Many people feel that the original Yoshi's Island is one of the best platformers ever made (if not the best). After all, it was a fun Mario-style game with an interesting mix of gameplay ideas. Its ...

I have some weird questions about Yoshi’s New Island that Nintendo will likely never explain. When Yoshi sucks in some poor Shy Guy and generates an egg, what happens to the Shy Guy? Does Yoshi absorb ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Nintendo Museum is preparing to open in Kyoto, Japan, and it looks to be an incredible collection of Nintendo ephemera. But it is also, perhaps ...

Nintendo’s favorite green dinosaur lets gamers down in “Yoshi’s New Island,” though some may still love this simple and happy creature. In the game, Yoshi hurls eggs, swallows enemies and hums while ...

Yoshi's Island, the sequel to Super Mario World, debuted 20 years ago today. I almost missed out on it. Compared to most other major Nintendo releases in the '90s, Yoshi's Island barely commanded a ...

Nintendo's Takashi Tezuka and Shigefumi Hino look back on the development of Super Mario World 2, where the Super FX chip and a risky 'hand drawn' style pushed the limits of 16-bit gaming When you ...

Jason learned to read playing Pokemon Crystal on the Game Boy Color, and hasn't looked back. He received a Journalism degree at California State University, Fullerton while working on news coverage ...

The opening cinematic of Yoshi’s Island shows Baby Mario and Baby Luigi being carried by a literal stork (to their vaguely defined parents) when an attack drives him of course, and Mario ends up ...

Thanks to Kirby, Pikachu, Toad and a dozen or so other characters, Nintendo has cornered the market on video-game adorability. But none may be more endearing than Yoshi, the spunky dinosaur who has ...

Rob is Lead Features Editor at DualShockers, and has been playing games since hijacking his sister's NES in the early 90s. Instead of outgrowing them, decided to make a life out of ranting about them.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Yoshi's Island DS Yoshi's Island DS is a 2D platformer for the Nintendo DS in the Yoshi's Island series. It is the sequel to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's ...