Yoshi[a] is a fictional dinosaur who appears in video games published
by Nintendo. Yoshi debuted in Super Mario World (1990) on the Super
Nintendo Entertainment System as Mario and Luigi's sidekick. Yoshi
later starred in platform and puzzle games, including Super Mario
World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi's Story, Yoshi's Woolly World, and
Yoshi's Crafted World. Yoshi also appears in many of the Mario
spin-off games, including Mario Party and Mario Kart, various Mario
sports games, and Nintendo's crossover fighting game series Super
Smash Bros. Yoshi belongs to the species of the same name, which is
characterized by their variety of colors.Nintendo had wanted Mario to
have a dinosaur companion ever since the first release of Super Mario
Bros.; however, it was not possible because of the limitations of the
NES. The inspiration for Yoshi can be traced back further, to the
green dragon Tamagon in the 1984 video game Devil World: both are
green lizards that hatch from eggs and can eat enemies with their
large mouth, and also emit the same noise when they hatch. During the
development of Super Mario Bros. 3, Shigeru Miyamoto had a number of
sketches around his desk, including an image of Mario riding a horse.
Takashi Tezuka, a Mario series developer, speculated that Miyamoto's
love of horse riding as well as country and western themes influenced
Yoshi's creation. The concept of Mario riding a dinosaur also came
from the NES video game Excitebike, which featured people riding
motorcycles. He again wanted to feature Yoshi in Super Mario Bros. 3,
but was still unable to. Tezuka designed two power-ups (the frog suit
and raccoon tail) to make up for this limitation.Once the more
powerful Super NES was released, Miyamoto was finally able to
implement Yoshi into the series, putting Yoshi into the video game
Super Mario World. Yoshi proved to be popular in this debut, which
caused the next game in the series, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's
Island, to focus on the Yoshi species.
by Nintendo. Yoshi debuted in Super Mario World (1990) on the Super
Nintendo Entertainment System as Mario and Luigi's sidekick. Yoshi
later starred in platform and puzzle games, including Super Mario
World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi's Story, Yoshi's Woolly World, and
Yoshi's Crafted World. Yoshi also appears in many of the Mario
spin-off games, including Mario Party and Mario Kart, various Mario
sports games, and Nintendo's crossover fighting game series Super
Smash Bros. Yoshi belongs to the species of the same name, which is
characterized by their variety of colors.Nintendo had wanted Mario to
have a dinosaur companion ever since the first release of Super Mario
Bros.; however, it was not possible because of the limitations of the
NES. The inspiration for Yoshi can be traced back further, to the
green dragon Tamagon in the 1984 video game Devil World: both are
green lizards that hatch from eggs and can eat enemies with their
large mouth, and also emit the same noise when they hatch. During the
development of Super Mario Bros. 3, Shigeru Miyamoto had a number of
sketches around his desk, including an image of Mario riding a horse.
Takashi Tezuka, a Mario series developer, speculated that Miyamoto's
love of horse riding as well as country and western themes influenced
Yoshi's creation. The concept of Mario riding a dinosaur also came
from the NES video game Excitebike, which featured people riding
motorcycles. He again wanted to feature Yoshi in Super Mario Bros. 3,
but was still unable to. Tezuka designed two power-ups (the frog suit
and raccoon tail) to make up for this limitation.Once the more
powerful Super NES was released, Miyamoto was finally able to
implement Yoshi into the series, putting Yoshi into the video game
Super Mario World. Yoshi proved to be popular in this debut, which
caused the next game in the series, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's
Island, to focus on the Yoshi species.
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