First appearing in the 1992 Game Boy classic Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Wario came from Nintendo’s Research and Development 1 studio, a team working without much oversight from Mario ...

Here’s how it works. You can trace Wario’s roots back to 1989’s Super Mario Land. No, not the sequel in which he made his debut, but Gunpei Yokoi’s original, which took Nintendo’s ...