10 Obscure Video Game Spin-Offs You Totally Forgot Existed
3. Yoshi's Safari
With Yoshi having made his big-screen debut in Super Mario World to a rapturous reception, Nintendo decided to start pushing the lovable dinosaur to be the star of his own show. Now, one option would've been to put him in a 2D platformer, but no, Nintendo figured to go all off-the-wall about it and cast him in an on-rails shooter that utilised the Super Nintendo Super Scope. For all its weirdness, Yoshi's Safari is, pardon the pun, a great blast. Made using the flashy Mode 7 graphics that were the basis for games like Mario Kart and F-Zero, the game looks beautiful as you automatically run around the on-rails worlds (that look alarmingly similar to Mario Kart), shooting iconic baddies from the Mario series. The shooting in the game is actually done by Mario who's riding Yoshi, which technically makes this a first-person on-rails shooter that you play from the plumber's perspective - a strange thought... Yoshi's Safari never got a widespread release, but it was one of the more enjoyable spin-offs in a series that's been filled with some pretty awful ones. This next one being a case in point...
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