I was browsing through the GameFAQs website to see what SNES ROM I wanted to try next. One game caught my glimpse: Mario and Wario. I downloaded the ROM and tried it out on ZSNES. It certainly caught my interest.
It was a game that was not released in America for some reason, and it utilities the SNES mouse. It is playable with the controller too; but it's not as "free". I have yet to figure out how to play the game with a controller, though.
The story is that Wario plays a prank on Mario by throwing random things on his head to impair his vision - let it be a bucket, vase, eggshell, barrel, cloud, and so on. Wanda, a fairy, decides to help Mario by helping him through the levels by adding or removing blocks, destroying enemies and nudging him around so he can reach to the GOAL, where Luigi is so he can remove the object that is impairing Mario's vision. This game is, of course, timed so you don't really have time to fool around.
Mushrooms in the game add more time. Stars give you bonus points, and if you collect all four in a level, you get a 1-UP. Coin blocks can give up to 10 coins if you repeatedly click on it.
There are 8 worlds to choose from at the start, which consists of 10 stages each. Each world gets progressively harder than the previous by adding new obstacles, such as timed and disappearing blocks, and making the levels longer with shorter time.
However, Mario is not the only "playable" character. You can have Peach or even Yoshi be the victim of Wario's pranks. Each character has various speeds. Peach is the slowest, which is suitable for beginners, and Yoshi is the fastest, which is suitable for advanced players. Mario is in the happy medium of the two.
So, anyway, what am I going with this? I was wondering if anyone would do a speedrun of Mario and Wario. I'd do this myself, but I have almost no experience in doing speedruns. ^_^;;
There could be two different speedruns. One is to collect all the stars on the way, and the other is just to get to the GOAL as fast as you can.
Yoshi would be the ideal character for the speedrun in either case.
Just thought it'd be an interesting speedrun.
