History YMMV / WarioWare

** For only appearing in a few of the games, Ashley is very popular among fans, especially with her creepy demeanor, haunted house motifs, and her creepy game over screens.

* SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer: Despite being a game already composed of minigames, some of the side things you can unlock can easily sway you away from the arguably main task of completing all the microgame gauntlets.
** The first game has "Dr. Wario." Given that it basically ''is'' VideoGame/DrMario, its addictive properties should come as no surprise.
** It's also no surprise that Pyoro was such a huge hit InUniverse, given that it's a pretty distracting minigame.

* OlderThanTheyThink: [=WarioWare=] had its first incarnation (sans Wario) as part of a mini game in ''Mario Artist: Polygon Studio'' for the ill fated 64DD. Watch a clip of it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FoB3n1kxrY here]].

* {{Woolseyism}}: The techniques in ''Smooth Moves'' have completely different names (and meanings) in Japanese and English, and they all make sense in the English translation. ('Tengu' becomes 'Elephant', 'Mawaryanse' [[note]]A sort of festival dance[[/note]] to 'Chauffer', etc.)

* EarWorm: "You better learn my name 'cause I am Ashley!"

* EnsembleDarkhorse: For only appearing in a few of the games, Ashley is very popular among fans, especially with her creepy demeanor, haunted house motifs, and her creepy game over screens.

* ScrappyMechanic: The objective of Listen to the Doctor from ''Mega Party Games''. You're instructed to physically do something stupid OUTSIDE of the game, and there's nothing stopping the other players from refusing to applaud you and thus denying you any points. There's a reason that very few multiplayer video games are reliant on the honor system.

* ThatOneBoss: ''Twisted'''s "Wario De Mambo", Good luck trying to do it on Hard, as there's many moves you have to repeat. Miss one, and it's all over.

* UncannyValley: Some people in certain microgames in ''Smooth Moves'' due to crude 3D graphics.
** Especially the girl in the "Take a Headshot!" minigame.

** WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog has a character named Penny, who sings, has red hair, and a mad scientist is in love with her. WarioWare has a character named Penny who is a redhead, a mad scientist herself, and harbors a secret fondness for singing. Became even funnier when {{Creator/Felicia Day}}, who played Penny, was cast as mad scientist Dr. Kinga Forrester in the revival of ''{{Television/Mystery Science Theatre 3000}}''.

** Not to mention that there is also a record called NesRemix.
** WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog has a character named Penny, who sings, has red hair, and a mad scientist is in love with her. WarioWare has a character named Penny who is a redhead, a mad scientist herself, and harbors a secret fondness for singing.

* OlderThanTheyThink: [=WarioWare=] had its first incarnation (sans Wario) as part of a mini game in ''Mario Artist: Polygon Studio'' for the ill fated 64DD. Watch a clip of it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FoB3n1kxrY here]].)

* OlderThanTheyThink: [=WarioWare=] had its first incarnation (sans Wario) as part of a mini game in ''Mario Artist: Polygon Studio'' for the ill fated 64DD. Watch a clip of it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FoB3n1kxrY] here]].)

* OlderThanTheyThink: [=WarioWare=] had its first incarnation (sans Wario) as part of a mini game in ''Mario Artist: Polygon Studio'' for the ill fated 64DD, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FoB3n1kxrY]])

* ScrappyMechanic: The objective of Listen to the Doctor from ''Mega Party Games''. You're instructed to physically do something stupid OUTSIDE of the game, and there's nothing stopping the other players from refusing to applaud you and thus denying you any points. There's a reason that few multiplayer games are ever reliant on the honor system.

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* CounterpartComparison: 9-volt's Gamer minigame has drawn comparisons to ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', since you have to watch for 5-volt suddenly showing up, and you have to watch for 9-volt's "energy" to prevent him from falling asleep.

** The premise of the "Gamer" stage in ''Game & Wario'' bears more than a passing resemblance to ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', even though the former came out over a year before the latter.

** DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog has a character named Penny, who sings, has red hair, and a mad scientist is in love with her. WarioWare has a character named Penny who is a redhead, a mad scientist herself, and harbors a secret fondness for singing.

* BestBossEver: The [[FinalBoss bosses of the final stages]] usually fits. The first game had you play through a hilariously crappy adventure-style game that switched controls on the fly to things you [[FinalExamBoss may have played through earlier]]. ''Touched'' also had a similiar set-up for Wario-Man's boss stage and plays FinalExamBoss a bit more straight. Tiny Wario's stage had Wario Dance Company where you had to dance to the beat and strike poses every now and then. From the first game, we also Orbulon's boss game in the first [=WarioWare=] where you have to defeat a boss DragonQuest style by picking the correct spelling of the words, and Dribble & Spitz' boss stage which is reminiscent of the Shmups genre. ''Twisted'' had 9-Volt's boss stage where you played through a level from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' ''Smooth Moves'' had Dribble & Spitz' boss stage where your Mii went through a training course stage before taking down a giant nose, and 9-Volt's boss stage where you played through a level from the SNES ''VideoGame/{{Star Fox|1}}'' (Corneria, Sector X and Titania on the respective difficulties) and had to take down ROB with a Zapper.
* BestLevelEver: 9-Volt's stages tend to be much appreciated by fans for its focus on Creator/{{Nintendo}} games. From the first game, we have Ana & Kat's stage which is very Japanese flavored, having a song instead of interlude + game music, and having interesting microgames based on nature. The first game also has Dribble & Spitz's stage for its sci-fi style and song rather than interlude + game music, similiar to Ana & Kat's stage. It also has a great boss stage. ''Smooth Moves'' feature Dribble & Spitz for having interesting games as well as the microgames' music once again being switched in favor for a song and having a great boss on top of that.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: For only appearing in a few of the games, Ashley is very popular among fans.

* ThatOneBoss: ''Twisted'''s "Wario De Mambo".

* OlderThanTheyThink: Wario Ware had its first incarnation (sans Wario) as part of a mini game in ''Mario Artist: Polygon Studio'' for the ill fated 64DD, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FoB3n1kxrY]])