~8 hours until Yoshi in Super Smash Reveal ! Next Nintendo Direct March 18 to announce Year of Yoshi. Year of Luigi will end soon.

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S.Peelman said:

zorg1000 said:

S.Peelman said:
I don't see why it would, 2014 is nothing to the character of Yoshi.

1984 was the year his character was designed, they decided not to add him in any games on NES due to limited hardware.

I'm not so sure about that, or the year 1984, I know they wanted Mario to have some sort of companion after the original Super Mario Bros., but serious design wasn't done until Super Mario Bros. 3 in the late '80s and even then they probably didn't have a 'final' Yoshi yet. In any case, Yoshi's first appearance was in Super Mario World in 1990 which I, and Nintendo probably as well, would consider the only date that matters. Maybe next year, at Yoshi's 25th.

Shigeru Miyamoto stated that Nintendo had wanted Mario to have a dinosaur companion ever since the first release Super Mario Bros.; however, it was not possible because of the limitations of the NES.[7] The inspiration for Yoshi can be traced back further, to the green dragon Tamagon in the 1984 video gameDevil World.

Stolen from Wikipedia