The Ghost of RubangB said:
Ah, Wikipedia. Let me copy and paste it in here: "His debut was in Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, although he can be seen in Super Mario Bros. 3 when the king of world 7 gets turned into one, and Yoshi would later have his own series with several platform and puzzle games, including Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island." His debut was in Super Mairo World, although... blah blah blah. In fact, I think I'll fix that incorrect Wikipedia article myself. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I thought we were talking about a different dinosaur in SMB3. In world 7 of Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES, the king has been turned into a PIRANHA PLANT. They changed this into a Yoshi for the Super Mario All-Stars compilation on SNES. They changed several of the kings in All-Stars to other familiar Mario characters, like Monty Mole, Lakitu, and Alabatross and whatnot. Yoshi debuted in Super Mario World. If you want to argue this you'll need to doctor some screenshots by splicing Yoshi out of one of his later NES puzzle games into SMB3.
Regarding Tetris, it was programmed in 1985. Several unofficial/unlicensed/illegal versions floated around eastern Europe for a while, so if you want to count the Tengen one, you have to count all those and go back to 1985 when it was programmed. The first legal licensed home console/handheld version was officially released in 1989 on the Game Boy, and was the main reason to get a Game Boy. Then it was released on the NES. Atari made the arcade game, and through their Tengen branch they made Tetris for the NES, but it was unlicensed. However, they only owned the arcade rights, not the home console rights. They were taken to court by Nintendo, and they lost. (A 3rd company held the home computer rights to Tetris, and Nintendo had to prove in court that the Game Boy was a video game console and not a computer. They proved this by showing that it has no OS and can only work with a game cartridge inside.) If you think beating Nintendo to the punch with an illegal copy of Tetris counts as "the first release," then you need to count the several other previous illegal copies that were on the PC before then. Pick 1985 on PC or 1989 on Game Boy.
EDIT: I have fixed the Wikipedia error on the Yoshi page, so if you go there again, you will no longer be misinformed. The correct information was/is also available on the Super Mario All-Stars page, in a list of differences from the original games. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_All-Stars#Super_Mario_Bros._3
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This doesnt change the fact that the first self-titled Yoshi game was on the NES.
As for Tetris I guess it's a matter of opinion (like Contra, Punch-Out and Ninja Gaiden). All those games became popular on the NES (yes even Tetris!) It's no coincidence if Tetris was bundled with the Game Boy, the game already proves itself before on the NES.