History VideoGame / YoshisIsland

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' ([[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]], 1995)
* ''VideoGame/YoshisStory'' (UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}}, 1997)
* ''VideoGame/YoshisIslandDS'' (UsefulNotes/NintendoDS, 2006)
* ''VideoGame/YoshisNewIsland'' (UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, 2014)
* ''VideoGame/YoshisWoollyWorld'' (UsefulNotes/{{Wii U}}, 2015)
* ''VideoGame/YoshisCraftedWorld'' (UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, 2019)

* ''[[VideoGame/PanelDePon Tetris Attack]]'': Yet another puzzle game, featuring the grown-up Bowser. Of course, it's really just a [[DolledUpInstallment sprite swapped-version]] of the Japanese game, ''Panel De Pon''. Also [[InNameOnly has nothing to do]] with VideoGame/{{Tetris}}.[[note]]On the other hand, the Game Boy version and a UsefulNotes/{{Satellaview}} version were released in Japan with the Yoshi characters as "Yoshi no Panepon".[[/note]]

* ''[[VideoGame/YoshiTouchAndGo Yoshi Touch & Go]]'': First DS game to bear the title. In a way, this game harkens back to the early days of the original [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Family Computer/NES]], where the main objective is to get the highest score possible.

* {{Rotoscoping}}: [[http://www.mfgg.net/index.php?act=resdb&param=02&c=1&id=9916 Bowser's sprites]] in ''Yoshi's Island DS'' [[http://www.mfgg.net/index.php?act=resdb&param=02&c=1&id=22788 actually come from]] ''Yoshi Topsy-Turvy'', redrawn to fit the graphical style of the former.

** Baby Donkey Kong and Baby Wario, both of who debuted in ''Yoshi's Island DS'' as two of the seven star children, disappeared from the franchise not long after their first appearance. The former hasn't been seen since ''VideoGame/MarioSuperSluggers'', and the latter was initially unlucky as he only appeared in one game, but was eventually brought back for ''[[VideoGame/DrMario Dr. Mario World]]'' 14 years later.

** Baby Donkey Kong and Baby Wario, both of who debuted in ''Yoshi's Island DS'' as two of the seven star children, disappeared from the franchise not long after their first appearance. The former hasn't been seen since ''VideoGame/MarioSuperSluggers'', and the latter was initially unlucky as he only appeared in one game, but was eventually brought back for ''VideoGame/DrMarioWorld'' 14 years later.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Poochy, who got his own level in ''Yoshi's Island'', appeared as a selectable character in ''[[VideoGame/PanelDePon Tetris Attack]]'', had a minor role sniffing out fruit in a couple levels of Yoshi's Story, and since then has only gotten two cameo appearances in ''VideoGame/MarioKart: Double Dash!!'' and ''VideoGame/MarioParty Advance''.
** TheBusCameBack: Poochy returns for ''Yoshi's New Island''.

** The section of Bowser's Castle just before the final fight in the original game, where Kamek desperately tries to zap you with his MagicWand.

The games all star Mario's faithful dinosaur steed Yoshi, who originally debuted in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''. Most of the games in the ''Yoshi's Island'' series are {{Prequel}}s to the rest of the ''Mario'' series; in addition to the eponymous dinosaurs, the games feature [[SpinOffBabies baby]] versions of the staple Mario cast. Much of the games feature a baby Mario himself riding the Yoshis, and one of the main goals of the series is to protect Baby Mario from being captured by the Koopas, led by a baby Bowser and his caretaker Kamek.

Aside from platformers, Yoshi has also starred in various other games ranging from puzzle games like ''Yoshi's Egg'' and ''Tetris Attack'' to the LightGunGame ''Yoshi's Safari''. Elements from the ''Yoshi'' series have also been incorporated into the extended ''Mario'' series, with Baby Mario and Luigi often appearing in the spinoffs. Yoshi himself is a perennial playable character in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, where he is considered to represent this franchise as opposed to the ''Mario'' franchise where he originates.

** ''Yoshi's Island DS'', the story involving [[spoiler:Bowser and the star children]] is put into action in the opening, but after that it's only brought up in the second-to-last world and is in a MeanwhileScene that has no real effect on the actual adventure.

* ''[[VideoGame/YoshisUniversalGravitation Yoshi Topsy-Turvy]]'': Known by the name ''Yoshi's Universal Gravitation'' in Japanese and European languages -- A short platformer with a tilt gimmick and ''VideoGame/YoshisStory'' style graphics, as well as featuring the grown-up Bowser.

