Take a stance on me.

The first WarioWare is such a strange, singular game it feels like it hasn’t aged at all.

I had a chance to play a few of the microgames at an event recently.

A cowboy character lassos a pink chick in an egg. The cowboy looks sinisterly happy. It’s WarioWare. I have no idea what’s going on.

Picking through a range of the microgames at random, the stances kept changing.

But the go-anywhere, do-anything stylings of the series shine through.

It remains coherent, in a funny way, by embracing complete incoherence.

A humanoid cat character in WarioWare squats over the top of a large fish beneath it. The instructions on the screen are to squeeze. Yep. You heard that right. I suppose the Khajit have to pick up work where they can!

Sometimes, the simplest games were the best.

It’s barely a game, but I always found it a treat.

Elsewhere, a game that used a kind of chicken stance saw me pecking worms out of the ground.

Some sort of crouching creature is in front of us, showing us what appears to be its butthole, while on the screen the WarioWare instructions are to draw. But what? Hmm, bad choice of words. What on earth is going on.

The most interesting microgames, though, used the funny little IR sensor that comes with the Joy-Cons itself.

This is what I love about WarioWare games - everything gets an airing.

It’s worth saying, too, that Move It!

Imagine Thomas the Tank Engine, but the face on the train is Wario’s, and it also has human arms jutting out from it. That’s what this image from the new WarioWare game is all about. Sleep tight!

requires a lot of physical movement, and as a person with MS, I was done-in relatively quickly.

A WarioWare Move It! screenshot showing a scene from an old Mario game, where Mario is turned into a racoon and the instructions on the screen are to shake your tail. But I don’t have a tail, Nintendo! Whatever am I to do!

A WarioWare Move It! screenshot showing three sumo wrestlers. Two have their legs lifted up like dogs about to pee on a lamp post. The third sumo must copy them.