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** The first two games in the series are essentially the same game, except one is for handhelds and the other for home consoles.

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** Orbulon's space bunnies also appeared in [[RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven.]]

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** Orbulon's space bunnies also appeared in [[RhythmHeaven [[VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven.]]

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The series was made by the same team that made [[RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven]], [[WidgetSeries and it shows]].

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The series was made by the same team that made [[RhythmHeaven [[VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven]], [[WidgetSeries and it shows]].
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: In ''SmoothMoves'', if you've just played a microgame involving spinning the remote around, and thus twisted up the wrist strap, the next game will be one in which you have to drop the Wii Remote and leave it dangling by the strap, untwisting it.
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* In each 'level' you have to complete ten to twenty of them in a row, without stopping (And much more if you're going for a high score)! (JUMP!)

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* In each 'level' you have to complete ten nine to twenty twenty-five of them in a row, without stopping (And much more if you're going for a high score)! (JUMP!)
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* TheDevTeamThinksOvEverything: the European version of D.I.Y. translated ''everything'', including elements of the microgames themselves, as you can find out with the Microgame editor once you access it and use it to open the microgames. Elements such as "Mario" from 9-Volt's games keep their name as always, but elements such as clouds, cars or whatever get their names (and animations as well!) translated in every language the game is localised in.

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* TheDevTeamThinksOvEverything: TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: the European version of D.I.Y. translated ''everything'', including elements of the microgames themselves, as you can find out with the Microgame editor once you access it and use it to open the microgames. Elements such as "Mario" from 9-Volt's games keep their name as always, but elements such as clouds, cars or whatever get their names (and animations as well!) translated in every language the game is localised in.
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* TheDevTeamThinksOvEverything: the European version of D.I.Y. translated ''everything'', including elements of the microgames themselves, as you can find out with the Microgame editor once you access it and use it to open the microgames. Elements such as "Mario" from 9-Volt's games keep their name as always, but elements such as clouds, cars or whatever get their names (and animations as well!) translated in every language the game is localised in.
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** And as a result, sadly stopped the Mona Pizza song reaching European shores as well, because to hear it you need to either play VideoGame/WarioWare Twisted, or at least have a game cart to use alongside ''[=WarioWare=] Touched!'' via the GBA slot in the DS console.

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** And as a result, sadly stopped the Mona Pizza song reaching European shores as well, well(until [[SuperSmashBros Brawl]] for the song, but it was remixed.), because to hear it you need to either play VideoGame/WarioWare Twisted, or at least have a game cart to use alongside ''[=WarioWare=] Touched!'' via the GBA slot in the DS console.
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** In Wario's first stage of WarioWare: Twisted!, [[WarioLand the music box]] is visible on a shelf behind the watch.
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** The Kat and Ana stage in ''Smooth Moves'' has [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles a quartet of turtles]] representing the player's lives.
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** ''D.I.Y.'''s graphic editor is highly reminiscent of ''MarioPaint'', and its music editor has many samples from the same. Some of the microgames also make references to it in the form of the man doing sit-ups and one in ''Touched!'' where the objective is to color in a picture.
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The series was made by the same team that made [[RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven]], [[WidgetSeries and it shows]].


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** Orbulon's space bunnies also appeared in [[RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven.]]
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* NoExportForYou: ''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.

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* NoExportForYou: ''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.

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* HonestAxe: spoofed in "Touched!"
** "Gimme all of them!" * tackle*

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* HonestAxe: spoofed Spoofed in "Touched!"
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"Touched!" Wario's response? "Gimme all of them!" * tackle* *tackle*
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* ''[=WarioWare=], Inc.: Mega Microgame$!'' (''[=WarioWare=], Inc.: Minigame Mania'' [[MarketBasedTitle in PAL countries]]) (Game Boy Advance)

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* ''[=WarioWare=], Inc.: Mega Microgame$!'' (''[=WarioWare=], Inc.: Minigame Mania'' [[MarketBasedTitle in PAL countries]]) (Game Boy Advance)Advance) (given a limited rerelease in 2011 under the Nintendo3DS Ambassador Program)
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kat's is Pink, Ana's is bright red, and Jimmy's whole family has multi-colored hair/wigs.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kat's is Pink, Ana's is bright red, and Jimmy's whole family has multi-colored hair/wigs. Jimmy actually has blue hair, Papa T has Yellow, Mama T also has pink, Jamie has Pink/Indigo/Red(Depending on where you look), and James has orange. Jimmy P from ''Smooth Moves'' has Yellow hair as well.

