List of Yoshi video games


Yoshi is a video game franchise of platform games and puzzle games that is a spin-off of the Super Mario series published and produced by the Japanese gaming company Nintendo. The games have been developed by a variety of developers including Nintendo, Game Freak, Intelligent Systems, Artoon, its successor Arzest, and Good-Feel. Yoshi games have been released for Nintendo video game consoles and handhelds dating from the Nintendo Entertainment System to the current generation of video game consoles. Some of the original Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System games have been ported to Game Boy Advance or the Virtual Console.
The series revolves around Yoshi, a green dinosaur character. He was first introduced in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game released in 1990, Super Mario World, where Mario and Luigi can ride on him. The antagonists of the series are Baby Bowser, the young king of Koopas, and Kamek, a Magikoopa who was Bowser's caretaker as a child. The first Yoshi game was the Nintendo Entertainment System puzzle game released in 1991, Yoshi, which was developed by Game Freak. The first game in what is considered the main series, as well as the first to feature Yoshi in a playable main-character role, is the game released in 1995, , which introduces the universe staples which are used in many following games. These staples include colorful storybook graphics, and several gameplay elements. One of the earlier games in the series, Yoshi's Safari, differs heavily from the rest, as it is a light gun shooter game. The next game in the series is Poochy and Yoshi's Woolly World, a port of the Wii U game Yoshi's Woolly World, released in 2017 for the Nintendo 3DS. The latest game, Yoshi's Crafted World was released on the Nintendo Switch on March 29, 2019.

Video games

''Yoshi's Island'' series

Platform games

Puzzle games

Spin-offs

Cancelled games

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