Category talk:Microgames

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We're not going to make an article for every single Microgame (other than boss stages) right? --Bentendo 18:40, 27 March 2007 (EDT)

Never thought of that, ive already created a few non boss stage ones. Full Metal Moogle

There would be at least 1,000 more articles. As long as they're long enough.-- Aipom --

Kay! I guess it would be pretty fun! --Bentendo 18:44, 27 March 2007 (EDT)

All Microgames?

Now, I know that there is a page for almost every microgame, but should this category go on to every microgame? I would want this, as a category to view all microgames would be nice, but is this desirable? If so, I wouldn't start right away, as I have some other microgame related stuff I'm working on, but is this a good idea? Mad Hunter (talk) 15:00, February 2, 2020 (EST)

Microgame theme category organization (Sci-Fi, Strange, Animal, Nintendo)

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Current time: February 15, 2026, 11:36 (UTC)

So a while ago, I was looking at this category in preparation for implementing this proposal about creating categories for the microgame themes (otherwise the thing would be collecting dust in the list of unimplemented proposals, since the original proposer is, y'know, blocked for life), when I came to the surprise that the Category:Sci-Fi microgames and Category:Strange microgames, alongside the other themes of the OG WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, have already been made. With those names.

Even though the themes Sci-Fi and Strange have been renamed to (or at least, essentially replaced with) Fantasy and That's Life, respectively, as of WarioWare Gold.

That proves to be a bit problematic, especially given that when these categories were originally created, they stated to be categories for those microgames specifically in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, even though Sci-Fi and Strange were themes in WarioWare: D.I.Y. and D.I.Y. Showcase as well. It sounded like we would be splitting up these microgame themes per game, which was never specified as a requirement in the proposal.

And that sounded to be kind of true, as a couple days ago, I also noticed the existence of Category:Nintendo microgames, despite the fact that we already have a category for Nintendo microgames in Category:Nintendo Classics microgames; as well as today, I noticed the existence of Category:Animal microgames when we already have Category:Nature microgames. These categories seem to be specifically for the ones from the aforementioned WarioWare: D.I.Y. and D.I.Y. Showcase, because there would be no way we'd have redundant categories like these otherwise. Especially not for the Nintendo microgames.

So, here I propose a bit of a clean-up: we rename Category:Sci-Fi microgames and Category:Strange microgames to Category:Fantasy microgames and Category:That's Life microgames, respectively, and we merge Category:Animal microgames and Category:Nintendo microgames to Category:Nature microgames and Category:Nintendo Classics microgames, also respectively. Now, I can see why one would at least keep the current Sci-Fi, Strange, and Animal category split from Fantasy, That's Life, and Nature, given the former three sound like specific subcategories for the latter. So at least allow me to explain why moving/merging would be better in my opinion.