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* FinalExamBoss: The last levels of the original and ''Touched!''

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* FinalExamBoss: The last levels of the original and ''Touched!''original.
** ''Touched'' is close. It has everything BUT the mic.
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* KaizoTrap: Even after defeating the...planet from Ashley's boss game in Touched, you can still be hit by a stray bullet.
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* EverythingsCuterWithKittens: Disco dancing kittens in ''Smooth Moves''! Later on, Jimmy P.'s stage has dancing ''puppies'', and the similarity is lampshaded at the end.

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* EverythingsCuterWithKittens: CuteKitten: Disco dancing kittens in ''Smooth Moves''! Later on, Jimmy P.'s stage has dancing ''puppies'', and the similarity is lampshaded at the end.
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* OneHitPointWonder: In every normal microgame you play in every installment, you only get ''one shot'' to clear the goal. Screw up in any way, and it's a fail.

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* OneHitPointWonder: In every normal microgame most microgames you play in every installment, you only get ''one shot'' to clear the goal. Screw up in any way, and it's a fail.

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* {{Otaku}}: 9-Volt and 18-Volt are hardcore fanboys of all things Nintendo

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* {{Otaku}}: 9-Volt and 18-Volt are hardcore fanboys of all things NintendoNintendo.
* OutOfFocus: Dribble, Spitz, and Orbulon took the backseat in ''Touched'' as mere [[TheCameo cameo appearances]]. They have since taken the spotlight back, but now Mike has suffered this and is currently PutOnABus.
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* OneHitPointWonder: In every normal microgame you play in every installment, you only get ''one shot'' to clear the goal. Screw up in any way, and it's a fail.
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* GameBreakingBug: On level three of the needle-threading game in the original, a design oversight sometimes puts the eye of the needle out of the thread's reach, making it impossible to win. A real buzzkill when you're racking up a high score on the [[OneHitPointWonder Thrilling tower]] and this glitch takes you out.
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* LostForever: A few of the medals in ''D.I.Y.'' require entering microgame design contests that were periodically held by Nintendo. Nintendo no longer holds these contests, so if you hadn't already gotten the medals for them you can now no longer obtain them. Thankfully, it's still possible to get all the records even without these medals.
** The same, of course, goes for the microgames that won those contests. Even while they were running, you could only access the two most recent contest sets at a time to download their microgames. Now, you can't get any of them, unless you can get them from other players.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The original Japanese title of the series was ''Made in Wario'' but outside Japan it's ''[=WarioWare=]''.


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* MarketBasedTitle: The first game had the subtitle ''Mega Microgame$!'' in North America and ''Minigame Mania'' in Europe.
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* [=WarioWare=], Inc.: Mega Micro Game$! (Game Boy Advance)
* [=WarioWare=], Inc.: Mega Party Game$ (a Nintendo [=GameCube=] extension of the above game with multiplayer games thrown in)
* [=WarioWare=]: Twisted! (GBA, a cartridge equipped with a Motion Sensor)
* [=WarioWare=]: Touched! (Nintendo DS, with the games themed around various uses of the touch screen)
* [=WarioWare=]: Smooth Moves! (Wii- the games are themed around holding the Wii Remote in a variety of ways to control the game)
* [=WarioWare=]: Snapped! ([=DSiWare=], uses the Nintendo [=DSi=]'s camera to take pictures)
* [=WarioWare=]: D.I.Y. (DS; this entry allows you to create your own microgames.)
* [=WarioWare=]: D.I.Y. Showcase ([=WiiWare=], a companion game for the above)