* ''VideoGame/TetrisAttack'': Yet another puzzle game, featuring the grown-up Bowser. Of course, it's really just a [[DolledUpInstallment sprite swapped-version]] of the Japanese game, ''VideoGame/PanelDePon''. Also [[InNameOnly has nothing to do]] with VideoGame/{{Tetris}}.[[note]]On the other hand, the Game Boy version and a UsefulNotes/{{Satellaview}} version were released in Japan with the Yoshi characters as "Yoshi no Panepon".[[/note]]

* MascotMook: Despite first appearing in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' (or ''Doki Doki Panic''), the Shy Guy has become this for the ''Yoshi'' series, taking the role of TheGoomba as well a having many other variants appear as common enemies.

* BatterUp: Sluggers are capable of using their bats to knock back just about anything that is thrown their way, from eggs, to watermelon seeds, to ''Chomp Rocks''.

** Just about every boss fight. It's almost a RunningGag for the final Bowser fight in the series now, after a basic fight against Bowser, he gets made 20/200 times bigger by Kamek's magic and ends up trying to crush Yoshi and the final castle level flat.

* * PainToTheAss: In the Yoshi's Island series including Yoshi's Island 1995 SNES, Yoshi's Island 2006 DS, Yoshi's Island. If Yoshi falls in the spikes he will spin around and die, and if he falls in lava at any time, his butt will be on fire while he leaps up and fall through the screen while holding his painfully burnt bare bottom and die.

** Pretty much all ''Yoshi's Island DS'' levels, which seem designed to trick you into dying horribly via DeathTraps you have to be psychic to avoid. Especially the skiing in A Light in the Dark and the egg powered platform in Yoshi's Island Easter Eggs.

The games all star Mario's faithful dinosaur steed Yoshi, who originally debuted in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''. An interesting aspect of the series is that most of the games in the series are {{Prequel}}s to the rest of the ''Mario'' series. In addition to the eponymous dinosaurs, the games feature [[SpinOffBabies baby]] versions of the staple Mario cast. Much of the games feature a baby Mario himself riding the Yoshis, and one of the main goals of the series is to protect Baby Mario from being captured by the Koopas, led by a baby Bowser and his caretaker Kamek.

* DoubleTake: A rare example of this trope being used as a gameplay mechanic. Should Yoshi get hit while his shoes are planted on the ground, Mario will float off his saddle. Yoshi will stop and look around frantically for about two seconds at which point the player can control him into rescuing Mario.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yoshi}}: Known as ''Yoshi's Egg'' in Japanese and ''Mario & Yoshi'' in European languages -- PuzzleGame, featuring the grown up Mario and Luigi; one of the early works of Creator/GameFreak.

* ''[[VideoGame/YoshisCookie]]'': A completely different puzzle game, featuring the grown-up Mario, Peach, and Bowser. Developed by Bulletproof Software.

* ''[[VideoGame/YoshisCookie Yoshi's Cookie]]'': A completely different puzzle game, featuring the grown-up Mario, Peach, and Bowser. Developed by Bulletproof Software.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yoshi}}'': Known as ''Yoshi's Egg'' in Japanese and ''Mario & Yoshi'' in European languages -- PuzzleGame, featuring the grown up Mario and Luigi; one of the early works of Creator/GameFreak.

* OverarchingVillain: Bowser once more, adult or child. Kamek may count too, but he sometimes doesn't show up, whereas Bowser is always fought in some manner.

** [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Ukikis]] in general.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: In the ''DS'' sequel, Yoshi ends up carrying babies other than Mario.

* BossArenaIdiocy: Tap-Tap the Red Nose is invincible to all Yoshi's attacks. Good thing he's just [[spoiler:chilling on a stack of breakable blocks above lava!]]
* BrutalBonusLevel: Pretty much all of the Secret and Extra levels are this.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In World 2-1 of ''Yoshi's Island DS'', you are forced to use Baby DK to play through the entire level the first time you play it, and you could only use Mario and Peach upon replaying the level. While Baby Peach [[DistressedDamsel had a good reason]], Baby Mario gets no justification for why you can't use him. The same thing was done in both World 3-5 and World 4-5, with Baby Wario and Baby Bowser respectively. Again, no justification exists on why you can't use the other babies the first time around in World 4-5.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: When you are inside Prince Froggy, you are supposed to AttackItsWeakPoint, which turns out to be its uvula. Only humans have uvulas. And the uvula isn't in the stomach, and it triggers the gag reflex, not a bowel movement.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: In the sequel, Yoshi ends up carrying babies other than Mario.
* BackForTheFinale: Baby Wario and Baby Bowser return for the final level in ''Yoshi's Island DS''.
* BackgroundBoss: The original ''Yoshi's Island'' ends with this.

