Yoshi's Island received critical acclaim and sold over four million copies. The original version was also released for the Super NES Classic Edition and Nintendo Switch Online in the late 2010s. This version was rereleased for the Nintendo 3DS and the Wii U's Virtual Console in the early 2010s. The game was ported to the Game Boy Advance as Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island in 2002. Some of its special effects were powered by a new Super FX2 microchip. The game has a hand-drawn aesthetic and was the first in the franchise to have Yoshi as its main character, where it introduces his signature flutter jump and egg spawning abilities.Īfter four years of development, Yoshi's Island was released in Japan in August 1995 and worldwide two months later. As a Super Mario series platformer, Yoshi runs and jumps to reach the end of the level while solving puzzles and collecting items with Mario's help. The player controls Yoshi, a friendly dinosaur, on a quest to reunite baby Mario with his brother Luigi, who has been kidnapped by Kamek. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is a 1995 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).

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