Cookie chaos!
Yoshi's Cookie is a puzzle game developed by Tose and released in 1992 for Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy with a version developed by Bullet Proof Software one year later for Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is a tile-matching puzzle game where the player has a field of cookies of six various types and must eliminate them from the field by lining them up in matching columns or rows. This is done by moving a cursor in four directions and then moving individual rows left and right or columns up and down.In 1994, National brands released a themed sequel named Yoshi no Cookie: Kuruppon Oven de Cookie with a limited run of 500 copies in celebration of the release of the Kuruppon Oven.
This game has the following tropes:
- Adaptational Job Change: Mario is a baker in this game.
- Difficult, but Awesome: Bowser in the multiplayer mode. Players using him need to make matches quickly as he has the shortest time limit, but he comes with a higher attack stat than everyone else, meaning the duration of his attacks against others is twice as long.
- Dolled-Up Installment: The game was originally an unrelated puzzle game
with an alchemy theme known as Hermetica (later renamed Archimedes) that was turned into a Mario game shortly into development. The "Hermetica" name can still be seen in the Game Boy version's debug menu. Yoshi's Cookie also got a Hello Kitty-themed reskin for the Game Boy Color in Japan called Hello Kitty Bead Studio. - Glass Cannon: Don't be fooled by Peach's 3 in defense. Due to how the game calculates effects done by other players by multiplying attack and defense, this means that effects attacking her last longer than those affecting someone like Yoshi. However, her roulette of possible events goes faster than everyone else, so if the possible event is negative, she has less time to wait for a positive one than say Yoshi.
- Level Ate: The entire game has a bakery theme and cookies are the puzzle pieces used for play.
- Palette Swap: Doing well in the versus mode of the Super Nintendo version will have palette swaps of Mario, Yoshi, Princess Peach, and Bowser to compete against.
- Product Placement: The themed special edition is an advertising game with heavy placement for the Panasonic Kuruppon Oven.
- Public Domain Soundtrack: Hermann Necke's Csikós Post plays over the type C game for the NES and Gameboy versions and Vs Game B in the SNES version.
