Most games treat drugs with a high degree of absurdity. Just about any mysterious substance ingested by your character sends them on a harrowing spiral into another dimension, or at the very least something which alters your perception to the point where you lose about 80% of your control over your avatar. The depiction of intoxication in Yoshi's Island may be all cutesy and 'Nintendo', but to an eight-year-old me experiencing it for the first time, it was one of my first insights into the world of drugs, and was probably a gateway to me becoming obsessed with eating furballs in the hope that they send me loopy. On the level, Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy, Yoshi turns into a wobbling, stumbling mess whenever he comes into contact with mysterious floating fuzzy balls. The effects of consuming these balls are powerful Yoshi gets the visual distortions of LSD, the dis-coordinating effect of Ketamine, and the wide-eyed, dilated eyes of a tweaking meth fiend. Of course, in my childlike mind, I just thought "Awww, silly Yoshi's gone all dizzy", but looking at the game now, it's perfectly clear to me that Nintendo's been forcefully feeding its iconic dinosaur a powerful cocktail of drugs for years to keep him sedated.