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Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
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First release | Yoshi December 14, 1991 |
Latest release | Yoshi's Crafted World March 29, 2019 |
Parent series | Mario |
Yoshi is a video game series developed and published by Nintendo. It is a spin-off of the Mario franchise. The games, primarily consisting of platform games and puzzle games featuring the titular character, have been developed by a variety of developers including Nintendo, Game Freak, Intelligent Systems, Artoon, its successor Arzest, Good-Feel and Bullet-Proof Software. Yoshi games have been released for Nintendo video game consoles and handhelds dating from the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) to the current generation of video game consoles. Some of the original NES and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) games have been ported to Game Boy Advance or the Virtual Console (both, in the case of Super Mario World ). [1] [2]
The series revolves around Yoshi, a race of dinosaur-like creatures. They are first introduced in 1990 in the SNES game Super Mario World, where Mario and Luigi can ride on him. [3]
The first Yoshi game was the Nintendo Entertainment System puzzle game released in 1991, Yoshi , [3] which was developed by Game Freak. [4] The first game in what is considered the main series, as well as the first to feature Yoshi in a playable main-character role, is the game released in 1995, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island , which introduces staples include colorful storybook graphics, and numerous gameplay elements, serves as a prequel to the Super Mario series alongside its sequels, where Yoshis traverse levels with Baby Mario, Luigi and other characters. The antagonists of this sub-series are Baby Bowser, the young king of the Koopas, and Kamek, a Magikoopa who was Bowser's caretaker as a child; they recur in other Yoshi games without said Mario characters.
Yoshi's Story , released for the Nintendo 64 in 1997, took a more puzzle orientated approach was later followed by the spin-offs Yoshi's Universal Gravitation and Yoshi Touch & Go , released on the Game Boy Advance and DS respectively. The next mainline game in the series was Yoshi's Woolly World , originally released for the Wii U in 2015 and later the 3DS in 2017. The latest game, Yoshi's Crafted World , was released for the Nintendo Switch in 2019.
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Original release date(s): [5] | Release years by system: 1995 - Super Nintendo Entertainment System [5] 2002 - Game Boy Advance [6] 2011 - Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console (GBA version; Ambassador Program exclusive) 2014 - Wii U Virtual Console (GBA version) [7] 2019 - Nintendo Classics (SNES version) 2023 - Nintendo Classics (GBA version) |
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Original release date(s): [10] | Release years by system: 1997 - Nintendo 64 [10] 2007 - Wii Virtual Console [11] 2016 - Wii U Virtual Console [12] [13] 2021 - Nintendo Classics [14] |
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Original release date(s): [16] | Release years by system: 2004 - Game Boy Advance [16] |
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Original release date(s): [18] | Release years by system: 2005 - Nintendo DS [18] 2015 - Wii U Virtual Console [19] |
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Original release date(s): [21] | Release years by system: 2006 - Nintendo DS [21] 2015 - Wii U Virtual Console [19] |
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Original release date(s): | Release years by system: 2014 - Nintendo 3DS [23] |
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Original release date(s): | Release years by system: 2015 - Wii U [25] 2017 - Nintendo 3DS |
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Original release date(s): [4] [29] | Release years by system: 1991 - Nintendo Entertainment System [4] 1991 - Game Boy [29] 2007 - Virtual Console [30] |
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Original release date(s): [31] [32] | Release years by system: 1992 - Nintendo Entertainment System [31] 1992 - Game Boy [32] 1993 - Super Nintendo Entertainment System [34] 2008 - Wii Virtual Console [35] |
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Original release date(s): [38] | Release years by system: 1993 - Super Nintendo Entertainment System [38] |
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Original release date(s): [40] [41] | Release years by system: 1995 - Super Nintendo Entertainment System [40] 1996 - Game Boy [41] |
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Original release date(s): [43] Cancelled | Release years by system: Cancelled - Nintendo 64 [43] |
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Original release date(s): [44] Cancelled | Release years by system: Cancelled - Game Boy Advance [44] |
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Game | Year | Units sold | Metacritic |
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Yoshi's Island | 1995 (SNES) 2002 (GBA) | 4 million (SNES) [45] | 91/100 (GBA) [46] |
Yoshi's Universal Gravitation | 2004 | 60/100 [47] | |
Yoshi Touch & Go | 2005 | 73/100 [48] | |
Yoshi's Island DS | 2006 | 2.91 million [49] | 81/100 [50] |
Yoshi's New Island | 2014 | 2.06 million [51] | 64/100 [52] |
Yoshi's Woolly World | 2015 | 1.37 million [53] | 78/100 [54] |
Yoshi's Crafted World | 2019 | 3.35 million [55] | 79/100 [56] |
Reception toward Yoshi games has been largely positive. Yoshi's Island is the most well-received entry, holding a critic score of 91/100 on the review aggregation website Metacritic, the highest for any Yoshi game on the site. Conversely, Yoshi's Universal Gravitation is the worst-received title, holding a critic rating of 60/100 on the same site. [57]