• Both Sci-Fi and Strange themes in Mega Microgame$, D.I.Y. and D.I.Y. Showcase already seem to feature microgames that are about fantasy and daily life, respectively. Sci-Fi in particular also features microgames themed after feudal Japan, which I wouldn't call anything related to science-fiction like the other Sci-Fi microgames. And Strange, ironically, has a lot of microgames that aren't actually all that strange at all. Off-line for instance is regarded as part of "strange", but it's about taking dried laundry from the clothesline, a typical chore. Similarly, all but two Nature Microgames in Mega Microgame$ feature animals, and so do all but two Nature microgames in Get It Together.
• From what I can gather, "Animal" is a conjectural name to gather the Nature games from D.I.Y. Showcase. Unlike D.I.Y., the Wario-Man Software Games section doesn't feature separate descriptions for each subsection, meaning no theme names to extract from, so the only theme clarifying has been done in the stage descriptions in the Game Blender, with Kat and Ana's stating "Get ready for games featuring animals in this stage!" However, if we're being literal, not only would the category be names "Animals microgames" (given that "Sports" also has always been pluralized, even in D.I.Y.), but all of Wario-Man's microgames in D.I.Y. Showcase would have to be put in a category called "Wario microgames" instead of being lumped in with Category:Anything Goes microgames, given that his stage description states "This stage includes all sorts of games featuring Wario!" But if Wario-Man's microgames are to be understood as Anything Goes anyway, why aren't Kat and Ana's understood as Nature?
  • EDIT: As it turns out, The Japanese version of D.I.Y. Showcase did in fact show theme names in the character's titles (see comments). The Japanese name for this so-called "Animal" theme is イキモノ (Ikimono, Living Things), which is the same name used for Nature in Mega Microgame$, solidifying these themes to be the exact same. Similarly, the Sci-Fi theme is referred to as SF, the "Wario" theme as ナンデモアリ (Nandemoari, Anything Goes), and the Nintendo theme, naturally, as ニンテンドー (Nintendō); which are also the same names used in the JP Mega Microgame$.
• As I said before, I can at least understand why one would rather have Sci-Fi, Strange, and Animal separate from Fantasy, That's Life, and Nature; however, I don't see that at all with Nintendo and Nintendo Classics, which are nearly identical in name and feature the same kind of microgames no matter how you look at it. Can't even say that "Nintendo Classics" features retro games only, given the existence of Splatoon 2 and Fire Emblem: Three Houses, very modern Nintendo titles by the time of Get It Together's release. Heck, in Gold, you already have a Nintendo Classics microgame based on the Nintendo Switch in Joy-Con Slide; the Switch was only one year old at that point.
• Not to mention that just "Nintendo" as the theme name was also the case in Mega Microgame$ already, as well as Mega Party Game$; and in this case, the theme was named "Nintendo Classics" in the Mega Microgame$ manuals too. This tells me that "Nintendo" and "Nintendo Classics" as theme names are 100% synonymous, meaning it makes even less sense to have these two split.

Proposer: Arend (talk)

Sci-Fi microgames category

Deadline: February 28, 2026, 23:59 (UTC)

Move to "Category:Fantasy microgames" (Support)

1. Arend (talk) Per proposal.
2. Keegster2 (talk) In addition to what Arend has already said, a number of Dribble and Spitz's microgames from Mega Microgame$! (plus one from D.I.Y. Showcase) appear in Gold, so they're already classifiable as "Fantasy" microgames. Per proposal.
3. Hewer (talk) Seems Fair.
4. Power Flotzo (talk) Per the others.
5. Camwoodstock (talk) Nintendo's fine treating these as the same category, seems only fair to us. Per proposal.

Don't move and create separate Fantasy microgames category (Oppose)

Strange microgames category

Deadline: February 28, 2026, 23:59 (UTC)

Move to "Category:That's Life microgames" (Support)

1. Arend (talk) Per proposal.
2. Keegster2 (talk) Really, what's so strange about applying eye drops, putting ketchup on food, and hammering in a nail? Clearly not much (although admittedly putting ketchup on a cup of soda is pretty weird), considering they're all That's Life microgames in Gold. Per proposal.
3. Hewer (talk) Makes sense.
4. Power Flotzo (talk) Per the others.
5. Camwoodstock (talk) Nintendo's fine treating these as the same category, again, seems only fair.

Don't move and create separate That's Life microgames category (Oppose)

Animal microgames category

Deadline: February 28, 2026, 23:59 (UTC)

Merge with "Category:Nature microgames" (Support)

1. Arend (talk) Per proposal.
2. Keegster2 (talk) What's the point in having Kat and Ana's microgames from D.I.Y. Showcase separated from their other nature-themed microgames just to keep them in their own conjecturally-distinct (and conjecturally-existent!) category? Per proposal.
3. Hewer (talk) Naturally.
4. Power Flotzo (talk) Per the others.
5. Camwoodstock (talk) Per our votes on the other ones, you hopefully get it by now.

