Koopa Troopas, or just simply Koopas, known in Japan as, are fictional race of turtle or tortoise-like creatures from the Mario series of video games, and also appearing in its sister Yoshi series.

Yoshi also appears in New Super Mario Bros. Wii ( 2009 ) as the characters ' companion and steed, similar to his original debut role in Super Mario World.

Yoshi is also capable of laying distinctive spotted eggs after swallowing objects, which can then be thrown at enemies or objects ; eggs are in fact the primary " logo " of Yoshi in multiplayer games.

Yoshi is also capable of forming an egg around himself and rolling around.

Yoshi is also a heavy user of the ground pound, dropping from the air onto targets.

Although he was introduced on the SNES in 1990, Yoshi was also the star of two self-titled games for the original NES released in ' 92 and ' 93: Yoshi and Yoshi's Cookie, respectively.

Yoshi was also intended to appear in the original Super Mario Galaxy but was removed because, according to Satoru Iwata in an Iwata Asks session, it would be " too much all at once.

Yoshi was also featured in the Super Mario Bros. movie.

Yoshi is also featured in a myriad of Mario merchandise ; he is the subject of toys, shirts, and figures.

Yoshi also appeared in two of the McDonald's Happy Meal promotions of Mario toys which only starred Mario, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi himself.

Along with jumping on most enemies, Yoshi can perform a flutter jump that allows him to reach higher areas or cross large gaps, and can also perform a butt stomp which can be used to smash through crates or push down stumps.

The black and white Yoshis also have more powerful eggs, that will set off a huge blast if the Yoshi is happy.

If a Yoshi is lost, Yoshi's Mood will also be decreased by 100 points.

However, the amount of points a certain action will yield, will also depend on the Yoshi in play.

With 30 pieces on each course, a diet of only melons makes the most happy Yoshi. The player can also score bigger points by achieving multiplier bonuses.

Notably, the black Yoshi can also be spotted in the video clip, but there are no signs of the pink or white Yoshis, indicating that these characters did not exist at the time.

Aside from providing the voice for Yoshi, Kazumi Totaka is also the composer of the music in Yoshi's Story.

Mario can also ride Yoshi later in the game, who can eat fruit and squirt the juice of that fruit.

They also stated that several Yoshi features were omitted, such as Yoshi vomiting juice fed to him.

Yoshi appears in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and his role in the game is very similar to his original role in Super Mario World.

Yoshi as he appears in the Super Mario World ( TV series ) | Super Mario World television series.

While featuring Nintendo's trademark Mario character, the game's graphics and gameplay differed from all previous Mario games in that players control various Yoshi dinosaurs rather than Mario himself, who appears as a helpless infant.

According to this game, Peach was classified as lighter than Yoshi and Bowser was classified heavier than Donkey Kong, although most Mario games classify Peach being heavier than Yoshi while Bowser is lighter than Donkey Kong.

Changing into a Tanooki statue while jumping would result in Mario pounding the ground and killing whatever enemies are directly under him, this marked the first appearance of the " Ground Pound " move in a Mario game, a move that would later be given to Yoshi in Yoshi's Island and that would later become part of Mario's standard moveset in Super Mario 64 and all subsequent games.

The inspiration for Yoshi can be traced back further, to the green dragon Tamagon in the 1984 video game Devil World.

Once the more powerful Super NES was released, Miyamoto was finally able to implement Yoshi into the series, putting him into the video game Super Mario World.

Yoshi proved to be popular in his debut, which caused the next game in the series, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, to focus on his species.

By rapidly flapping his arms and legs, Yoshi can hover in midair or even gain height ( depending on the game ), this " flutter jump " makes difficult jumps much easier to accomplish.

This game spawned a prequel entitled Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the Super Nintendo in which the player could control Yoshi in order to keep Baby Mario out of harm's way as they advanced through the game.

Yoshi appeared in Super Mario 64 as a non-playable character who could be seen upon completion of the game.

However in this game, he is portrayed as a tropical Yoshi who changes to different colors after eating different fruits.

In the Gamecube title Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Mario rescues a Yoshi egg that hatches and joins his team during the third chapter of the game entitled " Of Glitz And Glory ".

Shoot all of them will earn the player the Yoshi rank at the end of the game.

In a poll conducted in 2008, Yoshi was voted as the third-favorite video game character in Japan, with Cloud Strife and Mario placing second and first, respectively.

Cheat Code Central listed Yoshi as the third best sidekick in video games, commenting that he's one of the most adorable video game characters.

Yoshi has a unique set of controls that separate the game from other titles in the Mario series.

Throughout the game, Kamek tries to stop Yoshi by dispatching his minions all across the island and by using magic spells to transform normal enemies into more powerful creatures that further impede Yoshi's progress.

While the black and white Yoshis are the only additional playable Yoshis presented in the game, a teaser trailer from an earlier stage of the game would reveal the presence of a brown and a purple Yoshi.

However, with the characters being absent from the final game, hoaxes began to spread about how to unlock them, while the brown Yoshi appeared to be misinterpret as golden.

While the game's overall sound effects were designed by Hajime Wakai, the palette of vocal expressions for Yoshi were recorded by Kazumi Totaka, making Yoshi's Story the first game to feature a voice for the dinosaur.

This trend was eventually interrupted in 2009 with the release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which used the original Yoshi cry from Super Mario World as part of a homage to that game.

Yoshi, Luigi, and Wario are additional playable characters, and the game features slightly altered graphics, additional stars, courses, touchscreen mini-games, and a multiplayer mode.