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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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Anonymous

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.

Anonymous

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.