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The RetroBeat is a weekly column that looks at gaming’s past, diving into classics, new retro titles, or looking at how old favorites - and their design techniques - inspire today’s market and experiences. Also known as Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshis Island fo. In this sequel to Super Mario World, you play as Yoshi. But that doesn’t mean we need to shove into some category it doesn’t belong in.īut have luck figuring out if Super Mario Maker counts. This is a 100 Walkthrough of World 3 from Super Mario World 2: Yoshis Island for the Super Nintendo. So, esteemed panelists at PAX East, please take these proofs into consideration as you engage in your debates. If Yoshi’s Island is core, then why not Yoshi’s New Island? Calling it a core Mario title opens up the same problem as calling Pluto a planet it opens up eligibility of too many others for the same qualification. Yoshi’s Island is a spin-off, the same as Wario Land, Super Princess Peach, or Captain Toad: Treasure Trackers.

So, in a way, Yoshi’s Island doesn’t even fit my first criteria. It was a marketing maneuver to more closely tie the title into the Super Nintendo’s successful launch game. Nintendo only branded the game as Super Mario World 2 outside of Japan. If it contained a power-up that turned Wario into Mario for 30 seconds, would it suddenly then qualify for the Yoshi’s Islanders?īut even then, Yoshi’s Island status is in a way more precarious than Wario Land’s. Few argue for Wario Land to be a core Mario game. It created its own 2D mechanics that stood apart from traditional Mario games, and it spawned its own franchise that immediately dropped the Super Mario Land branding.

The first Wario Land’s full title is Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3.

This is actually the same trajectory that the Wario series followed.

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