Yoshi's Story

Yoshi's Story is a video game for the Nintendo 64 home console. It was released in 1997 in Japan and 1998 elsewhere, and is the first Yoshi platformer not featuring Mario. While the exact time the game takes place is unknown, it is expected that it takes place after the events of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Island DS.

Gameplay
The gameplay will seem familiar to fans of Yoshi's Island on the SNES. Your main forms of attacking is eating the enemy, jumping on them, or throwing your helpful Yoshi Eggs at your opponents. The flutter jump also makes a return, which allows the dinosaur to jump pretty high. To produce eggs, Yoshi must eat an enemy or use a special box.

To beat a level, Yoshi must eat a certain amount of fruit. Each colored Yoshi has his own special fruit that will both raise his health more than other fruits, and give him more points. All Yoshi's love the melon fruit.

The Yoshi's favorite fruits
 * Blue and Light Blue Yoshi - These two colored Yoshies love the taste of fresh purple grapes.
 * Red and Pink Yoshi - Red and Pink Yoshies love apples.
 * Green Yoshi - The Green Yoshi's favorite is a watermelon.
 * Yellow Yoshi - Yellow Yoshies desire yellow bannanas.
 * Black, White- These two secret Yoshis love every type of fruit that they can get their hands on.

The object of the game is not solely to make it through every level, but to finish each level with a high "happiness score". The player should concentrate on searching not just for fruit, but for the correct fruit. For example, if using Yellow Yoshi, one should search for bananas and melons along with the lucky fruit. This will result in a high score at the end of each level.

Game Boy Advance
A demo was created for the Game Boy Advance, but was never released.

Reception
Critics found the game too easy and childish. It is possible to beat the game in a day. Players have found the lack of Baby Mario and Baby Luigi to be an improvement.