Game Theory: Yoshi's Identity Crisis! What is a Yoshi?

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in 1995 it was translated as yah look look I mean the games They tell us what he meant. be a dinosaur, but is it like that?

So today I wanted to answer the question what the hell is a Yoshi exactly? We are analyzing his behavior and his biology to determine exactly what they are or what dinosaurs and, if so, what type of dinosaur. They are and along the way we may find the solution to how he became the long-tongued, egg-pooping Green Death Machine that we all know and love, who knows well the answer to that one is it's me, I know and the answer. Yes, we are going to answer who is behind the ending of this episode, so stay tuned, it's good for the anti-Nintendo viewers who are there while you come from the Minecraft fans and fandoms.

Yoshi was introduced in Super Mario World in 1990 and has been in 101 games since then, from the NES to the most recent Mario and Sonic at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, making him something of a strange piece of history at this point. , the Olympic Games are delayed until next year, meaning the only official Olympic games of 2020 will be a competition between two fictional game universes. I wonder if they'll re-release it for next year anyway, according to Nintendo's official magazine, the inspiration for Yoshi began with a little lizard creature called Tama Gong, star of the 1984 game Devil World, you know that beloved Nintendo franchise, We descend onto each double hockey stick and use crosses to defeat the devil carrying his red speedometer, yes, that little green dinosaur carrying the Bible. is our first version of Yoshi, so from that hallowed beginning of being the savior of humanity, Yoshi was demoted and in his first official appearance in Super Mario World he basically functioned as little more than a cute mount to swallow goombahs and be sacrificed without Pity in Lava Pits, but quickly became a fan favorite, earning spin-off titles and even a starting spot in the hit franchise.

He is iconic for inhaling almost anything and instantly turning it into an egg, including babies. Yes, he can even eat baby Mario Revenge and babies have never tasted so sweet. So what exactly is this baby eating well reptile in the original Japanese version of Super Mario World? Yoshi writes us a letter in the message box right outside his house and signs it as Super Dragon Yoshi Supporting the idea that Yoshi here is a dragon instead of a dinosaur is the fact that there are dragon coins hidden throughout of the stages in this game, coins that you wouldn't know have Yoshi's face on them, which says that those are really the only two major cases where Yoshi is considered a dragon in pretty much everyone else. multimedia article since then he is considered a dinosaur in Smash Brothers 64 his trophy says quote Yoshi is the friendly dinosaur in hand-to-hand combat again quote The Yoshis are gentle floating-legged dinosaurs end of quote and we return to that original appearance in Super Mario World, in both English and Japanese If you have the game set up as Dinosaur Land with Yoshi listed as a young dinosaur in the original manuals, it's also worth noting that most, if not all, enemies in the Mario games are can be simplified into an animal or plant inspiration, for example all the other residents of Dinosaur Land Reznor Rex and Dino Rhino all have clear counterparts in real-life prehistory.

Reznor da is a triceratops, although the name Rex might make you think this guy is a t-rex that Miyamoto gave some wings to and called an enemy. the design is actually inspired by the Ceratosaurus. They both have horns on their snouts. They walk on two legs. They have teeth that hang from their mouths. It is likely that they had tone from the belly to the back. Rex's height in the game even matches his real-life height. of the closed soros slightly larger than that of an adult male, finally, the Dino rhinos are clearly proto Sarah police, although a little larger with their stocky quadropod body, hornless head and a small bird-shaped bead, so, Where does this leave Yoshida?

I don't really have any defining exchange that clearly goes back to the dinosaurs we know off the top of our heads, so what is it exactly? Well, let's start by defining Yoshi's characteristics. Yoshi is also taller than Mario at 175 centimeters stated in a previous video with soft green fur along his back on a white belly. Red spikes along the spine leading to a shell that was originally a saddle, so I'll take that with a grain of salt talking about eggs. The Yoshis are hatched from a hard-shelled egg as shown in their hatching animation in Super Mario World for the SNES egg breaking and splintering.

