WARIO LAND: SUPER MARIO LAND 3 (Game Boy, 1994)

 

Gonna be completely honest here: for actual decades, I always saw Wario as being in mid-air and closer to the camera in this image. It wasn't until recently that I realized that he's on the ground and everything else is simply larger than I assumed.

“Repeat after me: I'm the bad guy in Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, where being bad is good, and greed is good!”

- Wario, TV commercial

SUPER MARIO LAND 2: 6 GOLDEN COINS (Game Boy, 1992)

“Obey me, Wario...I am your master, Mario is your enemy!

Don’t let Mario get the 6 Golden Coins...don’t let Mario reach the palace…

Obey Wario...DESTROY MARIO!”

- Wario, hypnotizing the viewer in theTV commercial

 

SUPER MARIO LAND (Game Boy, 1989)

An adventure so epic Mario has to duplicate himself twice on the box!

“Welcome, and enter the center

Of my Super Mario adventure

A girl is trapped on the other side of town

So I'm moving in leaps and bounds

Folks around my way think I'm strange

But there's a villain to blame

Even my ma, she thinks I'm crazy

But I've got to rescue Daisy”

- Ambassadors of Funk, “Supermarioland”

Pretend there's a green filter over every screenshot for the full Game Boy effect
(source for all images is mariowiki.com, as usual)

The Facts

Release Date: April 21, 1989 (Japan), July 31, 1989 (USA)

Original Platform: Game Boy

Director: Satoru Okada

Producer: Gunpei Yokoi

Also Playable On: Virtual Console (3DS)