WarioWare, Inc.

WarioWare, Inc. is a company founded and managed by Wario and plays a central role in the WarioWare games. It is located in Diamond City, where Wario often meets with many of his friends. He and his friends develop the WarioWare games for Wario's company, including their main feature, the microgames. Despite the high success of the games, Wario usually refuses to pay his friends.

History
In WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, which retells the story of the company's making (in view of the fiction), Wario gets the idea to found a video game company in Diamond City when he watches Ken's report about the successful video game Pyoro. Thinking that he could also make profit with a video game, he mounts his Wario Bike and takes off in order to get a laptop. Soon, Wario's House, located on a mountain pillar, was replaced with the headquarters of WarioWare, Inc., the newly founded company. However, shortly after Wario starts working on the game with the laptop, he gets tired. Then, he comes up with the idea to phone his friends, who could help him on the game. All known people he calls agree, and in order to save money, he lets them develop a lot of microgames rather than one full game.

The first game of WarioWare, Inc. becomes a success, but Wario doesn't want to share the profit with his friends, so he tries to escape with the money in a rocket attached to the building. However, his attempt fails because the flying Dr. Crygor crashes into the rocket, causing it to fall into the sea with Wario and the money.

The WarioWare, Inc. headquarters isn't seen in later games again, except for WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!, where the building is seen in the menu screen and in the ending sequence. In games since WarioWare: Twisted!, Wario resides in his house, which lies on the ground rather than on the mountain pillar seen in the first two games. It isn't known what happens to the headquarters, but Wario still runs his business.

WarioWare: Twisted!, WarioWare: Touched! and WarioWare: Smooth Moves use special control schemes, and the games all result from quick ideas Wario gets after using certain objects. For example, after Wario's Game Boy Advance transforms into a tilt-sensitive handheld without buttons, thanks to Dr. Crygor's Gravitator, he quickly realizes that he can make money with microgames based on this control scheme. In WarioWare: Snapped!, which makes use of the Nintendo DSi's camera, Wario even expands his business to an amusement park named Wario Park, while WarioWare: D.I.Y. allows players to create their own microgames.

In WarioWare: D.I.Y., Mona, Jimmy T., Ashley, Orbulon, and 9-Volt leave WarioWare, Inc. in favor of Diamond Software. Dr. Crygor one day gets the idea to make a machine that makes microgames. Wario and Penny introduce the machine to the player, so the player can make microgames for the company.

However, it seems Mona and Jimmy T. will return to WarioWare Inc. for the upcoming WiiU game, Game & Wario. It is still unknown if 9-Volt, Ashley, and Orbulon will return as well.

A stage based on the WarioWare corporation is featured in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Name Differences
In the West, WarioWare, Inc. or just WarioWare is both the name of Wario's company and the video game series. However, in Japan his company is known as Wario Company (ワリオカンパニー Wario Kanpanī) and the games are called Made in Wario. Despite this, the name WarioWare, Inc. was already introduced in the Japanese version of the very first game of the series, prior to the western release. On Wario's staff card shown in the opening sequence, it reads "WarioWare, Inc." (the capitalization varies) in both the Japanese and western versions. In the Japanese version, this was an exception, though.

Employees
A few more characters also appear as hosts of stages, namely the Thang Family members, Fronk, and Jimmy P., but it is rather unlikely that these are actually employees. The sidekicks Red and Master Mantis aren't told to be microgame developers, so it is arguable that they are employees, too. Furthermore, Wario also goes through incarnations such as Wario-Man and Tiny Wario.
 * Wario (President, CEO)
 * Jimmy T.
 * Mona
 * Dribble and Spitz
 * 9-Volt (Left)
 * 18-Volt (Joined in WarioWare: Twisted!)
 * Dr. Crygor (Creator of MakerMatic)
 * Orbulon (Left)
 * Kat and Ana
 * Ashley and Red (Joined in WarioWare: Touched!; Left)
 * Mike (Unknown)
 * Young Cricket and Master Mantis (Joined in WarioWare: Smooth Moves)
 * Penny (Joined in WarioWare: Smooth Moves)