Yoshi's Cookie

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Yoshi's Cookie is one of those quietly charming puzzle games that tends to surprise people who stumble upon it. It arrived in the wake of Tetris fever, when every falling-block hopeful was chasing the same magic, and carved out its own niche with a loop that is simple to learn and surprisingly tricky to master. Nothing falls here. Instead, cookies fill a tray-like grid, and you slide whole rows sideways and whole columns up and down to line up matching shapes. Complete a row or column of one kind and it clears; let the cookies spread out to the edges and the round is over.

The special Yoshi Cookie is the twist, acting as a wild card in any line it joins, and spotting the move that sets one up is where much of the strategy lives. Fresh cookies keep feeding in from the edges as the levels climb, so the game slides from relaxing to frantic without ever changing its rules. It is the kind of puzzler where you tell yourself “just one more round” and suddenly realize an hour has passed.

The NES version keeps the presentation bright and cheerful, all pastel cookies and that unmistakable Nintendo polish, with Mario and Yoshi front and center lending the whole package the warm, familiar energy of the company's early-nineties lineup. The character tie-in gives it a personality that a lot of puzzle titles of the era lacked, and a two-player mode turns it into a lively head-to-head contest on one console.

There is a reason puzzle collectors keep an eye out for this one. The NES library is packed with action games and platformers, which makes a well-designed puzzler stand out, and Yoshi's Cookie arrived late in the console's life, with a Game Boy version alongside it and a Super NES edition to follow. It is approachable enough to hand to someone who has never touched an NES, yet its later stages will test seasoned players, and it deserves its spot next to Dr. Mario and Tetris in the system's puzzle corner.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1992
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Nintendo R&D1
Genre
Puzzle
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game

Yoshi's Cookie is a puzzle game similar to Tetris, in which the player is given a playing field populated with cookies of five various types arranged in a rectangular grid. The player moves randomly placed cookies into rows and columns of cookies with similar patterns. When a row or column of the same cookies is successfully assembled, the line will disappear, and the player can begin to work on a new row or column. The main objective of each level is to clear the playing field of all the cookies.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
Watch gameplayYoshi's Cookie on NES
Video: Yoshi's Cookie

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