Mario & Yoshi (GB)

This game, unlike any other mario game, is a little diffrent instead of it being a platform collect em up it is in the puzzle genre. the aim is to make a column of 3 characters from the mario world and to trap them in both the top and the bottom of a yoshi shell. you may be thinking that this is very similar to tetris, well it is but with a bit of a twist, characters fall from the top of the screen, your job as mario is to swap round the columns so the characters can lign up in an egg shell. its gameplay is fairly simple nothing too difficult to control just move mario then press spin, graphics are nothing special as it is for a ...  Read the complete review

Well fortunately in some respects this is somewhat different, being as it is, a puzzler, rather than the usual platform action, but unfortunately it quite simply sucks. Its difficult to say much about it because the gameplay is so...empty. You are Mario and you are at the bottom of the screen holding ummm serving trays(?). Your enemies from the platform games fall from the sky and turn into blocks when they land. You must manipulate these fallen blocks so that you get groups of three which will then disappear, get you points and eventually allow you to move on to the next level. The later levels start with blocks already there making you task that ...  Read the complete review

When I first saw Mario and Yoshi I assumed that it was simply an addition to the Super Mario series on the Gameboy. Being an avid platformer fan, I bought it, took it home and instantly realised I had actually bought a PUZZLE game! I was at first a little annoyed. I played it for a while. I was actually beginning to LIKE it! After a few more plays through a one player game I really enjoyed the game's quirky graphics and sound track. The idea is simple - you stack up little enemies in blocks of three and they disappear. But unlike most puzzle games, it wasn't a case of simply going on forever. When you enter a level, there are some blocks already laid ...  Read the complete review