Yoshi's Cookie (Game Boy, Japanese Import) - Authentic Nintendo Cartridge, Tested
Nintendo's 1992 cookie-sliding puzzler, and the Game Boy version plays up to four with the Four Player Adapter and a cart each. Japanese needed: none.
$25.00
How I grade condition: every grade is tested and plays; grades differ only in looks.
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A puzzle game you fight on two fronts
Yoshi’s Cookie is Nintendo’s 1992 tile-matching puzzler, the same game you know with ヨッシーのクッキー on the label. Cookies pile in from the top and the side, and you slide whole rows and columns around like a Rubik’s Cube to clear a full line of one kind, with the Yoshi cookie as the wild card. Nintendo billed it as the follow-up to Yoshi no Tamago, part of its early-90s run of puzzle games alongside Tetris and Dr. Mario.
Four players, the Game Boy way
The Game Boy version can go to four players with the Four Player Adapter, each player on their own Game Boy with their own cart, with VS-mode chaos like PANIC! and BLIND. Famitsu scored it above the Famicom version, partly because nobody can see anyone else’s screen. Nintendo’s own Japanese page sells it on exactly that. (The SNES version is the one with Alexey Pajitnov’s puzzle levels.)
No Japanese at all
It is a puzzle game, with no save battery to worry about. A Yoshi game is an easy gift for a kid with a Game Boy, too.
Its predecessor, Yoshi no Tamago, is the puzzle game Game Freak made before Pokémon. Both are on the Game Boy shelf with the consoles to play them on.
Specifications
| Authenticity | Authentic original Nintendo cartridge (DMG-CIJ) - not a reproduction |
|---|---|
| Condition | Graded on my condition scale - every copy is opened, cleaned, and tested by playing before it ships. |
| Gameplay | Action puzzle, 1-4 players (2 by link cable, 3-4 with the Four Player Adapter; one cart per Game Boy) |
| Includes | Loose cartridge only (no box or manual) |
| Language | Japanese, none: a pure puzzle game |
| Region | Japanese release. Region-free: plays on any Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance or Super Game Boy |
| Save | None (no battery) |
| Title Full | Yoshi's Cookie / ヨッシーのクッキー (Game Boy, Nintendo, Japan, 1992) |
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