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Konami Wai Wai World

Konami Wai Wai World is a 1988 platformer video game developed and published by Konami for the Family Computer. Released only in Japan, the name, "wai wai" is a Japanese onomatopoeia expressing a noisy or boisterous atmosphere. The game starred a variety of characters pulled from other Konami games and franchises of the time. A sequel, Wai Wai World 2: SOS!! Parsley Jō, was released for the Famicom in 1991.

Gameplay
The player starts the game as Konami Man and can switch between Konami Man and Konami Lady. Subsequently, the player uses a key to save that game's star character, who then becomes playable. Each character has different abilities to begin with as well as ones they can eventually gain. The player ventures through these first six levels in a sort of nonlinear fashion with gameplay very similar to the original Castlevania games. After these stages are completed, the player plays through a scrolling space shooter stage and then a linear final stage. The player can regularly visit the lab of Dr. Cinnamon (from the TwinBee series), who gives the player the game's character profiles and refills energy when needed. Through his lab, the player can talk to Saimon, Dr. Cinnamon's brother, who can resurrect any defeated characters at the cost of 100 bullets per character during the game. ==Music==
Music
The music during gameplay depends on which character the player is playing as. Each character has their own music, which serves as their theme song. Besides Konami Man, Konami Girl and Moai, all the other characters use music from the Konami games they starred in. The different boss music in the game is also taken from Konami games in which the level is based. Wai Wai World 1&2 Sound Collection was released on a soundtrack CD on May 19, 2014 in Japan and was published by Eg Music Records and D4 Enterprise. ==Mobile phone version==
Mobile phone version
The mobile phone version of Wai Wai World omits Mikey and King Kong due to licensing issues. They are replaced with Upa (from Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa) and a giant Penta (the protagonist from Antarctic Adventure, and father of Pentarou), with their respective stages being a Candy stage and an Antarctic stage. ==References==
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