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WarioWare: Twisted! (2004)

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WarioWare: Twisted!, known in Japan as Mawaru Meido in Wario (Japanese: まわる メイドインワリオ, lit. Turning: Made in Wario), is a video game for the Game Boy Advance, developed by Nintendo SPD with Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. It was released on October 14, 2004 in Japan; May 19, 2005 in Australia; and May 23, 2005 in North America. The second game in the WarioWare series and the seventh in the Wario series overall, Twisted! was the last Wario game to be released on a Game Boy family system.

Wario and his friend Dr. Crygor invent Game Boy Advance games and units that only react when tilted around. The game follows the WarioWare formula with a variety of games that last for only a few seconds. The cartridge utilizes a gyro sensor and players must spin and twist in order to play the games.

Twisted! was critically acclaimed and has won numerous awards. Reviewers found the gyro sensor to be innovative and adding to the gameplay aspect.

It is one of only two Game Boy Advance games to include force feedback, the other being Drill Dozer.

The Twisted cartridge has a built-in gyro sensor and rumble feature (for feedback during rotation). Most of the microgames are played by rotating the entire handheld device. The gyro sensor uses a piezoelectric gyroscope developed by NEC to detect angular movement.

Because the game automatically calibrates the gyro sensor when the game is turned on (and after every "micro-game"), it works with both top-loading slots (like the Game Boy Advance) and bottom-loading slots (like all other models after the original GBA: Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Micro and Nintendo DS Lite). The manual states that Twisted! is not compatible with the Game Boy Player; although the game loads as normal, players would have to carry and tilt the connected GameCube console and use its controller for button presses, thus it is simply not practical.

Despite initially being announced for a European release, WarioWare: Twisted! has never been released in Europe.

After its Australian and North American releases, WarioWare: Twisted! was originally scheduled to be released in Europe on June 24, 2005. It was later delayed to September 2005, then to February 24, 2006, then to December 8, 2006. Nintendo of Europe later changed its release date to "TBD" on the company's website.[citation needed] In the January 2008 issue of the Official Nintendo Magazine, in the "Ask Nintendo" section, a representative for Nintendo of Europe stated that the delay was because Twisted! was still undergoing the compulsory LGA testing and approval for Europe. Near the end of 2008, however, with still no release in the region, Nintendo removed the page for the game from its European website, following the discontinuation of the Game Boy Advance.

Contrary to a popular rumor that the lack of a European release is due to the Game Boy Advance's gyroscope using mercury, it uses a piezoelectric gyroscope that does not contain mercury. European copies of the 2008 Wii game Super Smash Bros. Brawl list the title in the GBA section of the included database of Nintendo games as "Not released".

WarioWare: Twisted! has an aggregate 88/100 rating on Metacritic. Craig Harris from IGN channel named Twisted! the No. 1 GBA game of all time, and gave it a rating of 9.5/10. Jake Parr from Nintendo Life gave the game a rating of nine out of ten stars.

『まわるメイドインワリオ』は、2004年10月14日に任天堂より発売されたバラエティーゲーム。アメリカでは"WarioWare TWISTED!"の名称で2005年5月23日に発売。ヨーロッパでは一旦2006年発売と発表されたものの、発売には至らなかった。

『メイド イン ワリオ』の基本システムを踏襲しながらも、カートリッジに回転センサーを搭載しゲームボーイアドバンスを回転させることによる斬新な操作体系を持つ作品である。なお、このセンサーは傾きを検知する物ではなく本体の回転を検知する物であるため、ゲームボーイアドバンスとゲームボーイアドバンスSPとゲームボーイミクロ（およびニンテンドーDSとニンテンドーDS Lite）におけるスロットの方向の違いを吸収する特殊な設定を必要としない。この作品を以って、『スーパーマリオランド3 ワリオランド』から10年続いた『ゲームボーイシリーズ』における『ワリオシリーズ』のゲームソフトの開発は終了した。

平成16年度文化庁メディア芸術祭エンターテインメント部門で大賞を受賞した。

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