The Start of Wario's Solo Career

[@EvanAdvent]

I love watching the Game Grumps episode on Super Troll Island and seeing how much of a secret horror game that game is. "The Evil Mist has been banished." "NO IT HAS NOT!"

[@blakehooper1787]

Man, Nintendo Power cared so little about the Trolls game that they didn't use the correct screenshots in their review.

[@kokotheclown2588]

I mean it’s a trolls game for a dead console so if I was them I’ll probably do the same no offense to the developers but it’s a trolls game in a dead console

[@blakehooper1787]

@@kokotheclown2588 Wasn't that one on the SNES? That console was most certainly not dead in 1994.

[@kokotheclown2588]

@@blakehooper1787yeah lol my bad it look like a NES game can u blame tho

[@blakehooper1787]

I don't blame you in the slightest for being critical of the crappy trolls game that I only knew of before because Game Grumps played it once.

[@bananonymouslastname5693]

I sadly own that game. I bought it at FuncoLand for next to nothing in the '90s at least out of curiosity, but it is super lousy. It is funny that Nintendo Power had the wrong screens. I need to see if I have that issue.

[@kenwalter5502]

Wow... this is the first episode that made me cry for my old game collection. I had TMNT Tournament Fighters and WarioLand back in the day, traded them into my local game shop for credit as I moved up the console generations... regerts

[@thelaughingrouge]

Man do I feel that mood. 100% relatable.

[@ionfalcom1]

still got mine!, doesn't work anymore though lol rip.

[@Gatorade69]

Hey, at least you got some measly store credit for it. Better than your stepdad throwing it all away once you moved out at 18... 🥲

[@xenos_n.]

We've all been there.

[@MichaelWilliams85]

I often think about the Sega Master System and NES collection my older sister convinced me to sell at our yard sell back in 95

[@c.argelfraster1291]

I hate it when my Editor Dylan flickers too much! So glad they fixed that in the re-release.

[@JeshuaWithAnE]

Really enjoying that the transitions back to the collector’s corner tend to be Dylan and Jared doing a quick bit together. Really improves the flow.

[@dahubbzgaming]

Wario hitting us with that "Greed is good."

[@GabePuratekuta]

Of course. He's a German capitalist.

[@releasethedogs]

Yeah I specifically remember that too. It was so strange and different back then, the fact you got to play the bad guy.

[@Scott-fj9uf]

Fridays are my Mondays and for almost 2 years now I have started my week with NITN every Friday. It make starting the work week a little more tolerable and is a ray of fun.

[@SnowyFoxFox]

02:24 Yup! In the 90's, in the UK, "nut" (noun) meant "head," and "nut" (verb) meant "headbutt."

[@1Holbytla]

🙂Nice! I kind of figured that from the context but cool to know. It’s sort of funny, too, that Jared mentions headbutting in reference to the Troll dolls.

[@mixmastermacaroni]

You guys definitely deserve like a million subscribers! Honestly great channel!

[@Mystik3eb]

I don't care, whatever it is, I always really enjoy the Dylan + Jared banter between segments near the end. It's just so fun and satisfying.

[@miahthorpatrick1013]

I used to have Tournament Fighters on the NES. Man I really regret selling it like an idiot.

[@TranquilVision]

Jared, I appreciate your correct pronunciation of February.

[@kennethd4958]

I feel like every 90's kid had a Troll doll or someone in their family had one but no one ever remembers actually getting them... they just showed up in the house.

[@1Holbytla]

😲 Oh, my! 😂

[@BigGahmBoss]

My brother is the only person I know who likes and will willingly do those slide puzzles. I'm 37 and he's 40 and I STILL hand him controllers when my patience inevitably wears out

[@notadocmartin]

There was a whole troll store in a nearby town growing up. This was all they sold. I looked it up recently out of curiosity and it turned out that a collector acquired the stock when the store closed, and its contents are now a part of the Troll Hole, a museum in Ohio. The more you know!

