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It is. Your childhood is rock hard.

Well, it's called WarioWare, but really, it's as much a "Wario game" as it is a Mona game, or Jimmy T. game.

I think Mario Kart is more of a Mario game than WarioWare is a Wario game.
In Mario Kart you can play as the title character for the entirety. Wario's role is limited to being a host for tutorials and final stages.

But Wario actually appears in microgames. He even appears in some of 9-Volt's.

He does appear, but so do a myriad of other characters, including Mario. At any rate, I see no problem in calling WarioWare a Wario game, but it's definitely not one in the sense of priority or playability.

WarioWare isn't a a Wario game according to what the term "Wario game" meant from 1994-2003.

Like Pisty said, my childhood is rock hard. I'm alright with Ware Wario. I don't think he's ruined. I also play Wario Land and stuff.

Things are heating up in the small obscurity fandom...

it is a Wario game.

WarioWare is a Wario game because Wario's the main character, he's the reason the games happen at all and he's in the title. Deal with it.

Deal with it? I'm not trying to deflate anyone's love for WarioWare, @CM30, I'm trying to have a healthy discussion, because this was an extremely relevant question for Wario players back in 2003.

It's true that Wario became the *face* of the product, but he definitely wasn't the reason it was created. Mario Artist on N64 was the original host, for those still unaware... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UYOl5xjlg

But he had more games with microgames, and he's the current host. He's only a game developer so he can make money. He'd do anything else if it made him money. That's just like Wario.

Yeah, but that was the issue. Wario's role is limited to a shallow backstory. Any old character could host those microgames and it would play the same (as it did with Mario Artist).

Here's a quick little story, to explain my point to you good people...

Back in 2003-2006, when the WarioWare games first came out, I let all kinds of people try 'em out for a laugh. At high school, at family gatherings, parties and holidays, you name it...

Their response was always the same. They loved the microgames, but complained about the "time-wasting cutscenes" and random characters taking the spotlight away from Wario... "Where's Wario?" "Who are these losers?" "What's all this got to do with Wario?"

They'd ask why it was called "WarioWare", and that always bothered me.
Apart from two small cutscenes per game, and his likeness showing up in some microgames, he never served in any prominent use or capacity. So you can see why I've met this conclusion over the years, having grown up in the 90's with Wario's wild adventures.
It's like putting Scrooge McDuck in the role of an occasional narrator or "brand", rather than the active focus of his supposed comics.

Couldn't you say the exact same thing about Mario Paint, except more so? What exactly is Mario doing in it...

I know, right? Nobody ever says that about Mario Paint. Don't know why that is.

Mario Paint games didn't overtake the whole Mario franchise

They would have if Mario Paint had sold like 60 million copies.

Did WarioWare sell 60 million copies?