Oh! Yeah. That makes sense. These are Walkies! Walkies are some manner of little critter, which, to be honest, are more interesting due to the circumstances of their existence rather than anything about them as creatures! To start off, they are from WarioWare: D.I.Y., which is the game about making your own microgames, which can star literally anything.
However. HOWEVER! Don't you get any ideas now. I'm now so cheeky that I would post about something I made in a WarioWare game, claiming it to be a Mario entity. I'm not going to post about the smiling corn cob from Corn Smash, the first microgame I ever made. Walkies are different. Walkies... have a page on the Super Mario Wiki. They're catalogued. They're significant. In a way, they are much like Super Mario himself. I find them hard to tell apart from him sometimes.
Walkies (the game) is not in the base game of WarioWare: D.I.Y., but instead, was available as a free download, among other microgames made by various sources, and distributed by Nintendo officially! Walkies was one of a few developed by Nintendo Treehouse, and so is official, yet obscure, optional, western-exclusive content. It's rare to know about Walkies, let alone have played their game.
It's been quite a while since we've covered something mainly out of a desire to showcase its obscurity, I think! And Walkies are absolutely obscure. Not the most obscure entities in the Marioverse, certainly- I probably haven't even heard of the true most obscure ones yet!- but definitely one of the least cared about. Hold on, it's been a while since the last image. I need something eye-catching to keep your attention.
Excellent, that will do just fine. Watch out for that little fellow! So, what are Walkies? I want to discuss that! I want to go over everything we know about them as creatures, and help you become one of the world's leading experts on these things. By the end of this post, you'll probably care more about Walkies than whoever created their microgame, honestly. I bet that person hasn't thought about them in years... isn't that sad? Walkies on their own in the world...
The goal of Walkies (game) is to click the biggest Walkie (creature), to make it eat the smaller ones. Once you do this, you have won! So we know that Walkies are autotrophs, and there's no reason to assume they're not animals. They're cannibalistic, which cannot be said about most things with a Super Mario Wiki page! They come in different sizes, though it's unclear if the smaller ones may simply be younger than the bigger ones. They live in some kind of flat yellow plain with mountains in the background. Uh... they walk. They're red discs with black legs. I think that's everything! "Walkies" is a cute name for them. It sounds uncreative, but we here in Real World have an animal called "Fly", named after the fact that it flies. It is not the only animal that flies, but evidently it does so with the most gumption.
I like Walkies! That much is obvious. I wanted to show my appreciation. So I made one real! This is probably the first Walkie fanart and Walkie object to ever exist, but it certainly does not have to be the last, if you're so inclined.
Walkies (game) was released on June 28th, 2010. Now you know its birthday! Some of you reading this may be younger than Walkies. That's scary! Stop that!