10 best Yoshi Games of all time, ranked

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Yoshi has been a mainstay of the Super Mario universe ever since the portly red-hatted plumber hatched his egg in Super Mario World for the SNES. An instant hit with fans, Yoshi would go on to star in his own series of games, starting with the NES and Game Boy puzzler Yoshi. It wasn’t the best start for the dino, but Yoshi’s subsequent solo outings would be a heck of a lot better. Because the SEO gods demand it, let’s look back at the 10 best Yoshi games that have come so far.

Some of you might be thinking, “What the heck is Yoshi’s Story doing on a list of best Yoshi Games?” If that’s your reaction to seeing it here, I completely understand. Truth is, Yoshi hasn’t had as prolific of a career as…say…Kirby. He barely has a dozen games to his name, and when two of those titles are the anemic puzzler Yoshi and wildly unfun Yoshi’s Topsy Turvy, it becomes a toss-up as to which one you include to get this list to ten. So I went with the one that’s the easiest to get a screenshot of.

Nintendo Land might just be the most underappreciated pack-in title in all of gaming. This theme park of a game featured a bevy of mini-games centered around various Nintendo franchises. Yoshi’s Fruit Cart is a fun little puzzler that tasked players with drawing a path of the Yoshi cart on the Wii U tablet touch screen while referencing the position of the items they need to collect that were only visible on their television screen. It was a great little test for a player’s hand-eye coordination, and the Yoshi cart was cute to boot.

Because Nintendo doesn’t care about storyline continuity, Yoshi’s New Island, released in 2014 for the Nintendo 3DS, is actually a direct sequel to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, released in 1995 for the Nintendo