From 1993, it just goes to show how far the NES had come along in its graphical capabilities from 1985. :idea:
User Rating: 10 | Yoshi no Cookie NES
While I had my fair share of fun playing the Game Boy and the Super NES versions of "Yoshi's Cookie," I unfortunately missed the NES experience of the game the first time around. But now that I have finally played it on the Virtual Console of the Wii, I can safely say that it is a completely enjoyable experience! :!: The game starts off easily enough when it teaches you the basic ropes of how to rearrange the rows and columns of four different types of cookies: Hearts, flowers, circles, and checkers. The goal of the game is that you have to line up at least two or more of the exact same kind of cookie in a row in order to get rid of that type of cookie, but it's not as easy as it sounds. Because there are additional rows and columns of cookies coming in from the right side and the top side of the screen at random speeds with random arrangements of cookies, players will soon find themselves having to work fast and furious, figuring out the best way to remove all the cookies from the screen, and advance to the next round. In addition to the four regular cookies, if you remove the same type of cookie enough times, you'll eventually get a Yoshi Cookie, which acts like a wild-card Cookie, and allows you to eliminate any of the four types of cookies as long as the Yoshi Cookie is lined up with a row or column where all the other types of cookies are the same types of cookies. The more cookie rows and columns a player can eliminate at one time, the higher their score will multiply and accumulate, but be careful! Because the longer each player takes to finish each round, the faster the cookies will zoom in from the right and from the left, and if cookies reach all the way from the left to the right or from the bottom to the top of the playing area of the screen, it will equal game over for the player. But the game over is pretty merciful in this case, as you can choose to have unlimited continues, pick up right on the stage where you were stumped before, and try a different strategy that might work better than the last one. The single player experience alone is pretty fun in itself, but the multiple player experience is where this game truly becomes challenging, as the rows and columns you clear becomes additional rows and columns that your opposing player has to clear as well! The music, sounds, and graphics of this game are top-notch by NES standards; as they approach very close to early Super NES standards of graphics, showing that the NES had come a long way since the block-type pixels of "Super Mario Bros." to a top-notch graphical presentation of "Yoshi's Cookie." And the little movie segments between each level of play is fun and funny to watch as well. With 10 levels of difficulty each with 10 rounds and 3 different speed settings to try, there are a total of 300 different kinds of challenging puzzle difficulties to overcome in this game, it equals a plethora of challenges that's hard to find on any other game for the NES, which is why this game shows that for the creative and the innovative, there are always new ways and possibilities for old systems to prove their creative worth. :) I highly enjoy this game, and I highly recommend it to families looking for a fun, multiple player experience! :idea: Enough said! ;) 
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