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We recorded a Wario Land podcast waaaay back at the relaunch of the show. 

That was seven years ago. Seven! What the heck? 

Anyway, in keeping with our current approach to podcasting, ergo to discuss topics in greater depth and spend less time breezing through top-level overviews, it seemed a good time to revisit Wario. It helps that I've put together comprehensive video retrospectives on a couple of Wario Land games in recent years, so I've come to this episode better armed and more deeply entrenched in the topic.

Bob and Henry join me this week for a good, solid, core Retronauts discussion of a topic near and dear to our hearts. (But not to our noses, because Wario is clearly a very smelly dude.) This episode is about Wario's first two Land outings—Super Mario Land 3 and Virtual Boy Wario Land—because they're very much of a piece with one another, whereas the later games go in pretty drastically different directions. As we'll discuss in a few months!

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Eric Plunk

Nice! The episode from 7 years ago is what inspired me to play through the games through the 3DS virtual console and I’ve just recently acquired a Virtual Boy & VB Wario Land.

Grant Baxter

This episode title is amazing. I have a strong fondness for the gameplay of the original Wario Land even though it's more of a traditional platformer than the later entries.

Normallyretro

Wow. Reminds me of the original Retronauts blog and the awesome beginnings.

Conner McCabe

Even though Wario had yet to reach his full farting form by this first game it remains a staple for me. Finally revisited this game in January and it was better than I remembered. Love the episode art!

Jared Blankenship

Excellent as always! However, I downloaded this episode and it doesn't have the cover art with it, the picture is just blank. Is there a place I can download it?

Phoequinox

The Wario Land episode was what kept me hooked to Retronauts initially. I'd never played the games before, even though I always wanted to as a kid, and you guys really captured my interest. Retronauts was the first podcast I ever listened to, and I was on the fence initially. The first episode (reboot, not 1UP) was interesting, but kind of dry. I learned a lot, but it wasn't exactly entertaining. Then the infamous prog rock episode came on and I bailed about 10 minutes in. So the Wario Land episode was kind of the one that made me go "Okay, I'm in." I actually miss the format of alternating three hosts, along with Ray. But I'm also more fond of you guys being more confident in your craft. Having said that, I'm more than happy to hear even more about the grotesque manchild known as Wario, so keep on revisiting.

John peretti

How did you miss that it's going to be twenty-twenty-WAAAHHHHne? I would expect nothing less from the year of wario.

Justin M

Not gonna lie.. I remember listening to the first Wario Land episode years ago and hearing Jeremy & Bob shrug off the original and VB entries kinda bugged me at the time. Maybe it was just nostalgia but I REALLY liked those games! So its very satisfying to hear they’ve finally come around to appreciate them today. In the same respect, I had a hard time with the pivot the series made to 2 & 3 when they were new, and listening to that original episode got me to play them again and discover newfound appreciation for what they are.

DarthObvious

The original Wario Land is my favorite Wario game, but I never really got a chance to play the others. I have them on 3DS and should really fix that. The original Wario Land is up there with Link's Awakening as my top two Game Boy games, but also because I feel like they were some of the last great original Game Boy games before Pokemon. Thinking of that gap...its insane Pokemon ever got released at all. This was also a strange time where I didn't actually play my Game Boy that much, but got a Super Game Boy and played most of my Game Boy games there.