[@mybrainmelted]

you gotta pay the troll toll to get in

[@alanbalan3539]

Just in case people were still wondering about the wario advert, to `nut` something in the uk means a headbutt. Or at least it did. These days brits are pretty familiar with american slang. Other fun uk ways to refer to a persons head that I recall: melon, bonce and noggin.

[@Chaos89P]

Heard all three before, and I'm American.

[@geraq0]

I enjoy sliding puzzles when they are about numbers, like the one in Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow. When they are about images, though, my brain just switches off, I don't know why.

[@Brandolph]

I had two Troll dolls as a kid. One small one, that had blue hair and a blue gem in it. The other was a larger Super Hero Count Troll. You guys just unlocked hidden memories in my noggin!

[@delecti]

I actually love sliding puzzles. As a kid I had one that was like 10x10 of the M.C. Escher "Sky and Water" that I spent ages on.

[@ncsupi]

10:31 Hi Tech Expressions also did that weird Mega Man for DOS, which I loved as a kid

[@releasethedogs]

"Over 5 million copies was enough to launch Wario into a successful solo career. Only previously accomplished by Yoshi." Ummmm no. Mario was a Donkey Kong character before he became his own thing. Donkey Kong (the game) featured Mario, then called "jumpman" and was released in 1981. The game "Mario Bros", which was the first game in the series of the same name to spin off of the Jumpman character, now rebranded as "Mario" in their first solo game was release two years later in 1983.

[@silverlight6074]

I mean, I don't *like* sliding tile puzzles, but I also don't have the visceral spite for them that many others seem to have. Which strikes me as odd. I grew up with mostly action video games, and never had the patience for parser/point-and-click adventure games outside of a few specific outliers, but all the stereotypical puzzles--sliding tiles, pipelines, blackouts--are just simple logic games that are only frustrating if there's some annoying, forced delay preventing you from solving them more quickly.

[@BunnySMG]

Troll Island might be similar to Q*bert, but it's actually the exact concept as a game called Miner 2049er I had on the Colecovision. Remember Colecovision? No? Damn, I'm old.

[@1Holbytla]

😲I remember Colecovision! I loved it and really have only good memories of that system. Lol Guess I must be old, too! Smurfs and Venture were a couple of my favorites.

[@BunnySMG]

Venture was great, but I killed far more hours on Mr, Do than any other game on the system. Cosmic Avenger was probably my distant second.

[@jisims95]

9:16 I thought Bart doesn't have a cow. 😉

[@Mr.Boglin]

Wario is one of my favorite characters of all time. i still remember the commercial showing he got his own game and FLIPPING over it!

[@ebbderelict]

I like those sliding puzzles. I"m fairly good at them. I have a couple physical ones based on MC Escher works.

[@zannrazor8569]

I finally caught up, looking forward to Friday. I think my sister had a troll doll

[@JustBoredGaming]

editor Dylan speaking the TRUTH about those dumb sliding puzzles

[@seanwilkinson7431]

Coincidentally, "An Arcade Port, More Ninjas, and A Chicken" is the title of my favorite Two and A Half Men episode. 😂😂😂

[@mateussilva635]

As a fellow THM lover I DEMAND you explain that reference dude!

[@seanwilkinson7431]

@@mateussilva635 reference to "Skunk, Dog Crap, and Ketchup," and how at some point before the show lost its Sheen (🤪), the joke became "how is Chuck Lorre going to make THAT title work?" "Skunk, Dog Crap and Ketchup" is a perfect visual representation of that thought process, and feels like an old school, long-form joke with the title as the punchline. I also really like "Squab Squab Squab Squab Squab" (so there's your chicken reference! Kinda!) and the surreal world-building of "The Death Of Charlie Harper."

[@rrrob19]

I just realized we’re getting close to the release of Ken Griffey Jr presents Major League Baseball. I wonder if Jared will cover it because it was a big Nintendo release that got a Nintendo Power cover or Dylan since it’s a sports game.