* BigBoosHaunt: Bigger Boo's Fort and Hector the Reflector's Haunted House.
* BlackoutBasement: A few areas such as the basement in Burt The Bashful's Fort are dark.
* BookEnds: World 6 Secret, "Endless World of Yoshis" in ''Advance 3'', the last segment of which is... the intro level, "Welcome To Yoshi's Island".

* ButtMonkey: Yellow Yoshi who must brave through every fourth level which includes the fortress and mini-boss. Downplayed with blue Yoshi has to storm every castle which includes the world's boss except the last, which is Bowser's Castle for the green Yoshi.

* CatSmile: One of the fire enemies. LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} calls them "Catoboos" because of this.
* CheckpointStarvation: The first four world's extra stages do not feature middle rings at all. Granted, the levels are significantly shorter than many of the regular ones, and one is a maze without a really significant middle point, but still!
* ChekhovsSkill: Bouncing an egg off the wall. What, you thought the Naval Piranha level just happened to train that to hell?

* CrosshairAware: The final boss, and a handful of regular enemies as well.

* DefeatByModesty: Burt the Bashful in the original and the Burt Bros. in ''Yoshi's Island DS''.
* DegradedBoss: Big Slime/Salvo the Slime, a boss from the first game's first world, reappears in a few endgame fortress levels guarding keys as an altered mini-boss of sorts.

* DistressedDamsel: Averted with Peach, surprisingly, as she's actually a playable character in ''Yoshi's Island DS'' (She does get kidnapped by monkeys in World 2-1, however.)

* TheDragon: Kamek, though the most frequent antagonist in the game is the one to help out Baby Bowser in his final battle.
* EarlyBirdBoss: If you're going for 100 points, Burt the Bashful from the first game can be this. Burt's weak spot shrinks after each hit so timing your throws becomes much more difficult as he attacks you. One miss and you can kiss your perfect score goodbye. It doesn't help that the first castle boss, Salvo the Slime, is significantly easier.

* ExcusePlot: ''Yoshi's Island DS'', the story involving [[spoiler:Bowser and the star children]] is put into action in the opening, but after that it's only brought up in the second-to-last world and is in a MeanwhileScene that has no real effect on the actual adventure.

* FakeDifficulty: The invisible clouds in ''Yoshi's New Island'', which half of the game's red coins and smiley flowers are hidden in, which only appear (very transparently) for a split second at a time.

* FlippingHelpless: This is how you defeat Hookbill the Koopa in ''Yoshi's Island'' and [[spoiler:(adult)]] Bowser's first form in ''Yoshi's Island DS''; Flip them over, then GroundPound their underside to cause damage.

* FutureMeScaresMe / IHatePastMe / OtherMeAnnoysMe: Baby Bowser and adult Bowser in ''Yoshi's Island DS'' do not get along well [[spoiler:until they team up for the final boss fight.]]
* GalacticConqueror: Bowser aims to be this in ''Yoshi's Island DS''. He would later try again in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''.
* GangplankGalleon: World 3 in ''Yoshi's Island DS''.
* GenerationXerox: While they've always looked more similar than different, ''Yoshi's New Island'' uses a design for Baby Bowser that is perfectly identical to Bowser Jr. in every physical detail, minus the bandana, retconning what few tiny physical differences there used to be and adding even more to frequent confusion between them. It also doesn't help that the voice they use are stock clips of Bowser Jr.'s voice that are raised in pitch.
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* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: [[spoiler:Bowser]] appears this way in ''Yoshi's New Island''.
* TheGoomba:
** Oddly enough, not ''the'' Goomba (which does appear but not until many levels into the game), but rather the Shy Guys from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''.
** Also Crayzee Dayzees, which appear later in ''VideoGame/{{Paper Mario|64}}''.