Their head is very large, especially around the nose, they have a thick, stubby tail and the species can be found in all types of climates throughout the Mushroom Kingdom, from scorching deserts to frozen tundra and last, but certainly not least, we have Yoshi's long prehensile tongue which he uses to catch Bowser's minions, so that in that arsenal of information we can quickly and systematically narrow down what Yoshi is using, please, ooh, that's drum roll on the same very special episode should probably get to what I'm about to reveal, which I guarantee you will It will be disappointing cladistics the classification of animals and plants according to the characteristics they have in common, come on guys, that is totally worth a drum roll, remember law school cladistics domain kingdom phylum class order family genus species and all that if you Have you forgotten or never learned it because no one is learning it from any of the online classes going on right now, here's the mnemonic device you won't learn Forget about drunk kangaroos hitting kids on game shows relatives or you know what there is always the classic "Dear King Philip came to look for some great sausages.

I think you can replace that with the appropriate word wink-wink, nudge-nudge." Anyway, what this is all going to do is let us narrow down what Yoshi is so we can put him next to the appropriate similar creature just to cover our bases. I'm going to start with the highest level of classification, Yoshi is eukaryotic, meaning his cells have a membrane-bound nucleus, which puts him under the domain of Eukarya his kingdom is Animalia since he is a multicellular animal and. must be on the Chordata edge because Yoshi has a backbone. Now those are three super broad classifications, but in those three quick steps we've already eliminated about 97% of all the animals on earth which really puts things into perspective, right?

Isn't that right? Leaving philosophy aside and putting phylogeny back on the table, we now enter the classification segments that are based on traits and physical characteristics that we established before that Yoshi is a dinosaur, which puts him in the class of sauropsida, the classification where reptiles and birds are found, from here things start to get a little complicated, although there are two orders in which we can put Yoshi to fly his Kea or his nits Kea, which means lizard hip or bird hip respectively and, as you can imagine, this is based off the structure of the pelvis of animals, really the difference comes down to the location of the pubis.

The pubis, not this bone here, the pubic bone, but how can we properly verify the location of Yoshi's pubis when it comes time to look at the skeletons of fictional characters. video game creatures there's only one place to turn: Super Smash Brothers 64 and Pikachu's shocking ability oh oh that's horrible Yoshi not only has no pubes but literally no pelvis he's completely made up of ribs apparently just a big old wall having ribcage, okay, maybe Nintendo hasn't really given us an accurate official readout on the state of Yoshi's skeletal system, so we'll have to approach this issue in a different way, the order or tissues Kia is made up of the margin of Ornithopods Assefa Lia and Flora Theory Now, don't worry if those words don't mean anything to you.

I'm barely keeping his pronunciations together. I literally just looked up how to pronounce them all so I don't completely destroy them. I'm just going to simplify them. For you, ornithopods are dinosaurs that walked mainly on two legs, eight legs and had a small beak like the Iguanodon or the dry asaurus. They're pretty much dinosaurs with funny looking skulls and bony frills on the back of their heads like a triceratops or that little ring you see on those charging guys that always appear in the Jurassic Park movies, those guys, by the way, are They call them pachycephalosaurs and they always make me think they have a bald spot on the top of their heads, like someone forgot. to put on the toupee and lastly there are the offerings of thyri, which means shield bearers, these are the guys with body armor like the ankylosaurus and the stegosaurus and,Looking across these three categories, Yoshi doesn't fit into any of them that he doesn't have. a beak or any kind of strange skull extensions outside of its enormous nose and it doesn't have any kind of scaly body armor, so by process of elimination it's pretty solidly in the order Souris Gaea, which itself is divided into two subs. main. order sauropods, massive long-necked dinosaurs like the brontosaurus, definitely not Yoshi and theropods, carnivorous bipedal dinosaurs like the t-rex and allosaurus, known for walking fast on their two legs, eating meat, and using clawed fingers, I don't think that is necessary. discuss this more Yoshi's order sorry skia and his suborder is therap oda no doubt what also helps support this idea is that Nintendo's official name for the dinosaur Yoshi his scientific name is T

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Nobody really knows. Nintendo never came out and said it, but I'm going to say it right here. I think the T actually stands for theropod, theropod, uh, Yoshi's or chews a coupon, it really works, it would be its official scientific name, so let's recap here the kingdom Animalia phylum Chordata. disruptive class or order Subordinate theropod Sora skia ah, we're almost there, all we need is your genus and a species, so until now We've focused on the little things, right, Yoshi sells his hips and his pubes, now we just have to look at the big picture. Common traits of each Yoshi include that huge horn on his face, the ruffles on his back that are always red no matter what. his skin color is about the size of an adult man and boots, so all we really need to identify Yoshi is to find an IRL dinosaur in the theropod, a suborder with large-noded red spines, a height of about 175 centimeters and a set of perms. footwear and after going through the entire dinosaur encyclopedia, I think I have it.