[@CastoCFC]

Wario Land was the first GB game I ever beat. That final boss fight was intense.

[@stax6092]

Dylan, you're right. The beans should grow into a rocket-ship. I am glad I am not the only one who finds those old troll dolls creepy as hell.

[@jw6588]

Who is supplying Jared with these loud t-shirts? Today's was a total eyesore.

[@gabrieliatarelli]

Man, this channel was one of the best discoveries I've made last year, I'm waiting to get a job and become a member soon.

[@ClaudiaRamos-ov3xh]

Oh my goood! I had that bugs bunny game! But I was never able to finish I think level 2. The part in the bar where the cowboy shoots you, whatever is suppose to happen in order to beat him simply never happened. I was never able to figure it out. I was also 6

[@justavivi3386]

Trolls also had NES video game, released in 1993 called Trolls in Crazyland which is reskin of japanese game Doki! Doki! Yūenchi: Crazy Land Daisakusen. It was released only in Europe.

[@HylianFox3]

There was also the fantastically bad 'Trolls on Treasure Island' which was a reskin of the bootleg 'Dudes With Attitudes'

[@lankthedank6931]

Despite growing up in the 2000’s, Wario Land was my childhood! We had an old Game Boy when I was a kid as well as a GBA. It was this, Dr. Mario, and Mario Land 2.

[@recorderdude]

That SNES Trolls game actually got reskinned as Mr. Blobby for Amiga!

[@snukastyle]

I never cared for the Troll craze in the 90s. I was waiting for it to be over, but then it felt like everyone had to make their version. And yes, sliding puzzles are annoying. I think there was a game once where I didn't mind them, but for the most part they're butt.

[@ClaudiaRamos-ov3xh]

I completely agree with Dylan. Slide puzzles aren't fun!!!

[@AtlasBlizzard]

Thank you, Dylan! I can't stand sliding puzzles either, and I don't get why so many games force them down your throat.

[@MLaker221]

Such a good program. Keep up the great work

[@ZionKraze]

Wait a minute, that Troll game is the Mr Blobby game from the Amiga! Who made this?! *LOOKS UP GAME* Oh.... they were both made by Millennium Interactive Ltd..

[@DarlaKajca]

Don't know what's weirder that they're still making nes games in 1994 or that the last 8 bit/16 TMNT game is on the NES

[@Advrik]

Would love to see Dylan's reaction Lufia 2's "World's Most Difficult Trick" considering his feelings towards sliding block puzzles, because phew

[@whitemageFFXI]

I love those sliding puzzles, lol.

[@db_524]

As do I, they keep my brain guessing.

[@GR8FLMD3AD]

This is my current fav nostalgia channel!

[@JuanGomez-ke5py]

8:59 the Thompsons bort meeting radioactive man

[@HylianFox3]

Confession: I liked the sliding puzzles in The Wind Waker. They were a fun distraction even if all you got was rupees. Which is nice, since that means they're also 100% optional. If beating them all was required, then it'd be a different story...

[@KairuHakubi]

I liked them, I didn't like that there were _sixteen_ of them and there was no good reward. they should have had the butler tell you this is just how you get rupees (which is why the deed is so valuable). maybe eight would have been better.

[@HelpTheWretched]

I didn't care for it in The Wind Waker until figuring out the trick that makes them not so tough. On the other hand, they're a staple of the Professor Layton series, and usually have some variation that makes you use your logic a bit differently.

[@Chaos89P]

​@@KairuHakubiBut the butler DID say that, at least on the first puzzle. He explicitly laments that all he could give is money. Also, don't quit in the middle, unless you don't mind him literally crying over an existential crisis.

[@KairuHakubi]

@@Chaos89P oh well there you go then

[@maverickhuntermeta4954]

Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage was one of those games I used to rent at a local video game store. The sprite animation and artwork is definitely great, but that difficulty was annoying, and I didn't know how bad that hit detection is. Mickey's Ultimate Challenge was something I thought it would play similar like Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse, but for a set of puzzle games, it was ok and very short. I still have my copy put away.

