Episode 623: The Wario Land Ranking Hootenanny (Patreon)

Jeremy: Long, long ago (well, not that long), we recorded an episode in which we ranked the 2D Super Mario games. That conversation, while awesome, stumbled into a slightly awkward moment where we had to deal with the semantics of Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3. It's called "Mario," but the protagonist was Wario, and it played differently. Hootenanny shenanigans! So this week, we put a band-aid on podcast history by giving that game and all its sequels a proper ranking of their own. Not that there were that many Wario Land game, but they were substantial enough that we managed to pull together a full episode about them. Plus Master of Disguise.

We did not, however, talk about WarioWare games, because those are a whole other thing. How do you even compare WarioWare to Wario Land? Absolute nonsense. I suppose that means there's a whole other splinter of Mario games unaccounted for by these hootenannies. So much for that band-aid.

Stuart and Kevin and I enlist the help of Nature's most precious resource for this one: The Retronauts community. Well, the community on our Discord server. If you're one of the cool people on our Discord, you already knew that. And if not, well, you should get on that.

Art by Greg Melo, edits by Greg Leahy.

• 09:29 - Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3: World Map

• 19:20 - Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3: Final Boss

• 36:36 - Virtual Boy Wario Land: Demon Head | Wario Land II: Hen's Nest

• 44:38 - Wario Land II: Flat Wario

• 52:29 - Wario Land 3: Big Bridge

• 1:02:30 - Wario Land 3: Stage Clear (No New Treasure)

• 1:17:59 - Wario Land 4: Hall of Hieroglyphs

• 1:26:45 - Wario: Master of Disguise: Mini Game (Treasure)

• 1:36:54 - Wario Land: Shake It!: Stonecarving City

• Closing - Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3: Staff Roll