WarioWare, Inc.
WarioWare, Inc. is a "company" founded and managed by Wario and plays a central role in the WarioWare series. It is located in Diamond City where Wario often meets with many of his friends. He and his friends develop the WarioWare games for Wario's company, including their main feature, the microgames. Despite the high success of the games, Wario usually refuses to pay his friends.
History
In WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, that retells the story of its making (in view of the fiction), Wario got the idea to found a video game company in Diamond City when he watched Ken's report about the successful video game Pyoro. Thinking that he could also make profit with a video game, he mounted his Wario Bike and took off in order to get a laptop. Soon, Wario's House that layd on a mountain pillar was replaced with the headquarters of WarioWare, Inc., the newly founded company. However, shortly after Wario started working on the game with the laptop, he got tired. Then he came up with the idea to phone his friends who could help him on the game. All known people he called agreed, and in order to save money, he let them develop a lot of microgames rather than one full game.
The first game of WarioWare, Inc. became a success, but Wario didn't want to share the profit with his friends, so he tried to escape with the money in a rocket attached to the building. However, his try failed because the flying Dr. Crygor crashed into the rocket, causing it to fall into the sea with Wario and the money.
The WarioWare, Inc. headquarters weren't seen in later games again, except for WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!, where it is seen in the menu screen. In games since WarioWare: Twisted!, Wario resides in his house which lies on the ground rather than the mountain pillar seen in the first two games. It isn't known what happened to the headquarters, but Wario still runs his business.
WarioWare: Twisted!, WarioWare: Touched! and WarioWare: Smooth Moves use special control schemes and the games did all result from quick ideas Wario got after using certain objects. For example, after Wario's Game Boy Advance transformed into a tilt-sensitive handheld without buttons thanks to Dr. Crygor's Gravitator, he did quickly realize that he could make money with microgames based on this control scheme. In Utsusu Made in Wario which makes use of the Nintendo DSi's camera, Wario even expanded his business to an amusement park named Wario Park, while the upcoming Made in Ore will allow players to create their own microgames.
A stage based on the WarioWare corporation is featured in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Name Differences
In the West, WarioWare, Inc. or just WarioWare is both the name of Wario's company and the video game series. However, in Japan his company is known as Wario Company (ワリオカンパニー Wario Kanpanī) and the games are called Made in Wario. Despite this, the name WarioWare, Inc. was already introduced in the Japanese version of the very first game of the series, prior to the western release. On Wario's staff card shown in the opening sequence, it reads "WarioWare, Inc." (the capitalization varies) in both the Japanese and western versions. In the Japanese version, this was an exception, though.
Employees
- Wario (president, CEO)
- Jimmy T.
- Mona
- Dribble and Spitz
- 9-Volt and 18-Volt
- Dr. Crygor
- Orbulon
- Kat and Ana
- Ashley (and Red)
- Mike
- Young Cricket (and Master Mantis)
- Penny Crygor
A few more characters also appear as hosts of stages, namely Thang Family members, Fronk and Jimmy P., but it is rather unlikely that these are actually employees. The sidekicks Red and Master Mantis aren't told to be microgame developers, so it is arguable that they are employees, too. Furthermore, Wario also went through incarnations such as Wario-Man and Tiny Wario.
