In light of… that. Pizza Tower was HEAVILY inspired on the Wario Land series, especially on Wario Land 4, which is a Nintendo game that came out for the Game Boy Advance in 2001. Pirating Game Boy Advance games is super easy! On PC, all you have to do is download Visual Boy Advance M and download a ROM from a ROM sharing website. I recommend Wow Roms or Vimm’s Lair.
If you have a modded 3DS however! You can install New Super Ultimate Injector, which allows you to play not only GBA games but also NES, SNES, original Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Mega Drive, Game Gear AND TurbiGrafx 16 games on your 3DS! Tumblr doesn’t like links, so I’ll link to those programs + ROMs + tutorials on how to use them on a reblog of this post.
Would you play with this Toy Car? I hope not, because it is dangerous! I hope the company that manufactured this toy car faced consequences for marketing weapons to children. Maybe they put a little Wario in it to distract us... it's working on me! What was I talking about? A tiny Wario? Okay!
Make no mistake! This is a small Wario driving this toy car. To be honest, it's not actually as small as one would think, or as I had remembered. It's about child-sized, so this is like a Wario Junior. Note that it's only called Toy Car! They don't specify that the Wario inside is a toy. Maybe Wario really does have countless identical sons driving little motorized cars in toy worlds...!
Probably not though, since this is a whole toy themed world, so either Wario has shrunk, or everything is bigger than it normally would be. I am making this thought a distinct paragraph because I want to point out that this game has those delightful layered LEGO trees! I love those and am always so happy to remember they are here! It is really such an excellent visual! Yippee!
The Toy Cars are obviously modeled after the Wario Car, which debuted in this game, so you can tell they were banking on it being Cool. They were right! You can tell because Wario is doing a thumbs-up, which means he likes it, and he does not need anyone else's approval to tell him it's cool. Or maybe he is doing a thumbs-up about his Deluxe Hot Dog! You can tell he likes them with the funny little twist knot on the end! A real gourmet delicacy!
It may not be the SAME Toy Car exactly, but in Wario's amiibo board in Mario Party 10, there is a toy Wario Car as a decoration! Alongisde a pump of Wario Gas. He loves that stuff! He makes it himself! This car may not contain a small Wario, but maybe he got out to go to the bathroom because he is a real flesh and blood and organs boy. This one also does not include the large spike on the front, which is wonderful news! Hooray! They made a Wario Car toy that is not designed to puncture skin!
Just between you and me, if you are ever tasked with designing a product, remember to not make it Dangerous. This little life hack will prevent lawsuits and help you to lose less money! Hm? No, I am not a professional economist. I get that a lot, though!
i like stories where someone good becomes corrupted by evil or someone evil slowly becomes some definition of good or whatever as much as the next stories girlie but i dont think id be who i am without playing through the fundamentally life-changing experience of a story about a mario villain who's unapologetically evil getting to be the protagonist of his own game, going through some wildly fucked up cosmic horror kirby type shit, experiencing some transcendent beauty and understanding the world a little better, and then coming out the other side genuinely unable to even conceptualize the building blocks necessary to process and communicate about what he's just experienced so he just goes back to living his hedonistic unapologetically evil lifestyle even though he cant help but feel the slightest bit different because unknowingly hes been utterly changed by the situation at his core. TWICE.
wario land 4 and bowser's inside story are holding hands and kissing. i love you tales of Big Strong Villains having genuine emotional experiences and understanding their relationship to the world better WITHOUT letting go of their unapologetic and sometimes wholly unearned confidence in themselves. how do i say that bowser and wario are role models to me as a trans girl without sounding unhinged
In Wario Land 4, the collectible CD in the 40 Below Fridge level unlocks a song in the Sound Room called “The Moon’s Lamppost”. It is essentially Medamayaki, the song from the Palm Tree Paradise level, played backwards.
However, re-reversing the song reveals that it does not completely match up with Medamayaki. Instead of the entire song being reversed, it is the playback order of the samples used for the instruments, and the order of the individual syllables sung by the singer, that are reversed instead (while the actual samples are not reversed). In other words, the song is playing samples that are the right way around, in an order that is the wrong way around.
This creates an unsettling sound when the song is reversed, since although the notes are now in the correct order, the instrument samples still sound incorrect, since now those are reversed instead. Above is The Moon’s Lamppost re-reversed to sound like Medamayaki.
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