09-30-2017, 04:30 PM
Have a look at Nintendo’s early prototype for Yoshi
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgamedev.win/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/have-a-look-at-nintendos-early-prototype-for-yoshi.jpg" width="646" height="357" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Nine years after introducing the world to Mario (under the guise of “Jumpman”) in <em>Donkey Kong</em>, Nintendo created a companion for him: <em>Super Mario World’s </em>Yoshi. But where did Yoshi come from?</p>
<p>According to excerpts <a href="https://kotaku.com/confirmed-mario-was-originally-punching-yoshi-1818873540">translated by Kotaku</a> of a new Nintendo [Japanese] <a href="https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/c/article/cb34ab17-9135-11e7-8cda-063b7ac45a6d.html">interview</a> with devs who worked on <em>Super Mario World </em>and <em>Yoshi’s Island</em>, Yoshi was inspired by an image of Mario riding a horse that <em>Mario </em>creator Shigeru Miyamoto drew in the ’80s.</p>
<p>(The interview also included a screenshot [excerpted below] of a prototype Yoshi sprite, dated November of 1989, in which the iconic dinosaur looks more like a sad turtle.)</p>
<p>“When we were making [<em>Super Mario Bros. 3</em>], he drew a picture of Mario riding a horse and had put it up on wall next to where he sits. When I saw that, I thought, ‘I guess he wants Mario to ride something,'” <em>Super Mario World </em>director (and fellow Nintendo vet) Takashi Tezuka reportedly said. “So, when we were making <em>Super Mario World</em>, we had this ‘dinosaur land’ concept, and I had [Shigefumi] Hino draw reptile type art.”</p>
<p>However, it sounds like one of Hino’s first attempts came out looking more like a crocodile than everyone was comfortable with. Tezuka reportedly felt that was maybe a little <em>too </em>reptile-y, and sketched a cuter dinosaur-like creature that became the basis for the Yoshi that appeared in <em>Super Mario World</em>.</p>
<p>And of course, according to a company character guide published in ’93 and <a href="https://twitter.com/blakejharrisNYC/status/496780367538302976">publicized</a> by Console Wars author Blake Harris in 2014, Yoshi’s full name isn’t Yoshi: it’s T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://www.sickgamedev.win/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/have-a-look-at-nintendos-early-prototype-for-yoshi.jpg" /></p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgamedev.win/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/have-a-look-at-nintendos-early-prototype-for-yoshi.jpg" width="646" height="357" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Nine years after introducing the world to Mario (under the guise of “Jumpman”) in <em>Donkey Kong</em>, Nintendo created a companion for him: <em>Super Mario World’s </em>Yoshi. But where did Yoshi come from?</p>
<p>According to excerpts <a href="https://kotaku.com/confirmed-mario-was-originally-punching-yoshi-1818873540">translated by Kotaku</a> of a new Nintendo [Japanese] <a href="https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/c/article/cb34ab17-9135-11e7-8cda-063b7ac45a6d.html">interview</a> with devs who worked on <em>Super Mario World </em>and <em>Yoshi’s Island</em>, Yoshi was inspired by an image of Mario riding a horse that <em>Mario </em>creator Shigeru Miyamoto drew in the ’80s.</p>
<p>(The interview also included a screenshot [excerpted below] of a prototype Yoshi sprite, dated November of 1989, in which the iconic dinosaur looks more like a sad turtle.)</p>
<p>“When we were making [<em>Super Mario Bros. 3</em>], he drew a picture of Mario riding a horse and had put it up on wall next to where he sits. When I saw that, I thought, ‘I guess he wants Mario to ride something,'” <em>Super Mario World </em>director (and fellow Nintendo vet) Takashi Tezuka reportedly said. “So, when we were making <em>Super Mario World</em>, we had this ‘dinosaur land’ concept, and I had [Shigefumi] Hino draw reptile type art.”</p>
<p>However, it sounds like one of Hino’s first attempts came out looking more like a crocodile than everyone was comfortable with. Tezuka reportedly felt that was maybe a little <em>too </em>reptile-y, and sketched a cuter dinosaur-like creature that became the basis for the Yoshi that appeared in <em>Super Mario World</em>.</p>
<p>And of course, according to a company character guide published in ’93 and <a href="https://twitter.com/blakejharrisNYC/status/496780367538302976">publicized</a> by Console Wars author Blake Harris in 2014, Yoshi’s full name isn’t Yoshi: it’s T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://www.sickgamedev.win/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/have-a-look-at-nintendos-early-prototype-for-yoshi.jpg" /></p>
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