Yoshi (Actual NES Capture) - Levels 5-7 Clear

This is a capture of me playing Yoshi for the NES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my front-loading NES using a real Yoshi cartridge.

Back in the early '90s Nintendo began publishing a bunch of puzzle games following the incredible success of Tetris. These titles included Dr. Mario, Tetris 2, Yoshi, Yoshi's Cookie and Wario's Woods. My mother was a puzzle game fanatic back during this time, so she picked up all of these games except for Wario's Woods. As I recall, my mother picked up both Yoshi and Yoshi's Cookie at the same time for our NES, so probably around 1993.

Yoshi is an OK game, but it's probably the weakest of the NES puzzle games. It's a simple stacking game where you wipe out typical Super Mario Bros. enemies while hatching Yoshis by piecing together top and bottom egg sections. Unfortunately, this game lacks the fast, frenetic gameplay of Tetris, Dr. Mario or even Yoshi's Cookie. I remember my mother not really caring for it that much (she preferred Yoshi's Cookie by far). I played it occasionally, but wasn't really into it.

This game was given to early 3DS owners as part of the Ambassador program, so I have it on my 3DS as well. However, I prefer to play it on the NES. I don't care for the first two music tracks in this game, but track three (the one labeled as a Star) is decent, so I always use that track.

For this video I set the game on Level 5 and Mode B and proceeded to make it all the way to Level 8 before getting a game over.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and a composite connection at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the NES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

I'm using a standard NES controller.