Trivia / Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

• First Appearance: While Mario and Luigi are well-established by this point, this is the first appearance of their baby counterparts, who would become staples alongside their adult counterparts in the spin-offs. This is also the first appearance of Bowser's adviser, Kamek.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: For reasons unknown, the SNES version was never ported to the Wii Virtual Console; meanwhile, only the GBA version was ported to the Wii U Virtual Console. Eventually became averted with its re-release on the Super NES Classic and Nintendo Switch Online. The most common theories suggest that Nintendo had problems emulating and/or securing legal clearance to emulate the SuperFX chip (which was developed by the now-defunct Argonaut Software), as the other first-party SuperFX SNES games (Star Fox and its unreleased sequel, along with Stunt Race FX) were similarly MIA until the SNES Classic.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: Rumors often claim that the game's hand-drawn art style was a deliberate response to Executive Meddling that pushed for pre-rendered sprites in the vein of Donkey Kong Country, which had owed a significant amount of its success to its pseudo-3D graphics. However, a 2019 interview with the game's developers done to promote the release of the SNES Classic Edition revealed that Yoshi's Island was already so far into development by the time of Donkey Kong Country's release — having started production all the way back in 1991 — that it would've been unfeasible to go back and redo all the graphics that had been completed; the idea that the hand-drawn style was a Writer Revolt was the result of misinterpreting comments that the team were "fighting back" against pre-rendered graphics, and indeed the use of them in Yoshi's Story just two years later showed that Nintendo wasn't outright hostile towards the idea.
• What Could Have Been: There was a period in development where the devs considered using an Original Generation baby wizard character instead of Baby Mario. This isn't a Dolled-Up Installment situation; Mario was the original idea, the devs just thought of replacing him but ultimately decided not to.
• Working Title: Early prototypes of the game featured the subtitle Super Mario Bros. 5, playing off of the original Super Mario World being subtitled Super Mario Bros. 4 in Japan. The Super Mario World 2 subtitle given to the game internationally carries on this idea, albeit less overtly than originally intended.

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