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Yoshi
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Screenshot of Yoshi in Super Smash Bros. MeleeYoshi (Japanese: ???? Yosshii) is a fictional dinosaur from various Nintendo video games. Yoshies have very long, sticky tongues, and can swallow almost anything, even things that are much larger than they are. Just about everything they swallow is transformed into (or encased in) an egg, which they can throw as a weapon (or sometimes hatch into a baby yoshi). They prefer fruit, although they can and usually will eat other things, if necessary. Even though they have teeth, they are rarely seen or used.

Yoshi was originally known as Super Dragon Yoshi in Japan, though he is not actually a dragon of any kind. He is Mario's dinosaur friend, first appearing in Super Mario World for the Super Famicom in his Japanese release. His North American and European debuts came on the SNES in Super Mario World. Yoshi was created by Shigefumi Hino, a graphics designer and the director of Pikmin. The reason he was created was that shortly after Shigeru Miyamoto finished Super Mario Bros., Nintendo's design staff wanted Mario to ride a dino. That concept was considered technically impossible until the SNES was developed, though unofficial ports of Super Mario World to the NES have shown it may not have been.

Mario can ride Yoshi in Super Mario World.After that he gained popularity, starring in two more adventure games, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story; and three puzzle games: Yoshi's Cookie, the simply-titled Yoshi, and Tetris Attack. He can also be found in Mario Is Missing! and a few other games.

He is one of the characters in the original Nintendo 64 Super Smash Bros., and the GameCube sequel Super Smash Bros. Melee. Yoshi made a cameo in Super Mario 64, and was playable in Super Mario Sunshine. A baby Yoshi was obtainable as a partner in Paper Mario: The Thousand- Year Door, which could be named anything you wanted, and he was colored differently depending on how you battled.

Yoshi has attained a popularity almost as great as that of Mario himself. He appears in many different colors: green, yellow, red, pink, teal, orange, blue, purple, and black and white. The black and white Yoshies are rare, while green is the standard color. The king in the castle of World 7 in Super Mario Bros. 3 was transformed into a Yoshi by Ludwig Von Koopa on the Super Mario All- Stars SNES version, but he was transformed into a Piranha Plant on the original NES version. Yoshies inhabit many areas of the world from the Mushroom Kingdom to Isle Delfino and are, for some reason, all named Yoshi (similar to the Mr. Saturns of EarthBound). During the localization of Panel de Pon for the U.S., where the game was renamed Tetris Attack, Nintendo of America replaced the fairy-like characters with characters from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, with Yoshi stepping in for the Pon main character Lip. It is speculated that NOA did this because the Pon characters were considered too effeminate for the primarily male US video game audience. Because of these changes, the game is sometimes referred to as "Tetris A- Hack."

Yoshi in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's IslandYoshi's appearances in video games, usually sports, often portray him as an agile character. In Mario Kart games, Yoshi has very good acceleration, but is most likely to skid off the track. In Mario Tennis and Mario Power Tennis, he is a very fast tennis player. Yoshi is the only character without a third jump attack in the Super Smash Bros. series, and his trademark move is the swallow (originally seen in Super Mario World). His upward special move was throwing eggs. Yoshi's "egg- rolling" move was introduced in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Yoshi also made a few cameo appearances in the Legend of Zelda series, specifically in Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (alongside Mario). In the former game, he appeared as a doll item that Link must bring to a baby at the first town in Koholint Island. In the latter game, he was seen in a portrait hung in Hyrule Castle, next to the painting of Mario, in a room that is not accessible to the player and located near the room where Link meets Zelda.

In the Chinese language, ?? (yóux? in pinyin) means "game."

It is highly likely that the Japanese name for Yoshi (????, [yoS:i:]) was intended to rhyme with the Japanese pronunciation for another dinosaur- like creature, Nessie (????, [neS:i:] -- see SAMPA chart for pronunciation key).

Super Mario Advance 3 turned Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island into a Game Boy Advance game with six newly added levels.

One track in each Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (for GameCube) and the upcoming Mario Kart DS on the Nintendo DS are shaped liked Yoshies.

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Games
Nintendo Platform Key
Home consoles
NES Nintendo Entertainment System
SNES Super Nintendo Entertainment System
N64 Nintendo 64
GCN GameCube
Handheld consoles
GB Game Boy
GBC Game Boy Color
GBA Game Boy Advance
DS Nintendo DS
Super Mario World (1990: Japan, 1991: U.S., 1992: Europe) ? SNES
Yoshi (Mario & Yoshi) (1992) ? NES, GB
Super Mario Kart (1992) ? SNES
Mario Is Missing (1992) ? PC, SNES, NES
Yoshi's Cookie (1992) ? SNES, NES, GB
Yoshi's Safari (1993) ? SNES
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995) ? SNES
Tetris Attack (1996) ? SNES
Super Mario 64 (1996) ? N64
Yoshi's Story (1997) ? N64
Mario Kart 64 (1997) ? N64
Mario Party (1998: Japan, 1999: U.S. and Europe) ? N64
Mario Party 2 (1999: Japan, 2000: U.S. and Europe) ? N64
Mario Party 3 (2000: Japan, 2001: U.S. and Europe) ? N64
Mario Golf (1999) ? N64, GBC
Super Smash Bros. (1999) ? N64
Mario Tennis (2000) ? N64, GBC
Mario Kart: Super Circuit (2001) ? GBA
Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001) ? GCN
Super Mario Sunshine (2002) ? GCN
Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (2002) ? GBA
Mario Party 4 (2003) ? GCN
Nintendo Puzzle Collection (2003) ? GCN
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (2003) ? GBA
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (2003) ? GCN
Mario Party 5 (2004) ? GCN
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (2004) ? GCN
Mario Golf: Advance Tour (2004) ? GBA
Mario Power Tennis (2004) ? GCN
Mario Party 6 (2004) ? GCN
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) ? GCN
Yoshi's Universal Gravitation (2004) ? GBA
Super Mario 64 DS (2004) ? DS
Yoshi Touch and Go (2005) DS

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