%%* GroundPound: TropeNamer.
* GroundWave: Both in the first game:
** The ground wobbling and rippling is one of the side-effects while Yoshi is dizzy.
** During the first phase of the FinalBoss, both Yoshi and Baby Bowser's {{Ground Pound}}s cause damaging shockwaves that literally ripple across the floor.
* GuestStarPartyMember: In ''DS'', Baby Wario and Baby Bowser are only usable for very specific sets of levels, after which they leave the 'party' until the [[BackForTheFinale final level]].
* GuideDangIt: If you want a 100% score, both the bonus levels "Go! Go! Morphing!" and "Items are fun!" require you to know about mechanics that aren't hinted at anywhere in the game. To wit, that the helicopter morph can break soft soil above it with its blades, and that Yoshi can jump on, and therefore bounce off of, spiked enemies as long as they're frozen with a blue watermelon first.

* HardLevelsEasyBosses: Marching Milde's Fort is long and challenging, but Marching Milde itself is pathetically easy to defeat.

* HighAltitudeBattle: Rapheal the Raven from the original and Moltz the Very Goonie in ''Yoshi's Island DS''. Former battled on the moon, latter literally battled in [[FreeFallFight free fall]].
* HumanSnowball: If you hit a rock on a skiing level, you will trip and turn into one.

* IdentityConcealmentDisposal: The epilogue in ''Yoshi's New Island'' reveals that [[spoiler: Mr. Pipe, a warp pipe character that helps Yoshi if he loses too many lives in a incomplete level, is actually Adult Mario in disguise.]]

* ImplacableMan: Tap-Tap the Golden, encountered in the cave behind Door 3 in Baby Bowser's Castle. He will steadily chase you across the cave and cannot be damaged or defeated by any means; even if he falls into one of the BottomlessPits he will somehow manage to jump back out. Your only option is to knock him backwards with eggs and flee.
* InsurmountableWaistHighFence: [[DownTheDrain Extra 4: The Impossible(?) Maze]] has insurmountable waist-high holes in the wall, and the majority of the level revolves around pushing boxes under those holes so Yoshi can enter them.

* InterfaceScrew: Four words: "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy."
** The same effect is used when Yoshi is about to throw a giant egg. Apparently lifting something that heavy is a touch disorienting.
** There is also the "Grim Leecher", which thankfully is encountered only in a bonus level in ''Yoshi's Island''.

* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: In ''Yoshi's Island DS'', where there's a worldwide baby-snatching spree.
* JackOfAllStats: Mario (who else?) in ''Yoshi's Island DS''.

* KangarooPouchRide: In ''DS''.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Baby Yoshi in TheStinger of ''Yoshi's Island DS''.

* LivingMacGuffin: The seven star children ([[spoiler:Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Baby Peach, Baby DK, Baby Wario, Baby Bowser, and Baby Yoshi]]) in ''Yoshi's Island DS''.

* MeaninglessLives: In ''DS'', it is ''very'' easy to rack up over 100 lives in the first half of the game. Subverted in that, in the second half of the game, [[NintendoHard you WILL]] [[PlatformHell need them]].
%%* MightyGlacier: Baby DK and Baby Bowser.
* MinecartMadness: "High-Speed Cart Race" in ''Yoshi's Island DS''.
* MiniDungeon: ''Yoshi's Island'' games have fortresses at the middle of the worlds, and unlike in the more traditional ''Mario'' games, each of them has a different, unique MiniBoss.
* MonsterCompendium: ''DS'' has a ''museum'' of every enemy defeated with an egg.

* MushroomSamba: The Fuzzies, which cause Yoshi to stumble around as if drunk for a little while, [[InterfaceScrew screwing up his movements.]] As it happens, the "[[CanisLatinicus scientific name]]" of the Fuzzies is ''Dudim Phreykunoutonthis''.
* MusicalNod: The end credits play a slowed-down remix of the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' Course Clear fanfare.
* {{Nerf}}: In ''Yoshi's Island DS'', red eggs will not bounce off surfaces. Though it nerfs the egg projectile in general, the primary effect is that it makes exploiting the fact that eggs change colour as they bounce to gain red eggs harder than in the original.

%%** ''Yoshi's Island DS''.

* OminousFloatingCastle: Bowser's Castle in Yoshi's Island DS.

* PrecisionFStrike: If Naval Piranha is defeated before his boss fight (see SkippableBoss), Kamek yells, "OH, MY!" Where this trope counts is in the Japanese version: Kamek yells, "チクショ〜！" ("chikusho~!"), which generally translates to, "Damn it!"

