When was the last time you killed a frog from inside of its stomach, or embarrassed an enemy to death by destroying its clothes with eggs? Yeah, this game was seriously twisted, but I loved it for that reason.Įventually, this newly found obsession with fighting bosses caused me to daydream at school. Not only were these bosses massive in size, but they were also completely insane in appearance and more often than not, required the player to think outside of the box in order to win the power struggle. Naturally, the epic boss fights in Yoshi’s Island amazed the crap out of me back then, as I had never seen anything like them prior to that game. and Yoshi’s Island were released, I didn’t own an NES until years after its launch, and as a result, missed out on a huge portion of the system’s library as a young gamer growing up in the 90s. While I’m obviously discounting many games that came out in the time between Super Mario Bros. He’s arguably the most iconic boss character ever, even if the process of defeating has always been incredibly straightforward (in the original Super Mario Bros., anyway). When I thought of videogame bosses as a kid, the first thing that would always come to my mind was Bowser. Hit the jump to see how one fateful Super Nintendo game was able to have such a large impact on my childhood, as well as how it went on to affect my taste in games.
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Up until that point, playing games had just been an activity to pass the time, not necessarily something I considered to be a hobby of mine.įor some reason, it was Yoshi’s Island that made me realize how much I adored games and also revealed which aspects of games in particular made them so appealing to me beyond the obvious “fun factor.”
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island may not have been my first videogame, but it was the game that single-handedly changed the way I viewed gaming.