Yoshi's Island

Green dinosaur's game

Yoshi's Island is a 1995 Nintendo platform video game for the Super Nintendo, featuring the dinosaur Yoshi carrying baby Mario through colorful levels.

The game's distinctive hand-drawn art style and gameplay mechanics—including egg-throwing and flutter-jumping—made it influential.

The title also refers to the fictional island setting and has become shorthand for the franchise it spawned.

Related

SNES · platformer · diaper · crying · colorful · pastel · crayon · art style · world map · dinosaur · green · tongue · swallow · collectibles · flowers · stars · bonus game · dizzy

Opposites
visual aesthetic

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Brutal fantasy action game

Gears of War · Mortal Kombat · Call of Duty · Resident Evil · The Last of Us

tone and atmosphere

Yoshi's IslandDark Souls

Brutal fantasy action game

Castlevania · Metroid · Resident Evil · Silent Hill

Family

Yoshi, Island, islands, islander, islanders, isle, isles, islet, islets

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G