The Museum of Screens Research Team: That one Waluigi game

The Research Team is a serie of blog post about preserving the history of web game that are no more. Here come a time in every blogger interested in the web and strange stuff’s life when they have to talk about the purple elephant in the Room: The Waluigi toenail clipping Flash game. The name alone grosses me out so I won’t post any other screenshots. But trust me it’s gross. It’s toenail on Waluigi’s bare foots. It sounds fake, but it has been for years the Holy Grail of Flash lost media. So, here I am, adding a pointless blog post to the pile. But I am here to give my two cents on the matter, because believe me: I think the game was never released. If the game was indeed real, it would have been huge: It would be the first and only official Waluigi game. Okay, just a Flash minigame for the release of Mario Tennis, but still. However, it sounds made up. Come on, think about it: an official Nintendo game where you have to clip Waluigi’s toenails and collect them in a jar. But there is…