Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is a platform video game acting as a prequel to 1990's Super Mario World. The game casts players as Yoshi as he escorts Baby Mario through 48 levels in order to reunite him…
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is an adventure developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development, released 5 August 1995 on Satellaview, Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is an adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and released in 1995. It was published by Hyundai. It is available on Satellaview, Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A stork carrying the infant Mario Brothers is attacked by Kamek the Magikoopa, who steals Baby Luigi and knocks Baby Mario out of the sky. Baby Mario lands on Yoshi's Island on the back of Yoshi himself. With the help of his seven other Yoshi friends, Yoshi must traverse the island to safely reunite Baby Mario with his brother and get the babies to their parents.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and kids. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Mario Bros. series
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is the 14th of 66 entries we hold in the Mario Bros. series. It arrived 9 months after Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!. The next entry was Virtual Boy Wario Land in 1995. Its critic score of 100 is 26 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 34 points above the year average. Players rate it 94, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island launched on 5 August 1995, within three weeks of Castlevania: Dracula X, The King of Fighters '95, Phantasmagoria and Apache. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Castlevania: Dracula X, The King of Fighters '95, Phantasmagoria, Apache.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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