[@ShanetheFreestyler]

Technically, Super Troll Islands _did_ get ported to Amiga and DOS in the UK as... Mr Blobby... You don't want to look him up. I ask any of my UK friends and they either curl up in a ball or run away in absolute terror. Rabbit Rampage, I rented it once. Thought it looked pretty good too, but it's just another example of a well animated game that doesn't have the good gameplay to go with it. At least Micky's Ultimate Challenge was good, even if easy, it's a quick hit at least. And now, what I've been waiting to talk about since last December: TMNT: Tournament Fighters for NES! Yeah, pretty damn good fighting game on NES! Of course it took for the genre to take off in the 16-bit era for this to happen, but better late than never, right? Oh, and the manual actually gives an in-universe reason to explain why you can't have a Hothead mirror match. Quote from the manual: *Due to the nature of the dragon-warrior spirit which inhabits Hot Head's [sic] body, there cannot be a duel between two Hot Heads. [sic] It would be like putting two Siamese fighting fish in the same bowl. Trust us-- that's an ugly scene you don't want to see!* That said, there _is_ a glitch to allow a Hothead duel by starting a Vs CPU match with him as the opponent, then chose rematch after the battle and pick Hothead as your fighter while the CPU will stay on Hothead as long as you don't move the cursor. Of course it will be a flickering mess, but the fact there's an alternate palette for him makes it clear they wanted this to be possible in the first place!

[@JohnVanRiper]

I love slide puzzles.

[@db_524]

Same, I love puzzles in general, sliding puzzles included.

[@Bumbleton]

What a great thing to watch every week! I played so much Wario as a kid

[@LJW1912]

I'm absolutely disgusted you didn't mention Wario Land 4. Literally the best one

[@strataseeker2981]

Where I was living, those troll dolls were big business along with Pogs (up to an including Trolls Pogs). I had a pile of them in a box back then, dunno when they vanished.

[@HylianFox3]

"Remember Trolls? They're back! In Pog form."

[@heyjustj]

Now we just need Nickelodeon Gak, koosh ball, and yak bak references in an episode and I think we got a solid coverage of the toys back then.

[@Yorukin]

Sliding puzzles are a simple pleasure of mine, though I'm not really sure if it's Stockholm Syndrome or not. I remember just doing the Wind Waker puzzles for a few hours to get all the money I needed for Tingle's translation racket, and it turns out there's usually a really simple sequence of tricks to solving them. There's definitely still a guide for that somewhere on the internet.

[@AtomizedGaming]

I had one of the stone protector figures that had the little flint in the belly that made sparks.

[@reptilez13]

I think the Trolls game is a reskin of an Amiga game or something iirc. It's obviously EU developed but it either was something else then changed during development or a reskin entirely from another original game, hence the strange mechanic that doesn't have any real connection to Trolls lol, plus the more generic Euro-dev aesthetic

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

The last time I heard of Troll Island was from the ScrewAttack video many moons ago. Still more nightmare fuel inducing than most supposed nightmare fuel.

[@KurogawaGray]

I like slide puzzles, and I'm not ashamed to say it.

[@1Holbytla]

🙂 I’m glad you (& others!) can enjoy them. I just don’t. I want to. I’ve tried. All good! Sometimes it’s just different strokes for different folks! Also, when I read your comment, for some reason I heard it blasting in my head like the opening line to “Baby Got Back”. 😬😂

[@DrunkMoblin]

I like the sliding puzzles.

[@tempestfennac9687]

If I remember correctly from an Octavius King video, that Trolls game was repackaged as a Mr. Blobby game over here (as in the UK). She said it was pretty bad.

[@khululyp]

REm4ke does have some sort of variation to the sliding puzzle to obtain a treasure in the village portion but it is more a rotation puzzle.

[@farcry223]

I always enjoy watching this series every Friday.