* ProgressiveInstrumentation: The Level Select theme adds an instrument for every world completed.

* RiseToTheChallenge: "Welcome to Yoshi Tower!" in ''DS''.
* RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue: In World 3-8, a message box that gives instructions on throwing eggs across water:
-->Roses are red\\
Violets are blue\\
Never forget,\\
What I say to you,\\
Timing is all,\\
And aim true,\\
Measure the angle,\\
And win, do!

* SequelReset / ShaggyDogStory: ''Yoshi's New Island'' actually starts with the original ''Yoshi's Island'' ending, revealing that the stork actually made a mistake and delivered the Mario Bros. to the wrong couple. So the stork is off to get the babies to the right parents when Kamek returns to capture them again.

* SkippableBoss: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdURDeKS5XQ Naval Piranha in the original game]]. If you position yourself on the far left end of the boss room ledge such that Kamek doesn't appear, you can throw an egg at the Piranha Plant to finish it off, skipping the entire fight against it.
-->'''Kamek:''' '''''OH, MY!'''''

* SpikeBallsOfDoom: The ones in this game are spinning at the end of a spiky contraption. Lakitus can also throw orange variations of them. Later, blue ones can be found on walls.
%%* SpinoffBabies

* {{Stellification}}: When you defeat Raphael the Raven, he becomes a constellation.
* TheStinger: Post-credits of ''Yoshi's New Island'' reveals that [[spoiler: the pipe that spontaneously grew legs and eyes early in the game was actually a time-traveling adult Mario. In the darkness of the night he shreds his disguise and returns home.]]
* SuddenlyShouting: In the original game, [[spoiler:one of the different paths in Bowser's Castle starts with a Hint Block that says [[DontAskJustRun "RUN AWAY!!! HURRY!!!"]] When you go down the Warp Pipe, you are forced to flee from Tap-Tap the Golden. Maybe the talking block wasn't kidding.]]
* SuperTitle64Advance: ''Yoshi's Island DS''.
* SwampsAreEvil: "Prince Froggy's Fort" is located in a swamp.
* SynchronizedSwarming: The swarms of bees in the Jungle Hut stage of ''Yoshi's Story'' do not like noise and will form a large open palm to stop you if you're moving too loudly. (See VideoGameCrueltyPunishment)

* TakeThatAudience: The Extra 1 level is named "Poochy Ain't Stupid!" This is the game telling you that if you die at this level, it's not the dog's fault, it's YOURS.
* TeamPet: Poochy.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Wario's only advantage over the other babies is the magnet he carries. This only comes in handy for obstacles that are specifically designed to make use of it.

* TimeKeepsOnTicking: The second game's Time Trial mode will let NOTHING stop the clock. And it taunts you for it.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Melons in ''Yoshi's Story''.

* TravelingPipeBulge: Present in ''Yoshi's Island DS''.

* TheUnfought: In the original and ''DS'', Kamek much prefers mutating enemies into bosses than directly confronting Yoshi. The closest he's come to a boss battle is when he attacks you throughout the final hallway in Bowser's Castle in the first game. Even then, he's more of an obstacle than a real enemy, and can't be defeated (if you attack him, he [[TeleportSpam vanishes and reappears on another part of the screen]]). When you get into the boss room, it looks as though you're finally going into a real battle against him, but he only turns out to be a BaitAndSwitchBoss.
** Averted in the case of ''Yoshi's New Island'', in which Kamek becomes the fortress mini-boss for each world.

* {{Whammy}}: Kamek, in two of the Bonus Challenge games (Flip Cards and Drawing Lots).
* WombLevel: [[spoiler:The fight against Prince Froggy, where, instead of the boss being giant, Kamek makes you tiny, and Froggy immediately eats you up.]]
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: One jungle level in ''Yoshi's Island DS'' is filled with happy, smiling, helpful, delicious monkeys.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Hitting a swarm of bees with an egg in ''Yoshi's Story'' will get you PUNCHED by them.

* ''[[VideoGame/YoshiTopsyTurvy Yoshi Topsy-Turvy]]'': Known by the name ''Yoshi's Universal Gravitation'' in Japanese and European languages -- A short platformer with a tilt gimmick and ''VideoGame/YoshisStory'' style graphics, as well as featuring the grown-up Bowser.