Nintendo has had a lot of crazy ideas, like this missing official Waluigi game where you had to cut his toenails.
Throughout all these decades, Nintendo has made countless advertising experiments of the most crazy. One of the most incredible had to do with the presentation of Waluigi, one of its most famous characters. Because? Because Nintendo even released an official Waluigi game in which you had to do something a bit peculiar: cut your toenails.
The name of this crazy game was Waluigi’s Toenail Clipping Partyo Waluigi’s Foot Faultand its first mention dates back to Nintendo Power magazine, in the September 2000 issue. This unusual proposal was part of the Mario Tennis advertising campaign, Nintendo 64 title in which the character debuted. The magazine invited users to visit the waluigi.com website to try this game, offering the following description taken from that page:
Oh mama! It’s Waluigi!
It is very bad, sold Luigi’s underwear on eBay. And that raises an interesting question… Who bought it?
He’s skinny, he’s wicked, And he hates the color green! Yes, hoping to overthrow Mario’s supreme reign as king of video games, Wario has enlisted Waluigi’s help.. The big guy with the evil smile and burning hatred for good Luigi finally shows his ugly face in Mario Tennis And to celebrate the occasion, we’re giving purple its own website!
In www.waluigi.com you will find everything you need to know about your evil sidekick: photos, secret information and all the crazy things you could want. We also want to include online games, including Waluigi’s Toenail Clipping Party. It seems that everyone’s favorite mischievous mustache has neglected his personal hygiene, and it’s up to you to help him.
Cut the nails well and aim at the jar, or you’ll be left with botched cutouts and finger smudges all over your hard drive. Gross!
Unfortunately, if you now try to enter said website, you will be redirected to the official Nintendo page. Over the years, the community has not been able to rescue the gamealthough he has been able to see a record of files that were on the web during the time, with files that mention a browser flash game (toenails_coming.swf, toenails.swf o paint_the_lines.swf entre otros).
We are not surprised that Mario’s house decided to remove this curious piece from the network. In addition to the curious trend of the internet for feet, because of how this game represented Waluigi, whose feet are worth studying. Did you know this official game of Waluigi’s feet? Would you like to come back to life? Of course, this character does not stop starring in strange stories.
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