Yoshi

T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas , commonly known as Yoshi is a fictional character who appears in video games published by Nintendo. He was designed by Shigefumi Hino and first appeared in Super Mario World (1990) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as a rideable companion for Mario and Luigi. The character belongs to a species of dinosaur-like creatures, also called Yoshis, which are commonly depicted in different colors and are known for using their long tongues to eat enemies and produce eggs. Originally conceived after Shigeru Miyamoto expressed interest in giving Mario a dinosaur companion, Yoshi was introduced once the Super Nintendo hardware allowed the idea to be implemented. After his debut, he became the title character of the Yoshi series, beginning with games such as Yoshi and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Across these games, Yoshi is often portrayed as a heroic and protective character, with abilities such as eating enemies, throwing eggs, and performing the Flutter Jump. Yoshi is also a recurring supporting character in the wider Mario franchise. He has appeared in mainline Super Mario games, the Mario Kart and Mario Party series, various Mario sports titles, and every installment of the Super Smash Bros. series.…

T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas , commonly known as Yoshi is a fictional character who appears in video games published by Nintendo. He was designed by Shigefumi Hino and first appeared in Super Mario World (1990) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as a rideable companion for Mario and Luigi. The character belongs to a species of dinosaur-like creatures, also called Yoshis, which are commonly depicted in different colors and are known for using their long tongues to eat enemies and produce eggs. Originally conceived after Shigeru Miyamoto expressed interest in giving Mario a dinosaur companion, Yoshi was introduced once the Super Nintendo hardware allowed the idea to be implemented. After his debut, he became the title character of the Yoshi series, beginning with games such as Yoshi and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Across these games, Yoshi is often portrayed as a heroic and protective character, with abilities such as eating enemies, throwing eggs, and performing the Flutter Jump. Yoshi is also a recurring supporting character in the wider Mario franchise. He has appeared in mainline Super Mario games, the Mario Kart and Mario Party series, various Mario sports titles, and every installment of the Super Smash Bros. series. Outside video games, Yoshi has appeared in animated series, comics, merchandise, theme park attractions, and film adaptations, including The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026¹), where he is voiced by Donald Glover. Yoshi has been positively received by critics and audiences, who have often highlighted his design, abilities, popularity, and role as Mario's companion. He has been described as one of Nintendo's most recognizable characters and has appeared in several rankings of notable video game characters and sidekicks. ===Super Mario series=== Yoshi made his debut in Super Mario World in 1990, where he appeared as Mario’s rideable companion. He later made a small cameo in Super Mario 64. After Mario collects all 120 Power Stars, Yoshi can be found on the roof of Peach’s Castle and there, he delivers a message from the developers and rewards Mario with 100 extra lives and an enhanced Triple Jump. Yoshi also appears as one of the main protagonists and the first playable character in Super Mario 64 DS. Yoshi returns as a mount in several later Super Mario games, including Super Mario Sunshine, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, New Super Mario Bros. U, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Super Mario Maker. In Super Mario Odyssey, he appears as a capturable character on top of Peach’s Castle, allowing the player to use his Flutter Jump and eating abilities. In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Yoshi appears as a playable character, with red, yellow, and blue variants. These Yoshis can use the Flutter Jump and can also be ridden by other players. ===Yoshi series=== Yoshi's initial appearance in the Yoshi series was in the puzzle game Yoshi, where he counted the number of eggs hatched on the side of the screen. In another puzzle game, Yoshi's Cookie, Yoshi appears as a character in V.S. mode. Yoshi also appears alongside Mario as a playable character in Yoshi's Safari, where they must defeat Bowser and save Jewelry Land. He is the protagonist of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, acting as the caretaker to Baby Mario. The next Yoshi game, Yoshi's Story, has the Yoshis world turned into a storybook, with six Yoshis as the protagonists. Yoshi also appears as the playable protagonist in Yoshi's Universal Gravitation, where his appearance remains consistent with his established design while the gameplay centers on tilting the environment around him. He also appears in Yoshi Touch & Go, where he guides Baby Mario through side-scrolling levels using touch-screen controls. In Yoshi's Island DS, Kamek and Bowser travel back in time and kidnap all of the Mushroom Kingdom's youngsters, only to have some escape and join Yoshi in a journey to save the other kids. Yoshi reappears alongside the baby Mario brothers in Yoshi's New Island, a prequel to Yoshi's Island DS. Yoshi’s next two major games present the character in a handmade craft style. In Yoshi's Woolly World, Yoshi and Red Yoshi must save Craft Island from Kamek and Baby Bowser. The sequel, Yoshi's Crafted World, has the Yoshis collecting the broken pieces of the Sundream Stone. Yoshi is also the protagonist of the game Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, released in May 2026, in which Yoshi finds a magical book containing information about unusual creatures so he decides to jump in and investigate. ===Other Mario games=== Yoshi has appeared in almost all of the Mario spin-off games. He is a playable character in every Mario Kart and Mario Party game released so far, and has also appeared in several Mario sports titles, including Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Super Sluggers, Super Mario Strikers, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. In 1993, Yoshi appeared as a supporting character in Mario is Missing for the NES, SNES, and MS-DOS. The Yoshi species made its debut in the Paper Mario series during the fifth chapter of Paper Mario, when Mario discovers a village of Yoshis. In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Mario rescues a Yoshi egg that later hatches into a baby Yoshi. This baby Yoshi joins Mario’s party during the game’s third chapter and can be named by the player. Yoshi also appears in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. Yoshi is also playable in Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, where he is unlocked after defeating Mecha Jr. in the Lava Pit.

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