{"id":130727,"date":"2022-12-22T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-142937"},"modified":"2022-12-22T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T01:15:00","slug":"n64-classic-yoshis-story-celebrates-its-25th-anniversary-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/22\/n64-classic-yoshis-story-celebrates-its-25th-anniversary-today\/","title":{"rendered":"N64 Classic Yoshi&#8217;s Story Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5531e3dd9c552\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5531e3dd9c552\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Yoshi's Story\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5531e3dd9c552\/yoshis-story.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNjI4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"628\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5531e3dd9c552\/yoshis-story.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Yoshi's Story\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Nintendo 64 era was loaded with plenty of exciting first-party releases, but one that you might not always consider when reflecting on this generation is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/yoshis_story\">Yoshi&#8217;s Story<\/a>. This delightful side-scrolling platfomer was first released in Japan in 1997 and today marks a special milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, believe it or not, but the N64 title Yoshi&#8217;s Story is now officially 25 years old based on its original release on 21st December 1997. To celebrate this occasion, Nintendo has taken time out of its own busy schedule on social media to ask fans their favourite memories.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/nintendoamerica\/statuses\/1605639251596611592 @ 2022-12-22T09:08:37+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">25 years ago today, Yoshi\u2019s Story was released on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nintendo64?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nintendo64<\/a> in Japan! What are your favorite memories from venturing through the pages of this Yoshi adventure?<\/p>\n<p>Yoshi\u2019s Story is available to play now for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitchOnline?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitchOnline<\/a> + Expansion members! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yjpx6ggVZr\">pic.twitter.com\/Yjpx6ggVZr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/1605639251596611592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Yoshi&#8217;s Story eventually arrived here in the in 1998, and over the years has been re-released on the Wii Virtual Console (2007), the Wii U Virtual Console (2016), and (as noted by Nintendo above) was most recently made available on the Switch Online + Expansion Service last year.<\/p>\n<p>In this adventure, Yoshi is tasked with saving the day after Baby Bowser transforms his island into a storybook and runs off with the Super Happy Tree. Players must then work their way through six pages to eventually face off against the baby. You can learn more in our review:<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/yoshi\/related-articles:59430 @ 2022-12-22T09:39:16+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Do you have any fond memories of this N64 title? <em>Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo The Nintendo 64 era was loaded with plenty of exciting first-party releases, but one that you might not always consider when reflecting on this generation is Yoshi&#8217;s Story. This delightful side-scrolling platfomer was first released in Japan in 1997 and today marks a special milestone. Yes, believe it or not, but the N64 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}