| YOSHI |
 
In 1992, The NES was reaching the end of it's road as a sellable console. And at that time, Nintendo trickled out some final releases, and among them was this one - Yoshi - a Puzzle game based on the dinosaur helper from the SNES Game Super Mario World. Basically, one last grab a the "Puzzle" genre. I remmeber when it came out Nintendo was pushing this game pretty hard on TV with a claymation commercial that was actually a bit sparse.
In Yoshi, you are Mario at the bottom of the playfield, switching around 4 trays. These trays are used to capture Goombas, Piranha Plants, Boo Buddies, and those Octopus creatures. If you match them up, ,they dissappear, if they don't match, they stack. Periodically you'll get the bottom half and a top half of an egg. If you join the top and bottom you get a baby Yoshi, if you stack enemies in between and put a top over the enemies, you get a big Yoshi. Pretty simple premise. Yoshi of course I don't think sold too well. It was kind of late in the game and the puzzle-game hype that drove Tetris and Dr. Mario was dying off as we now were in the age of Doom and Super Mario World. There was one more game for the NES and the SNES that eeked out in 1994 - Yoshi's Cookie - that was a part of the NES's last breath on the market.Cat Piss and Swimming Lessons - My experiences As a kid, I took swimming lessons at the local rec center. Then when I got out I got a Hardees Chicken Biscuit and Hash Browns. Well, one morning, I also got this game with that well earned breakfast. Yoshi. Yoshi was another "pacer" between the more extreme and longer Nintendo games I was into. I would usually sandwhich it between rounds of Super Mario Bros. 3 at the time. It was one of the last games I got for my original Nintendo, and one of my multiple cat piss victims where one of our many moody cats decided to mark it as theirs. I might do a bit on reproduction labels on here someday. I have 2 games that need them I still have my original copy of Yoshi that I got in June 1993, cat-piss worn label and all, and it's still a nice puzzle game to pop in once in awhile and play for the fun of it. There's not really much more to say than that, as Yoshi came along the edge of me getting away from Video games and more into guitar. By the end of the next year, the NES would be collecting dust while I started working out my fingers in guitar magazines.VIDEOS
Let's Play Yoshi (on actual hardware, 2023) |
