Yoshi's Island (1995-2002)

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995) was an amazing sequel to the already-brilliant Super Mario World (1990) for the Super Nintendo. Instead of controlling the usual Mario Brothers, this time around Yoshi is the star. And actually, this is technically a prequel because Yoshi is charged with protecting Baby Mario after Baby Luigi is captured. Eventually the game was re-released for the Game Boy Advance as Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (2002), which is the version I've been playing for a few months now. In terms of the GBA port specifically, it plays about the same as I remember. I haven't touched the SNES version in decades, but I can't imagine it being very different. As near as I can tell there have been no updates in graphics or sound (as they have done occasionally with Super Mario Bros refreshes) — which is a very important topic to get into right now. The music in Yoshi's Island is memorable but probably not as well-known as the original NES games (1 and 3), or the…