The original WarioWare is "widely considered to be one of the most innovative games of its generation, Mega Microgame$! created a new genre of games" as the Super Mario Wiki puts it in charmingly wooden prose, but there's actually a bunch of more obscure titles that used a similar formula of playing rapid-fire minigames. The Point Blank series is arguably the most proeminent example, but the game I want to talk about is Bishi Bashi.
It's a series of (mostly) arcade games released by Konami between 1996 and 2014 whose gameplay centers around playing a rapid succession of minigames featuring wacky scenarios, art style shifts and an healthy dose of irreverant Japanese humour. Sounds familiar?
Bishi Bashi's setup isn't a 100% match as it's focused on multiplayer: all the games are played up to 4 players and whoever gets the most point wins. The games can also be played in single-player against a bot but the whole preceding still feels very similar to WW. Judge for yourself:
Obviously I don't think anyone at Nintendo is going to come out and say one of their franchise was inspired by an obscure arcade game series, but do you think Bishi Bashi was a possible influence in the creation of the original WarioWare or Mario Artist's Polygon Studio "sound bomber" mode? speak your mind Wario forums
It's a series of (mostly) arcade games released by Konami between 1996 and 2014 whose gameplay centers around playing a rapid succession of minigames featuring wacky scenarios, art style shifts and an healthy dose of irreverant Japanese humour. Sounds familiar?
Bishi Bashi's setup isn't a 100% match as it's focused on multiplayer: all the games are played up to 4 players and whoever gets the most point wins. The games can also be played in single-player against a bot but the whole preceding still feels very similar to WW. Judge for yourself:
Obviously I don't think anyone at Nintendo is going to come out and say one of their franchise was inspired by an obscure arcade game series, but do you think Bishi Bashi was a possible influence in the creation of the original WarioWare or Mario Artist's Polygon Studio "sound bomber" mode? speak your mind Wario forums
