Yoshi

Yoshi
Developer	Shigeru Miyamoto
Publisher	Nintendo
Platforms	see below
Released	1990-present
Added to Museum	See the Yoshi category

Yoshi is a character, and species, that is part of a multimedia franchise consisting of video games, television shows, movies, comics, and music.

Yoshi is a spin-off of, and also appears in some video games, comics, television shows, and films of the Super Mario series.

Yoshi has also appeared as a playable character in the Mario Kart series, the Mario Party series, the Mario sports series, the Super Smash Bros. series, and the latest game in the Dr. Mario series.

Fictional character biographies

The Yoshi are friendly dinosaurs from Dinosaur Island. Mario and Luigi rescued some of them who were trapped in eggs and rode on them in their quest to defeat Bowser, King of the Koopa.

Later, a powerful magikoopa named Kamek traveled back in time to when the twins were still babies, to try to prevent their constant thwarting of Bowser. He attacked the stork that was carrying the twins, but he only managed to kidnap Luigi, while Mario fell down to Yoshi Island. The Yoshis rescued Mario and later rescued his brother, and the babies were delivered to their parents.

However, the couple claims that they are not the parents of the babies, so the stork returns to take them to their real parents. Once again, Kamek tries to kidnap the babies, but only manages to capture Luigi, while Mario falls down to Egg Island. A group of Yoshis on the island rescue him, then manage to rescue Luigi and take both babies to their real parents.

After that, Kamek decides to take things further and kidnaps all of the babies in the world. Yoshi, Baby Mario, Baby Peach, and the stork team up to rescue the babies and return them to their parents.

Video games featuring Yoshi

Title	Developer	System	Release	Added to museum	Notes
Yoshi	Game Freak	NES Game Boy	1991	Not yet	A puzzle game.
Yoshi's Cookie	Tose	NES Game Boy SNES Wii	1992	Not yet	A puzzle game.
Yoshi's Safari	Nintendo R&D1	SNES	1993	Not yet	A light gun shooter.
Super Mario Land 2: Yoshi's Island	Nintendo EAD	SNES	1995	SF Mini: October 31, 2017 SNES: CE: March: 16,: 2018	A platform game. Despite the title, Yoshi are the playable characters.
Tetris Attack	Intelligent Systems	SNES Game Boy	1996	Not yet	A puzzle game, modified from Panel de Pon to contain a Yoshi theme.
Yoshi's Story	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo 64	1997	Not yet	A platform game.
Yoshi Topsy-Turvy	Artoon	Game Boy Advance	2004	Not yet	A platform game.
Yoshi Touch & Go	Artoon	Game Boy Advance	2005	Not yet	A platform game.
Yoshi's Island DS	Artoon	Nintendo DS	2006	Not yet	A platform game.
Yoshi's New Island	Arzest	Nintendo 3DS	2014	Not yet	A platform game.
Yoshi's Wooly World	Good-Feel	Wii U Nintendo 3DS	2015 2017	Not yet	A platform game.
Yoshi's Crafted World	Good-Feel	Nintendo Switch	2019	Not yet	A platform game.