WarioWare: Twisted!

WarioWare: Twisted!, known as Mawaru Made in Wario (まわるメイド イン ワリオ Mawaru Meido in Wario, lit. "Turning Made in Wario") in Japan, is the third game in the WarioWare series. It is one of only a few Game Boy Advance games to use a motion sensor, another being Yoshi Topsy-Turvy. It is also one of the only two Game Boy Advance games to use a Rumble Feature, the other being Drill Dozer. The gameplay often involves moving the Game Boy Advance rather than actually pressing the buttons. This can cause a wide variety of wacky mini-games, including ones where the player must make Wario move forward by twisting the Game Boy in the direction that he needs to go. Though it was announced for release there, the game was not released in Europe.

Story
While Wario is playing Avoid-A-Roid on his Game Boy Advance, he loses and, in frustration, tosses the system around, heavily damaging it. He's immediately horrified when he sees the damage, but gets the idea to see if Dr. Crygor can fix it. At his lab, Dr. Crygor tosses the Game Boy Advance into his new invention, The Gravitator, which creates a bunch of new handheld systems with no buttons. He explains that the system is controlled through rotation, and Wario starts to play it. Soon, Mona and 9-Volt enter the lab and start to play with the systems, quickly enjoying it. This gives Wario the idea to market and sell the handheld system, with the dream of making tons of cash from it.

Microgames
With 223 microgames, WarioWare: Twisted has the most microgames out of the entire WarioWare franchise. Each microgame has three levels of difficulty, with their speed increasing after the third level is complete. The microgames are organized via character and their respective microgames appear in their stages. The exception to this is Fronk, who has nine microgames that can appear at any point.

Souvenirs
There are 139 different souvenirs in the American and European releases of WarioWare: Twisted!, though the Japanese release has two exclusive souvenirs (Mushroom and Mochitsuki Set). The souvenirs are categorized using seven different sets, with each set hosting different varieties of souvenirs: Records, Instruments, Figurines, Games, Doodads, Toys, and Other. The souvenirs vary in use, with some having minor interactivity while others are full minigames.

Staff
WarioWare: Twisted! was developed as a co-production between Intelligent Systems and Nintendo SPD Group No.1. As with most of the series' games, Yoshio Sakamoto is a producer (alongside Ryoichi Kitanishi) and Goro Abe is the chief director, with Osamu Yamauchi and Teruyuki Hirosawa as other directors.

European Release
In 2005, when the game was released in Australia and America, Nintendo announced the game for release in Europe. The company later announced that the game's release was delayed because it was still undergoing compulsory LGA testing to ensure its safety. Three years later, in 2008, the Game Boy Advance was discontinued. The page for WarioWare: Twisted! on the Nintendo of Europe Website had been removed as well. In the European version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, when it is mentioned on the Chronicle, the game is marked as "Not Released", indicating the game was cancelled in Europe, possibly because the game failed its safety testing. Even the game possibly not passing the test, it received good reception.

Trivia

 * The box art of the game shows Wario holding a Game Boy Advance SP, but in the game they never use an SP. Instead they use the original Game Boy Advance.
 * In the Guinness World Record 2010 Gamer's Edition, WarioWare: Twisted! was listed as having the most minigames in a single video game, 223.