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* [=WarioWare=], ''[=WarioWare=], Inc.: Mega Micro Game$! Microgame$!'' (''[=WarioWare=], Inc.: Minigame Mania'' [[MarketBasedTitle in PAL countries]]) (Game Boy Advance)
* [=WarioWare=], ''[=WarioWare=], Inc.: Mega Party Game$ Game$!'' (a Nintendo [=GameCube=] extension of the above game with multiplayer games thrown in)
* [=WarioWare=]: Twisted! ''[=WarioWare=]: Twisted!'' (GBA, a cartridge equipped with a Motion Sensor)
* [=WarioWare=]: Touched! ''[=WarioWare=]: Touched!'' (Nintendo DS, with the games themed around various uses of the touch screen)
* [=WarioWare=]: ''[=WarioWare=]: Smooth Moves! (Wii- Moves'' (Wii -- the games are themed around holding the Wii Remote in a variety of ways to control the game)
* [=WarioWare=]: Snapped! ''[=WarioWare=]: Snapped!'' ([=DSiWare=], uses the Nintendo [=DSi=]'s camera to take pictures)
* [=WarioWare=]: ''[=WarioWare=]: D.I.Y. '' (DS; this entry allows you to create your own microgames.)
* [=WarioWare=]: ''[=WarioWare=]: D.I.Y. '' Showcase ([=WiiWare=], a companion game for the above)



* {{Defictionalization}}: Arguably Pyoro, which was the inspiration in story for Wario starting up his own company, was a mini game in every single game in the VideoGame/WarioWare series, and then ended up published standalone by Nintendo for DSiWare. Paper Plane is possibly the same way.

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



* {{Homage}}: 9-Volt's and 18-Volt's microgames and worlds are shout-outs to various classic NES games such as ''SuperMarioBros'', ''TheLegendOfZelda'' and ''{{F-Zero}}''

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* {{Homage}}: 9-Volt's and 18-Volt's microgames and worlds are shout-outs to various classic NES and SNES games such as ''SuperMarioBros'', ''TheLegendOfZelda'' and ''{{F-Zero}}''



* NoExportForYou: ''Twisted'' never reached European shores. The reason for this was never exaplained, but it certainly wasn't to do with the illegality of mercury tilt switches in the EU - ''Twisted'' uses a piezoelectric gyroscope instead.
** And as a result, sadly stopped the Mona Pizza song reaching European shores as well, because to hear it you need to either play VideoGame/WarioWare Twisted, or at least have a game cart to use alongside VideoGame/WarioWare Touched via the GBA slot in the DS console.

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* NoExportForYou: ''Twisted'' ''Twisted!'' never reached European shores. The reason for this was never exaplained, explained, but it certainly wasn't to do with the illegality of mercury tilt switches in the EU - ''Twisted'' -- ''Twisted!'' uses a piezoelectric gyroscope instead.
** And as a result, sadly stopped the Mona Pizza song reaching European shores as well, because to hear it you need to either play VideoGame/WarioWare Twisted, or at least have a game cart to use alongside VideoGame/WarioWare Touched ''[=WarioWare=] Touched!'' via the GBA slot in the DS console.



* SequelFirst: ''Twisted!'' was released after ''Touched!'' in America.

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* SequelFirst: ''Twisted!'' was released after ''Touched!'' in America.North America, and [[NoExportForYou not at all]] in Europe.
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... as I was going to say before accidentally pressing the \"Enter\" key, Tiny Wario IS Nightmare Fuel. Not to mention that form\'s japanese name is Chibi Wario, as well.
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Relatively acceptable breaking of the Repair Dont Respond rule, as the first statement is also acceptable - that is, chibi Wario ia

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** [[DidNotDoTheResearch Except]] it's actually a ShoutOut to [[http://www.mariowiki.com/Tiny_Wario Tiny Wario,]] Wario's weakest form in WarioLand. It was a tongue-in-cheek SelfParody by Nintendo, as it mirrored [[http://www.mariowiki.com/Small_Mario Small Mario.]]
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* GenreBusting: The series can be loosely considered mini-game collections, but it does it in such an unusual way (games are typically about 4 seconds long, must be done in quick succession, are presented in random order, and the goal is to survive a predetermined number of them before failing four times), and has an emphasis on single-player rather than multiplayer, that gamers and critics alike have largely given up trying to classify it at all.

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* PredatoryBusiness: Pizza Dinosaur



* VoldeMart: Pizza Dinosaur

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