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MobyGames, Nintendo, (), is a fictional dinosaur (referred to as a "space dragon" in Super Mario Galaxy 2 .) who appears in video games published by Nintendo . His debut was in Super Mario World '' (1990) on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as Mario and Luigi 's sidekick (a role he has often reprised), and he later established his own series with several platform game|platform and Computer puzzle game|puzzle games, including '' Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island . He has also appeared in many of the spin-off Mario (series)| Mario games including the Mario Party (series)|Mario Party , the Mario Kart , and the Super Smash Bros. (series)| Super Smash Bros. series , as well as in other various Mario sports titles. Yoshi also appears in New Super Mario Bros. Wii '' (2009) as the characters' companion and steed, similar to his original debut role in Super Mario World . As with the names of several other characters in the Mario series, Yoshi is a common part of Japanese names (e.g., Yoshi da, Ki yoshi , etc.). Yoshis come in many different colors, though the original and most common color is green.

Origins

Shigeru Miyamoto stated that Nintendo had wanted Mario to have a dinosaur companion ever since Super Mario Bros . ; however, it was not possible because of the limitations of the Nintendo Entertainment System|NES . During the development of Super Mario Bros. 3 , Miyamoto had a number of sketches around his desk, including an image of Mario riding a dinosaur. Takashi Tezuka , a Mario series developer, speculated that Miyamoto's love of horse riding as well as country and western influenced Yoshi's creation. The concept of Mario riding a dinosaur also came from the NES video game Excitebike , which featured people riding motorcycle s. He again wanted to feature Yoshi in Super Mario Bros. 3 , but was still unable to. Tezuka designed two power-ups to make up for this limitation, the raccoon and frog power-ups. Once the more powerful Super NES was released, Miyamoto was finally able to implement Yoshi into the series, putting him into the video game Super Mario World . Yoshi proved to be popular in his debut, which caused the next game in the series, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island , to focus on his species.

The version of Yoshi seen in the Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros. film was made using a animatronic dinosaur. He was designed in the film by Dave Nelson. It had nearly 200 feet of cable and hundreds of moving parts inside of it, and was controlled by nine puppeteers. The body is cable-controlled, while the head is radio-controlled. Nelson described the overall process as being "difficult." The creation of Yoshi was handled by a company independent from the filmmakers.

Characteristics

Their social structure is developed and organized, as they are shown living together in settlements, having meetings and working together. Yoshi has many different abilities which are useful whenever Mario or another hero is riding him. Yoshi's special jump, called the flutter jump (first introduced in '' Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island ), allows him to wave his arms and his legs in the air to stay afloat, making his jumps longer and higher. His long tongue allows him to swallow many things (particularly small enemies) and use them to lay eggs which he can throw at targets to complete puzzles. If he eats something that is too big to swallow, such as a Koopa shell, he can spit it out. In Super Mario 64 DS, Yoshi can grab bunnies with his tongue, giving him access to the castle. In Super Mario Galaxy 2 , his tongue has further uses, such as pulling handles or swinging in midair. Yoshi can eat one of three special fruits to give him a special ability (represented by a temporary color change): a blue Blimp Fruit that allows him to blow air to fly upwards; a red Dash Pepper that causes him to run fast and scale up walls; and a yellow Bulb Berry that causes him to glow, lighting platforms that are only tangible when visible.

Another one of Yoshi's characteristics is the sounds he makes. In most games up to and including Mario Party 3 , his vocals consist of record-scratching noises for positive interactions and whistling noises for negative interactions. In '' Yoshi's Story , Super Smash Bros. , Mario Tennis , and almost every game since Super Smash Bros. Melee , his vocals consist of high-pitched baby-ish squeals backed with numerous unintelligible words and his own name. Because his name is one of his vocals, it is a common misconception that he talks by repeating it numerous times.

In Super Mario World , Super Mario Sunshine , New Super Mario Bros. Wii , and Super Mario Galaxy 2 , bongos are added to the level's background music whenever Mario or Luigi jump onto Yoshi.

Appearances

Yoshi made his debut in Super Mario World as a native dinosaur that Mario or Luigi could ride on in order to eat enemies and otherwise navigate Dinosaur Land more quickly and easily. This game spawned a prequel entitled '' Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island '' for the Super Nintendo in which the player could control Yoshi in order to keep Baby Mario out of harm's way as they advanced through the game. This led to a spin-off series of games including '' Yoshi's Safari for the SNES , Yoshi's Story for the Nintendo 64 , Yoshi Topsy-Turvy|Yoshi's Universal Gravitation for the Game Boy Advance , and a number of games for the Nintendo DS , including Yoshi Touch & Go , Yoshi's Island DS , and Super Mario 64 DS .

