Yoshi

Yoshi is a fictional dinosaur who appears in the Mario series of video games made by Nintendo. The character was created by Shigeru Miyamoto.

Yoshi's best-known ability is his ability to eat enemies. He has a long frog-like tongue which he uses to eat enemies and items. In some games, after Yoshi eats enemies, they can be turned into eggs, which can be thrown. One of Yoshi's companions is Mario who helps Yoshi throughout dangerous situations. Most of the time, Mario can ride Yoshi.

Yoshi also can jump very high, and can also float in the air a little bit by kicking his legs. He can also ground pound enemies by quickly jumping on them.

Yoshis are usually green, but can come in many other colors. These other colors include green, red, light blue, blue, purple, pink, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. Blue Yoshi is especially in Super Mario World. In Super Mario 64 DS, Rec Room there's a light blue color in one of Yoshi's minigames Tox Box. In Vs Mode multiplayer, it has a dark blue color and the third player can play him.

In a few games like Super Mario World Yoshi gains powers, like flying, shooting fireballs when spat out, ground pounding, or all three by holding certain colored koopa troopa shells in its mouth.

Yoshi first appeared in the game Super Mario World (SNES), which was released in 1990 in Japan and 1991 in the United States.

Main playable appearances

• Mario Kart 64 (N64)
• Mario Kart: Super Circuit (GBA)
• Mario Kart DS (DS)
• Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
• Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
• Mario Kart 8 (Deluxe) (Wii U/Switch)
• Mario Party series (N64, GCN, DS, and Wii)
• Super Mario 64 DS (DS) (Vs Mode multiplayer only, the one with the game card is Green Yoshi, others are Red, Blue, and Yellow Yoshi.
• Super Mario Kart (SNES)
• Super Mario Sunshine (GCN)
• Super Smash Bros. (N64)
• Super Smash Bros. Melee (GCN)
• Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (GCN)
• Mario Power Tennis (GCN)
• Super Mario Strikers (Wii)
• Super Mario World (SNES)
• Yoshi's Island (SNES), (GBA)
• Yoshi's Island DS (DS)
• Yoshi Touch & Go (DS)
• Yoshi Topsy-Turvy (GBA)
• Yoshi's Story (N64)
• Yoshi's Woolly World (Wii U/3DS)
• Yoshi's Crafted World (Switch)
• Mario Strikers Charged (Wii)
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
• New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U)
• Super Mario Maker (Wii U/3DS)
• Super Mario Maker 2 (Switch)

Reception

Yoshi is a very well-known character in the Mario series. Yoshi is also seen a lot in Mario toys, games, and shirts. Yoshi was in two of the McDonald's Happy Meal Mario toy promotions, which only starred Mario, Donkey Kong and Yoshi himself. In a 2008 poll, Yoshi was voted as the third favorite video game character in Japan. Cloud Strife and Mario were second and first place, in that order.