#Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

[nintendometro]

Enemy Artwork 'Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3' Game Boy

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Konotako

Debut: Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

It has been too long since we’ve talked about some obscure little Game Boy freaks. The kind of enemy to appear just a few times, in just one game, and whose highest resolution image is a scan of its black-and-white art from Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten. These have always felt like THE Weird Mario Enemies to me! But we’re running out of them. So sad. They don’t make Mario games for the Game Boy anymore. Now they make Grimace games for the Game Boy. We still do have a bunch of Game Boy creatures that we can talk about! But there is a finite amount, and we have already talked about most of the most interesting ones. And that is sad. But this post isn’t to make you sad! It is to teach you about a little digital freak that someone drew thirty years ago!

Konotako is a bunch of weird things at once! A bunch of things that don’t have anything to do with each other, but all are important to its identity. It is a Bomb, and it has batty wings, but truly, taxonomically, this is a cephalopod! It is an octopus creature of some kind, and those are its suckers on the bottom! And as an octopus, that means the “wings” are more like the fins of a dumbo octopus! These features kind of relate to each other after all! Not the fuse though. That is just a whole artificial-looking fuse attached on top.

I would love to hear Konotako roll around on a smooth surface! It would be so enriching! Suction on and off and on and off like one of those suction cup balls! Konotako does not actually need a smooth surface, though, because it is even able to stick to Wario’s lumpy face. It does this because it wants to kill Wario, as many creatures attempt to do, and as few succeed at. This is one of the games where they can succeed, though!

An exploding creature always seems counterintuitive if it’s not intentionally an expendable soldier, like some worker ants or all walking bombs. But Konotako being an octopus-like creature of all things makes this a bit more interesting! A female octopus dies after laying and tending to her eggs. Maybe the Konotako seen in game are guarding nearby, unseen clutches, and, knowing they have little time left for this world, are willing to use their last remaining energy to do away with any formidable creatures that may threaten their eggs... be nice to creatures, you never know what their noble goals are!

“Konotako” is a Japanese phrase meaning “you idiot”. Hey! Be nice! I just said that! I don’t know if it’s calling Konotako an idiot for exploding, or Wario an idiot for getting a bombtopus stuck to his face. I sure hope it’s not directed toward me or you! We’re not idiots! We’re cool and smart!

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art by CKLevel99

[shinigami-striker]

[Game Boy] Wario Land | Sunday, 01.21.24

On this day, the original Wario Land video game released on the original Game Boy handheld in Japan exactly 30 years ago!

[crabsinvideogames]

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

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[amygoldman90]

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 100% Longplay [HD]

[sketchmii]

💰✨30 years of Wario LAND✨💰

It’s the 30th Anniversary of the greatest game series in the universe (according to Wario), The Wario Land series!

Let’s celebrate this day by being really GREEDY, Please enjoy this piece I made for the occasion and have a ROTTEN day!

[lumsparko]

Recently complete Wario Land 3! It was fun collecting all of the treasures, makes me wish I had gotten into this series sooner

[misterygx]

Into the Warioverse

[lore-of-the-mushroom-kingdom]

Wario claims to be immortal and seems to be able to back it up in his games, possibly making him one of the few immortal Mario characters. This might be a result of him being one of the 7 Star Children. Not to mention he gets struck by lightning 2-3 times a week. Mini joke, imagine it's the Star Spirits trying to strike him down.

[nintendometro]

Nintendo Magazine System Australia #13, Apr '94 - 'Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3' Cover.

[elegiacmarquise]

✎📒My version of the Six characters meme, with a Nintendo spin! ✎📒

Shiver was suggested by @gatula on DeviantArt Princess Ruto was suggested by @acustardduckling Captain Syrup was suggested by @tokiro07 Hinawa was suggested by @spektrale-eulen Ludwig von Koopa was suggested by @____Ishtar____ on Twitter Kilton was suggested by my IRL friend

I want to give my wholehearted thank you very much to everyone, you have a really great taste in fact of characters! Each of them is so great and underrated, I even wanted to draw some of them for a while! :333 Among my requests I had some of my blorbos but I wanted to challenge myself and to draw a greater variety of characters, but thank you so for your request! <3 I had so much fun drawing everyone here, I hope you'll like it and see you soon! <3

[theruffiansretrorampage]

art by Lolwutburger

[shinigami-striker]

30 Years of Wario Land | Sunday, 01.21.24

It's been exactly 30 years since the Wario Land series kicked off with the original Wario Land game on the Nintendo Game Boy handheld in Japan.

Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land (1/21/1994) | Game Boy

Virtual Boy Wario Land (12/1/1995) | Virtual Boy

Wario Land II (10/21/1998) | Game Boy Color

Wario Land III (3/21/2000) | Game Boy Color

Wario Land 4 (8/21/2001) | Game Boy Advance

Wario Land: Shake It! (7/24/2008) | Wii

[crabsinvideogames]

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3