Keep the two categories separate (Oppose)

Nintendo microgames category

Deadline: February 28, 2026, 23:59 (UTC)

Merge with "Category:Nintendo Classics microgames" (Support)

1. Arend (talk) Per proposal.
2. Keegster2 (talk) Personally, I don't think the term "classic" necessarily means that something is "retro" - I'd consider Get It Together! a 'classic' WarioWare game, even though it's less than 5 years old. Per proposal.
3. Salmancer (talk) Gold uses "Nintendo" as the short form of "Nintendo Classics" for its user interface (the scrolling text uses "Nintendo Classics" in full), another reason to say these two things are actually one thing said in two different ways.
4. Hewer (talk) Per.
5. Power Flotzo (talk) Per the others.
6. Camwoodstock (talk) Per our votes on the other ones, you hopefully get it by now.

Keep the two categories separate (Oppose)

Category:Comments microgames

What's the Japanese names for the Sci-Fi, Fantasy Strange, and That's Life groups? I feel like that might illuminate things further. — eviemaybe (talk) 21:34, February 14, 2026 (UTC)

From the footages I've seen, it looks like the Japanese version renamed/replaced Sci-Fi and Strange too: they were first called SF and ヘンナノ (Hen'nano, Weird), but later ファンタシー (Fantashī, Fantasy) and せいかつ (Seikatsu, Life).
Researching the Japanese versions also led me to discover that the theme names weren't ditched in D.I.Y. Showcase in that version, showing them in the same title space as the character names rather than the stage description. Dribble and Spitz shows SF next to it, while Kat and Ana shows イキモノ (Ikimono, Living Things); that one is the same name that is used in the JP Mega Microgame$; Get It Together uses the same word too, but in hiragana: いきもの (Ikimono, Living Things). rend (talk) (edits) 22:19, February 14, 2026 (UTC)

Since we're discussing the Nintendo (Classics) theme, once this proposal is done, we should decide whether or not 9-Volt's microgames from Move It! should be categorized as well. His stage is the one (or two, if Volcano Wario's stage counts as having the Anything Goes theme) stage from Move It! to have a clearly-defined microgame motif. Keegster2 (talk) 22:05, February 14, 2026 (UTC)

I mention this below, but I thought the proposal as written says we weren't going to extrapolate the genres of microgames in games that don't give microgames genres. Which means we should not do this. Salmancer (talk) 22:08, February 14, 2026 (UTC)

I've thought about that (as well as similar Nintendo and Anything Goes themes from Twisted, Touched, and Smooth Moves), but I think it's safer to leave it alone for now, given these games don't categorize their microgames by theme like Salmancer said. rend (talk) (edits) 22:31, February 14, 2026 (UTC)

It's come up in the Discord before, but honestly, we're pretty surprised the Wario microgames don't have a category. Considering especially how D.I.Y. Showcase handles things, "Microgames featuring Wario" does seem to be a perfectly reasonable category of them, even if it's one of the weirder ones for sure. ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 05:09, February 15, 2026 (UTC)

As I've stated before a couple times by now, I've found out that the Japanese version D.I.Y. Showcase actually does list themes for their stages (again, no idea why that's not the case in international versions). This includes Wario-Man's stage, which theme is known as ナンデモアリ (Nandemoari, Anything Goes), which is also what Anything Goes was called in the Japanese version of Mega Microgame$. Taking all that into account, that would mean that the "microgames featuring Wario" being lumped in the Anything Goes category is actually very accurate. rend (talk) (edits) 11:35, February 15, 2026 (UTC)

My understanding of the original proposal was that only things explicitly noted to be within a genre get categorized on this wiki as a genre, which would mean I wouldn't want the D.I.Y Showcase "Animal" microgames and "Wario" microgames in a microgame genre category at all. Salmancer (talk) 22:08, February 14, 2026 (UTC)

As it turns out, the Japanese version of D.I.Y. Showcase does in fact note specific themes, right next to the character name. No idea why the English version doesn't do that. "Animal" and "Wario" turn out to be the same as how Nature and Anything Goes are called in JP Mega Microgame$: イキモノ (Ikimono, Living Things) and ナンデモアリ (Nandemoari, Anything Goes) respectively. rend (talk) (edits) 22:27, February 14, 2026 (UTC)