[@motherplayer]

I do like hearing that. "It was available on digital platforms, but that's done, so the only legit way it to buy normally." I know, I know, piracy and stuff, but it still sucks that they make trying to buy legit so hard. Also, I had a troll doll too, and it scared me. I still remember one night one of them was put on my toy box and I couldn't sleep thinking about it being so.....near me. Also, yes, I FUCKING HATE SLIDER PUZZLES! MY PAIN THAT THIS KEPT ME FROM ADVANCING IN ONIMUSHA FOR SO LONG!!

[@nathanmarshall745]

Pretty sure re4 remake has a sliding puzzle for a sellable treasure that's totally optional if you don't care for the achievement for getting all the treasures in the game

[@dacypher22]

Oh god! That troll going down the ladder at 5:58 looks horrifying!

[@d.9258]

LOVE the channel! I legit look forward to it every Friday morning!

[@mattkuhn6634]

I loved Warioland back in the day! Honestly the gameplay was just really, really fun, and it was a nice change of pace to the other Mario games. I also remember loving the Virtual Boy Warioland - they had it on the demo machine at the Toys R Us near me, so I would always play it when I went there while I could.

[@AndyEmerald]

Warioland was my favorite GB game!

[@denis480]

10:11 His voice really sounds like Richard Darbois, the French voice for Harrison Ford. Uncanny.

[@neogohanamv]

Thanks for including some coverage from Game Players Magazine! It may be a weird thing to thank you for, but that magazine shaped my childhood, and I love seeing it get recognition.

[@StCerberusEngel]

I had 1 troll doll as a kid. It was one of the Battle Trolls and had a gimmick that it stank.

[@01100101011100100111]

11:05 I think I remember this game! If I'm right, you can play as either Mickey or Minnie in this game, and they serve as the different difficulties in this game, with Mickey being "normal" difficulty and Minnie being "easy" difficulty. I remember this specifically because after playing through the game as Mickey, I replayed it with Minnie and thought the game felt easier, then I got to the sliding puzzle and it was simplified to an absurd degree. The sliding puzzle for Minnie is practically already solved, only requiring you to slide ONE SINGLE tile to complete the puzzle. Edit: After looking up a longplay of that game, there IS a difficulty selector that is independent of the character selection. I was remembering that wrong for some reason.

[@KairuHakubi]

if it's the one I remember, then either you couldn't do that or I didn't know that. But I do recall the music being amazing. real catchy.

[@01100101011100100111]

@@KairuHakubi I looked up a longplay of it, and you can play as Minnie, but there's also a difficulty selection right after character selection. So the characters don't serve as the difficulty. I either remembered it wrong, or didn't understand the selections when I first played it years ago. Either is very possible. I distinctly remember that slide puzzle, though, so I'm probably still right about the slide puzzle being almost auto-solved in the easy difficulty.

[@TAGanimation]

I find those sliding puzzles impossible. Im not sure if theres an "easy method" i never considered, but i was kinda scared when i thought i needed to complete one to finish the game.

[@supersasukemaniac]

I love the new interaction between Jared and Dylan.

[@xGrundisx]

Never had a troll doll but my god the accuracy of the hardness.

[@JuanGomez-ke5py]

9:13 of the Thompson bort in the Beanstalk

[@jw6588]

1:50 That will always be the voice of Wario for me.

[@johnsesia9050]

6:33 Back up, Splinter was kidnapped?! I watched a Longplay of that game and recall no such mention.

[@kokotheclown2588]

The debut of a mascot that’ll get his own series that involves micro mini games

[@Chaos89P]

I never had one of those Troll dolls, my folks did. ALSO: Glad I'm not the only one who knows that trick that trivializes the slide puzzle in RE4. I did also find out that you can move two tiles at a time; trivializes that puzzle even further.

[@nobodyimportant8859]

Did anybody else notice that wario only has sideburns when he's wearing a hat?

[@1Holbytla]

LOL 😂👍 They must be part of the hat itself! That’s hilarious.

