Wario Ware Inc. Site Opens

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out that the official Wario Ware, Inc. website has opened, advertising the forthcoming Gameboy Advance micro-game title (that's mini mini-games, of course) being released in the States on May 26th. Here's a preview with screenshots which explains the concept a little better - you have about 5 seconds to play and win each microgame, which even include riffs on Mario, Duck Hunt, and so on, and a massive amount of different microgames are chained together until.. well, your brain dribbles out of your ears. Should be fun.

5 seconds

[Anonymous Coward]

you have about 5 seconds to play and win each microgame

5 seconds seems awefully short, doesn't it?
looking at the screenshots, some of the games seem really, uhm, strange [iswhat.net], but i still cant imagine playing them in 5 seconds

Re:5 seconds

[someguy]

That particular game involves a hand sliding back and forth horizontally under the nose. The object is to press the action button at the proper time to have the finger go up into the nose. Harder iterations involve faster hand movement and narrower nostrils.

Awesome game

[someguy]

I managed to try out this game imported and it is truly insane.

It's about how fast you can react and analyze new mini-games. There's over 100 of them total. You play through different sections, trying to beat games that get harder and harder. As you get a certain number of levels in for each section you unlock other sections.

A lot of these games are based off of 8-bit nintendo games and replicate the original look perfectly. But you also even see a lot of game and watch type games and even some cameos by a virtua boy game or two.

The games really are super short short and a lot of them involve hitting a specific button quickly or performing a certain controller movement before the time limit is up. The concept works *totally* well and should definitely be picked up by anybody who thinks they're fast players and is looking for something unique.

emulator

[Hadlock]

my friend downloaded the ROM of this off of kazaa and was playing it on his emulator a couple of days after the first gamespy preview article came out, probably early march.

this is a crazy, crazy game. you banish, or maybe rescue, various people, a disco dancer, other people, and finally wario himself, to an ice cream shop, by succssfully completing 30 or so of these 3 second stages (for example, catch the toast, or "click on the food"), and of course as the article mentioned, there are lots of overly s

Great reviews so far...

[Reedo]

The critics are loving it [gametab.com]. Normally I don't care for little mini-game compilations because they tend to get boring quickly, but it sounds like this one has some interesting twists and good 'ol Nintendo polish.

Australian release date too!

[Tsuzuki]

It's coming out in Australia on the 6th of June. Since it strikes me as a cross between "Ganbare, Neopoke-Kun" and "Bishi-Bashi" on speed and without instructions, I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Sacrilegious Nintendo

[SolubleFrank]

"wario giveth and wario taketh away" Hopefully there are more great Bible quotes like that in the full game.