Retro Yoshi Game Collection
7 total gamesThis game series centers around Yoshi, the friendly dinosaur from the Mario universe, as he embarks on platforming adventures where his signature abilities, like flutter jumps, ground pounds, and his extendable tongue for eating enemies and creating egg projectiles, are central to navigating levels and solving puzzles.
About the Yoshi Series
Yoshi is a series of platformer games, primarily developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo. It first appeared in the early 1990s, with its debut title launching on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The series typically features Yoshi as the main protagonist.
In a typical Yoshi game, players control Yoshi as he journeys through colorful worlds. The core gameplay revolves around Yoshi's unique abilities. He can flutter jump to extend his air time, allowing for more precise landings or reaching higher platforms. Yoshi's tongue is used to grab enemies, which he can then swallow. Once swallowed, Yoshi can transform these enemies into eggs. These Yoshi eggs can then be thrown with accuracy to hit other enemies, break blocks, or activate switches. Players often need to manage a supply of eggs, sometimes needing to find more enemies to swallow or specific items to create them. Many Yoshi games also incorporate collecting items, like fruit, coins, or hidden collectibles, which are often tied to scoring or unlocking secrets. The level design often encourages exploration and skillful use of Yoshi's moveset, like ground-pounding to reveal hidden paths or using flutter jumps in sequence to cross large gaps.
The focus remains on platforming challenges and utilizing Yoshi's distinct moveset to progress through each stage.
All Yoshi Retro Games
7 games available
Yoshi's Island DS
In Yoshi's Island DS, you guide a Yoshi to protect Baby Mario and other infants from Bowser's minions, navigating platforming challenges by fluttering, using your tongue to eat and spit out eggs, and utilizing the unique abilities of different baby characters.
Yoshi's Story
In Yoshi's Story, you control a Yoshi to navigate through distinct storybook pages, primarily by eating enemies and collecting fruit to reach the end of the level.
Yoshi's Universal Gravitation
In Yoshi's Universal Gravitation, you steer Yoshi through puzzle-filled stages by tilting the entire level, causing items and enemies to slide according to gravity, all to collect items and reach the exit.
Yoshi Touch & Go
In Yoshi Touch & Go, you guide a Yoshi running continuously forward, using the stylus to draw clouds to keep the baby Yoshi afloat and navigate obstacles, with the goal of reaching the end of each stage by managing its ascent and descent.
