Yoshi (video game)

Yoshi
North American NES box art
Developer(s)Game Freak
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Satoshi Tajiri[1]
Producer(s)
Designer(s)Satoshi Tajiri
Artist(s)Ken Sugimori[2]
Composer(s)Junichi Masuda
Series
Platform(s)Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy
ReleaseNES
  • JP: December 14, 1991
  • NA: June 1992
  • EU: December 10, 1992
Game Boy
  • JP: December 14, 1991
  • NA: July 10, 1992
  • EU: December 17, 1992
Genre(s)Puzzle
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Yoshi,[a] known as Mario & Yoshi in PAL regions, is a puzzle video game developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo. It was released for the NES and Game Boy platforms. Both versions were first released simultaneously in Japan on December 14, 1991, and released in all other regions the following year.

In Yoshi, the player is tasked with clearing monsters from the on-screen playing field. The monsters fall in from the top of the screen to build vertical stacks; the player must prevent a stack from growing too high such that it exits the play field. In order to do so, the player swaps and moves the stacks about such that falling monsters collide with identical monsters stationed atop the stacks, causing them to be removed from play. Yoshi offers both a scoring-focused single-player mode and a competitive two-player mode.

  1. ^ Peterson, Helen (November 15, 1999). "King of Craze Too Shy For Spotlight Pifather Is an Introvert". Daily News. Mortimer Zuckerman. Archived from the original on August 15, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
  2. ^ "Game Freak Director Junichi Masuda on the Making of Yoshi and Pokemon". May 25, 2019. Archived from the original on January 9, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2021.


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