Yoshi

by Nintendo

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00004SVYT
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,415 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Classic Yoshi Puzzle Game! Help Yoshi Stack-up Enemies & Capture Them In Eggs! For The NES!

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Tetris like game, November 14, 2001

By 

Jeff Johnson "Jeff Johnson" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoshi (Video Game)

This is a pretty good game, much like Tetris. There is an original concept though, because little monsters drop down like blocks. They drop down, you do not turn them, instead Yoshi is at the bottom of the screen holding up four plates (to collect the monsters), and you move him around, and pivot these plates to collect the monsters. Its not that simple though, the only way to kill these monsters is to capture them into egg halves that drop down. First get a lower half of an egg, drop a few monsters onto the half egg, then drop the top half of the egg. Then the eggs, squeeze together killing the enemies! Like a verticle Tetris!

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pleasant game for those rainy afternoons, February 4, 2004

By 

B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yoshi (Video Game)

This is actually a fairly addicting puzzle game. Yoshi, not the same as Yoshi's Cookie, was released back in the NES's final days and didn't receive much notice. Okay so it got SOME notice, mostly just to compare it to Tetris (something that seems to happen to many puzzle games).

Compared to other puzzle games, I think Yoshi stands up quite well. It's a fine puzzle game. I can't think of anything else to say. Okay, I'll tell you a story.

I wanted this game REALLY bad when it was first released. So I went to Delaware with my mom, and we bought the game at a store called Woolworths, which is now out of business (in fact, I think the whole company is out of business). Before they went out of business, they reduced the price for all their video games, and in doing so, made many gamers very happy. Unfortunately, this game was still pretty expensive which made the trip to Delaware not as satisfying as we had hoped. But I still bought Yoshi that day. Sorry for boring you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my all-time favorites, September 10, 2008

By 

J-Rey "Reyzor Edge" (Somewhere in the Indian Ocean) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Yoshi (Video Game)

I'm a fan of many types of video games. My favorites include the franchises God of War, Castlevania, and Final Fantasy. Yoshi might seem a little out of place in a collection with God of War, Metal Gear Solid and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, but I will admit I love this game. I've played it ever since I was a kid when it first came out. It is the one of the few games that I keep going back to. I've read reviews saying it is a Tetris clone and it is unoriginal. I disagree with those statements especially the one about it being unoriginal. If someone can tell me of a game where the columns are switched from the bottom I will take it back. And it has about as much similarity to Tetris and Contra does to Super Mario Bros.
Anyway, it is simple and fun. There aren't any chain reactions to be set up like in Dr. Mario or Puzzle League/Tetris Attack/Panel de Pon. You match two like characters vertically and they disappear or you sandwich a bunch of pieces between the top and bottom halves of a Yoshi egg and get rid of them that way. You move Mario left and right and press a button to make him turn around making two columns switch places. So unlike other falling block games you control the pieces that have already landed rather than the falling pieces.
The gameplay is not as deep as most of the other matching games. But it is truely relaxing and I've never become tired of it. I'm a big Dr. Mario fan but most of the time I prefer this game.
If you are a fan of Nintendo's other matching games then you will probably like this one too.