If there are three guarantees in life, it’s death, taxes, and the internet’s enduring obsession with Waluigi.
For over a decade, the internet has circulated a meme about a mythical lost Nintendo game for the N64 called Waluigi’s Taco Stand. Like all memes, it’s hard to say exactly who started it, but the internet seems to agree it originated from the GameFAQs forums around 2002.
This week, the ancient meme resurfaced when ROM hacker Kaze Emanuar posted a video of a “lost N64 commerical” for Waluigi’s Taco Stand. Several commenters claimed it looked just like an authentic N64 advert from the 90s. Having been too young to remember this myself, I sought confirmation by sending the video to our News Editor Tom Phillips for a second opinion. He said it did look authentic, based on other videos he had seen “on the Youtube”. Sure thing, Tom.
LOST N64 COMMERCIAL (WALUIGIS TACO STAND 64) Watch on YouTube
The advert Kaze created was impressive enough, but the meme didn’t stop there, as he posted another video showing a cartridge version of Waluigi’s Taco Stand. Complete with a box, stickers and an instruction manual, it’s an incredible replication of an N64 game’s packaging. In the video, Kaze even boots up the game on an N64 and plays it for a few minutes.