding up Ashley's verses, but instead skipping large chunks of it.

** Some have predicted that the full voice acting in ''Gold'' would be a one-time ordeal as a way to better distinguish ''Gold'' from the other games (given its nature as a CompilationRerelease). Come ''Get It Together!'' and these fans would ultimately be correct, as ''Get It Together!'' goes right back to the franchise's usual VoiceGrunting.

* RefittedForSequel: ''Gold'''s split screen challenge mode was originally intended for ''Touched!'', but was cut out due to the DS' hardware limitations.

** ''Gold'' got some of the best reviews of the series from both fans and critics alike, but sold modestly, due to it being released in the dying days of the [=3DS's=] lifecycle -- in fact, it was the last Nintendo-developed game released on the platform, though they subsequently published a few {{Updated Rerelease}}s developed by outside studios -- after most gamers had moved onto the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. That said, it did do better than a lot of 3DS games released that year and it did well enough for Nintendo that ''Get It Together!'' would be greenlit not too long after (which, according to Goro Abe, was dependent on the sales of ''Gold'').

** ''Gold'' got some of the best reviews of the series from both fans and critics alike, but sold modestly, due to it being released in the dying days of the [=3DS's=] lifecycle -- in fact, it was the last Nintendo-developed game released on the platform, though they subsequently published a few {{Updated Rerelease}}s developed by outside studios -- after most gamers had moved onto the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.