Although he was introduced on the SNES in 1990, Yoshi was also the star of two self-titled games for the original NES released in '92 and '93: Yoshi (video game)|Yoshi and '' Yoshi's Cookie , respectively. Both of these games were released for the Game Boy as well. He also appeared as a supporting cast member in Mario is Missing for NES, SNES and MS-DOS in 1993. Yoshi appeared in Super Mario 64 as a non-playable character who could be seen upon completion of the game. He also appeared in the Super Mario 64 DS|DS remake as a playable (and starring) character, and in Super Mario Sunshine where he could be ridden on by Mario in the same fashion as in Super Mario World . However in this game, he is portrayed as a tropical Yoshi who changes to different colors after eating different fruits. Yoshi appears in New Super Mario Bros. Wii , and his role in the game is very similar to his original role in Super Mario World . A number of different colored Yoshis can be obtained by hitting blocks throughout the game. He can then be ridden by characters in the game, though his color no longer represents special abilities. Yoshi also appears in the game Super Mario Galaxy 2 , where he can also float across the air for a limited period of time by fluttering his feet at an amazing speed. Power-ups allow him to run up walls; turn into a ballon; and glow, lighting platforms that are only tangible when visible.

In the Gamecube title Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door , Mario rescues a Yoshi egg that hatches and joins his team. The player can then name the Yoshi character. The color of the Yoshi changes depending on the amount of time that passes between rescuing the egg and the egg hatching.

Other appearances

Yoshi has appeared in nearly all of the Mario sports and spin-off games. He appears in every game of the Mario Kart series as a playable character (usually with a light weight). He also appears in every Mario Party game to date as a playable character. He has also made appearances in multiple Mario sports titles, including Mario Tennis , Mario Golf , Mario Super Sluggers , Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and Super Mario Strikers .

Yoshi is a playable character in all three titles in the Super Smash Bros. (series)| Super Smash Bros. series and is the subject of collectible items in the form of trophies. In these titles Yoshi is featured as a medium heavy character with quick movements and a long continuous second jump. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl , Yoshi's final smash is called the "Super Dragon" and by using it, he grows wings and is able to breathe fire and fly for a short time. In the Subspace Emissary, Yoshi is awakened from his sleep by various subspace enemies and teams up with Link (Zelda)|Link and other Smash Bros. characters to defeat Tabuu and save the world.

Yoshi has made cameo appearance|cameo appearances in other video games. In Super Mario Galaxy , an image of his head appears as a wooden planet that Mario can visit in the Space Junk Galaxy . Yoshi made a cameo appearance in '' Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest '' as one of the competiters in Cranky's Video Game Heroes show. He also made a few cameo appearances in The Legend of Zelda| The Legend of Zelda series , specifically in '' The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time . He appears in two Metal Gear games for the Nintendo systems: Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes| The Twin Snakes and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater| Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D . In The Twin Snakes'', he and Mario are dolls that stand on a desk. If you shoot him, he'll yell "Yoshi!". In Snake Eater 3D , Yoshi dolls replaces all the cartoon-like frogs, Kerotans, which that appear in all other versions of Metal Gear Solid 3 . Shoot all of them will earning you the Yoshi rank at the end of the game.

Appearances in other media

An animated series followed Super Mario World (TV series)|Super Mario World , bearing the same name, and was similar in plotline to the previous series, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 , and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show , but with a different setting. The show featured Yoshi as a regular character, voiced by Andrew Sabiston . Yoshi was featured as a young dinosaur who often talked in Grammatical person|3rd person , and in the final episode of the Super Mario World series entitled Mama Luigi , he was portrayed as a baby Yoshi that Luigi came across in a "? " block a short while after a Fire Sumo made him fall into a crack in the ground. He was featured in the Nintendo Adventure Books . He is also featured prominently in the Super Mario Adventures comic serial printed in Nintendo Power . Yoshi was also featured in the Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros. movie. In the movie, Yoshi took the form of a realistic animatronic dinosaur. In the movie, Yoshi was Bowser (character)|King Koopa's pet and is referred to as a "Throw-Back" by Koopa; he joined Daisy's side and eventually protected her with his own body against a stabbing. In the end, he is seen alive with Princess Daisy (Nintendo)|Princess Daisy and Toad (Mario)|Toad .

Reception

Yoshi is one of the more recognizable characters in the Mario series. Yoshi is also featured in a myriad of Mario merchandise; he is the subject of toys, shirts, and figures. Yoshi also appeared in two of the Happy Meal|McDonald's Happy Meal promotions of Mario toys which only starred Mario , Donkey Kong (character)|Donkey Kong , and Yoshi himself. In a poll conducted in 2008, Yoshi was voted as the third-favorite video game character in Japan, with Cloud Strife and Mario placing second and first, respectively. Gametrailers has created a special tribute video for Yoshi for the release of Super Mario Galaxy 2 .

Yoshi ranked at #1 on WhatCulture's list of "20 Top Video Game Sidekicks Of All Time", stating "there is no greater joy than hitting a question block and finding a Yoshi egg" and that he is as fun as possible. Cheat Code Central listed Yoshi as the third best sidekick in video games, commenting that he's one of the most adorable video game characters. Screw Attack listed Yoshi as 2nd on their top 10 Mario characters. GameSpy ranked Yoshi as the seventh best videogame sidekick, listing him over Luigi by reasoning only Yoshi can pull off being green and still be cool.

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