Yoshi's closest dinosaur relative is none other than Can I Get A Drum Roll? Please, okay, three drum rolls in the same episode. I'm simply overusing and editing tropes for dramatic and also comedic purposes. effect, but seriously, this is getting a little gross, so let me tell you it's the lava soros monkey, a medium-sized bipedal carnivore that lived in western China during the Jurassic period. He is known for the unique crest on his skull that gives the front of his face a rounder, more bulbous feel like our little Yoshi. It is believed that the crest could have intensified its powerful roar.

In fact, height-wise, they fit perfectly with the model officers standing almost exactly three-quarters of a meter high, which is exactly what they are. where Yoshi sits, was also known to be a very communal pack hunt, as we see with the Yoshis living together and building a society together. The area where Monell's office fountain was found also showed signs of ancient water, leading researchers to believe these dinosaurs lived. near the shores of lakes and oceans which again look at where Yoshi's houses are in Super Mario World right on the water line and the fact that they have an entire Yoshi island in the next game I just want to be clear here, no I'm saying Yoshi is an office or Monell assistant, but based on all the evidence as presented, he is most likely a distant relative of the office hours model, which brings me to the biggest problem in all of this, what What about the multicolored skin, the long one?

Language, the whole omnivore thing and the egg-laying pit. I think all of this actually has an explanation under the modeling office. The Soros angle. Yoshi Island is surrounded by water, so let's assume some modeling office or the PSA modeling office or I was stranded on that island. and kind of like Darwin's finches, only the model office supplies that had the right adaptations are actually able to survive on that island and survival means food, so how are those office supplies going to find some food? model? Well, let's see what's on the menu while you look, from Super Mario World to Yoshi's Island, there aren't many things to eat on that island, the game is mainly filled with koopa troopas whose shells can't be swallowed, piranha plants, griffins and lava blogs that Yoshi can't swallow. eat and are shy, which may or may not be native to the island in the first place.

In short, actual edible meat on the island is relatively scarce, meaning that the monolith asaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur, would have to start expanding its range. eating habits of the locals. It fruits the local fish, but the asaurus monolith has small arms, they can't climb trees to get the fruits we see growing on them on Yoshi Island, and they like mangoes and bananas, so what can it do right? You can develop a long neck or better yet, a long tongue that allows you to get fruit and the island's quick Goonies and Gus T, and then what about the fish?

Well, there are a lot of bugs in the ocean, but the modeling office fountains don't really swim well, we better get started. developing soft skin that will serve you better in an environment where you need to move through water. Note that Yoshis are not particularly good at swimming, they can do it when they need to, but it is not just their natural thing to adapt at its best and finally. What about its coloring? Why do they come in so many different colors, like bright reds and vibrant greens, but also faded blues and browns? His adaptation Super Mario World 2 shows us how colorful Yoshi's island is with bright red flowers, large green jungle plants, but also massive blue-gray cave systems and brown mountains so Yoshi needs food wherever they can get it in This island, they evolved to present a great variety of colors to survive, remember their community, in many cases they are working together to unite their food together and so we have how a big-nosed bipedal carnivorous monolith asaurus with more than generations slowly turns into charcoal neon and numerous long-tongued

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saur munchakoopas, which finally brings us to the most important question of all eggs: how is each Yoshi capable of laying? eggs for that I point you all in the direction of another reptile, the New Mexico whip, a species of lizard that is completely female and still reproduces, that's right, zero males suck that Bechtel test through a form of reproduction Called parthenogenesis, this lizard is capable of doubling the number of chromosomes and its reproductive cells twice begin a forced cell division giving its eggs the correct number of chromosomes.

I mean, they're certainly not doing it at the rate that Yoshi's are pooping eggs, no, maybe we'll chalk that up to miracles too. from nature, so could it be that each Yoshi is just a female descendant of an asaurus monolith, let's put it this way, it's all just a theory, game theory, thanks for watching and remembering holographic switch case, jacket holographic, the foldable jacket, the wallet? tie day hoodies, hats, they are all available right now, right below this video, click there to order yours today, no false rush except you have to place an order for us to make it for you in a reasonable period of time, without madness. mix up just a few products made to keep you warm help you feel fresh just bring us all a little happiness I'll see you all next week.