Yoshi's Safari, released in the year 1993, is a light gun shooter video game that comes under the Yoshi, Mario video games series. Nintendo R&D1 developed the game, and Nintendo published it for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the only game in the Mario franchise to feature first-person shooter gameplay.
The story begins when Mario and Yoshi, his pet dinosaur, go on a quest to protect and save their Kingdom of Jewelry Land from the evil antagonist Bowser and his Koopalings as they have kidnapped the Kingdom's rulers and stolen 12 gems.
The game has 12 levels where the player sits on the dinosaur's back and shoots enemies using Super Scope at Goombas and Koopas, and collects coins and power-ups. When the player fires the Super Scope, they will drop a power gauge, while firing too quickly will deplete it and induce long pauses between shots, making players weaker to enemy attacks. At the end of each level, the player battles a boss fight with Bowser or an enemy, such as a Koopaling.
The player in Yoshi's Safari will earn an extra life if they collect 60 coins. Additionally, they will lose their life if they fail to finish the level within the allotted time, if they fall in a pit with less than three coins, or if enemies deplete their health bar.
To play Yoshi's Safari ROM, you need to download and install a Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator on your device. A few of the best emulators you can download to play Yoshi's Safari are BESNES, higan, JOHN NES, Nestopia UE, NES.emu, and OpenEmu, and SNES9X.
If you loved playing Yoshi's Safari, then you will also like other video games in Yoshi's video games series. A few of the similar games to Yoshi's Safari include: