10 Video Game Vehicles You’d Be Crazy To Actually Use
2. Yoshi - Super Mario World
Animal rights activists would have a field day if you sat them down to play Super Mario World.
You’ve all probably heard this one a million times, but when Mario mounts his cheery green dinosaur companion in arguably the best Mario game ever made, his solution to getting Yoshi to do what he wants him to is to beat him into submission. Punching Yoshi on the back of the head makes him stick his tongue out, grabbing fruits and enemies and providing other useful services.
Cruelty aside, when standing back and assessing the situation, the strangeness of Yoshi himself is worth noting. He’s a bipedal dinosaur with a gigantic nose, that has conveniently evolved a shell on his back perfect for sitting on. Baby Yoshis mature into adult yoshis by relentlessly eating enemies, and nothing that he eats ever seems to give him indigestion.
He’s weird, and wonderful, and a design staple of gaming. Heck, he can hover by magically concentrating hard enough. You can’t not love him.