Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 is a game released for the Gameboy in 1994, and is a sequel to Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins. However, "Super Mario Land 3" is a somewhat misleading title, as the game is not really about Mario at all, but rather about Wario. Mario does, however, make a cameo at the end of the game, stealing the statue Wario worked so hard to collect. However, Wario does get his own house or castle (and, at the highest amount, a whole planet.) as a reward for saving Kitchen Island. Desiring a castle of his own, Wario sets out to find a lost golden statue of Princess Toadstool that he intends to ransom to her for the money to buy his own castle. Along the way he gladly collects any other gold coins and treasures he finds. The game is spent navigating a number of levels to reclaim his lost treasures, and has a significant level of replayability due to the branched path many of the levels take.

Wario starts out on Rice Beach, a small area of Kitchen Island. On the map screen, the player will notice that Kitchen Island is shaped like a skull, and a skull theme is present throughout the game. The save points are skulls, as are the level exits, secret doors, etc.

Worlds

 * Rice Beach
 * Boss: Spiked Koopa Troopa
 * Mt. Teapot
 * Boss: Bull
 * Sherbet Land
 * Boss: Penguin
 * Stove Canyon
 * Boss: Big Head
 * SS Tea Cup
 * Boss: Bobo
 * Parsley Woods
 * Boss: Giant Ghost
 * Syrup Castle
 * Boss: Genie

Enemies

 * Wanderin' Goom
 * Pirate Goom
 * Dropper
 * Pinwheel
 * Helmut
 * Pouncer
 * Penkoon
 * Dangerous Duck
 * Bucket Head
 * Floater
 * Pelican
 * Bird
 * Walrus
 * Rat
 * Flying Bomb
 * Slime
 * Mole
 * Ghost Goom
 * Thundercloud
 * Demon Bat
 * Fireballs
 * Gator
 * Boulder
 * Bee
 * Flying Chicken
 * Webber
 * Spiked Ball
 * Piranha Plant
 * Muncher
 * Porcupuffer

Sequels
Wario Land was massively popular and continues to inspire sequels to this day. The first, Wario Land II, was released four years after this game, in 1998. Wario Land 3 followed in 2000 for the Game Boy Color. Wario Land 4, the final Wario Land game for a Game Boy console (this one for the Game Boy Advance), was released in 2001. The latest in the Wario Land series, Wario Land: Shake It!, was released in 2007 for the Wii.

In addition, the original game received a makeover in the mid 1990s when it was re-released as Virtual Boy Wario Land for the now-defunct Virtual Boy gaming console.

As far as the Super Mario Land side goes, Wario Land was the final official entry in the Super Mario Land series, despite there being a "Super Mario Land 4" game circulating the Internet (which is a hack of an earlier game entitled Crayon Shin-Chan).