[@shindoushuichi0287]

That micky game was a large bane on my childhood. That puzzle screwed me out of finishing the game so many damn times

[@BriBCG]

Those sliding puzzles as far as I remember were popular as physical puzzles before they ever ended up in video games. I'm not sure why since nobody seems to like them ;)

[@TigerNightmare]

I got one as a low level prize from ski ball. Solved it once, done forever.

[@ZombieJesus1987]

Simpsons really tried their hardest to make "Whoa, mama" a thing lol

[@beipiaosaurus]

Don't have a cow, man!

[@1Holbytla]

“Eat Pant!” 😂 LOL Sorry (not really! 😉) Was remembering a silly Soothouse video where they found odd ripoffs of popular franchise characters. “Eat Pant!” was someone’s “Eat my Shorts” equivalent. Something like: “Pubescent Frog of Silent War” was for a ripoff TMNT Halloween costume.

[@cursedex80]

The faces of those trolls in the video game are going to haunt me in my nightmares from now on. EDIT: 11:51 I'm pretty sure the "nobody" part in that statement is literally correct.

[@maugos]

Oh man, WarioLand was my jam. I go back to it every once in a while. Always a good time.

[@HanDaimond]

Curious that you mentioned TMNT Tournament Fighters right after the Trolls game because I was remembering having the action figure set of the Turtle Trolls. They looked cursed enough, but I liked them, 90s.

[@Sayzee_YFRWN]

Bro I fucking LOVE THIS SERIES thank you so much.

[@db_524]

I had a couple of the treasure trolls dolls myself. Some small, others normal sized.

[@nero_gb]

tbf the Wario Blast title was just a US thing since they only add Wario's sprite to the game Bomberman GB (the japanese one, not to be confused with the Bomberman GB that the US got that in actuallity is Bomberman GB2 in japan). the original title doesn't have anything to do with Wario

[@AriochStarr]

"... get as much money as you can..." Warioland sounds like the perfect game for Jared.

[@MrMovees87]

Wario Land was one of my first Game Boy games I ever owned, along with Pokémon Blue. I played the HELL out of them growing up, as I adored both games to bits!

[@SuperTeeter64]

Very great two games. Donkey Kong Land was my first ever Game Boy game.

[@kingslayer2999]

Wario needs to be in the Next Super Mario Bros Movie

[@heyjustj]

Oh boy Trolls flashback as soon as I saw Stone Protectors! My mom had grown up with Troll dolls in the 50s-60s and when they came back in full force in the 90s it was insane. Stone Protectors though was trying hard to ride that TMNT wave and incorporate EVERY 90s fad. A Rockband with a ninja that also kind of rapped and one with rollerblades into “extreme” sports, etc. What a time. But then even TMNT came out with a Trolls version of their action figures. Def remember watching Stone Protectors and wanting the action figures.

[@KairuHakubi]

I appreciated that the show actually acknowledged how hideous those troll dolls were, by having the band be totally horrified by their transformation. like I'd rather be a turtle or something, man.

[@lennywright5655]

Back in the 90s one of the only things kids didn’t attack each other with were their video games, they were too expensive and your parents would kill you if you broke them assaulting your friends and siblings 😅

[@1Holbytla]

🙂 I remember at least one time my cousin tried to whack his brother with an NES controller. He full-on swung it by the cord at his bro.

[@shinrailp1416]

Ah Wario Land. I played so much of this game back in the day just trying to find all of the hidden treasures and getting the biggest castle at the end. This game was so much fun. Oh and i'm 100% with Dylan here, Sliding puzzles can burn in hell, they are a waste of time and not fun!

[@mattmcsherry]

What is the music you put under the first half of the Wario Land section? I had my headphones on and it’s a jam. I want to listen to it while I go about my day running my errands.

[@Foolyguy]

Treasure Troll fun fact: In the origin country for the toy line, Denmark, they are also known as 'Dam Dolls'. Named after it's creator 'Thomas Dam'!