Yoshi's Story Playthrough (Actual N64 Capture) - Stages 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1 & 6-1

[Note: This video and description were originally posted on Youtube on March 7, 2016.]

This is a capture of me playing through Yoshi's Story for the Nintendo 64. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my Nintendo 64 using an actual Yoshi's Story cartridge. I'm playing through the game while collecting all 30 melons per stage.

I've had people request this game for quite a while now, so here it is. Since Yoshi's Story is a 2D game and doesn't really push the Nintendo 64 all that hard, it runs at a solid 60 fps. Not many Nintendo 64 games do that.

As I recall, I received Yoshi's Story for my birthday in 1999, along with Rampage World Tour. After playing Rampage with friends, I popped in Yoshi's Story to see what it was like. Boy, was I in for a surprise.

Yoshi's Story is actually one of my least favorite Nintendo 64 games (along with Bass Hunter 64), and one of the most disappointing games I've ever owned. I was a huge fan of Yoshi's Island on the SNES, so when Nintendo Power started showing off pictures of Yoshi's Story, I became really excited. I thought Yoshi's Story would be a Yoshi's Island 2, but it wasn't.

Instead of progressing through interesting and challenging levels filled with a variety of enemies, you simply eat a ton of fruit until Yoshi goes on an acid trip and gets high as shit. Then you start the next world. This pissed me off to no end because the fruit-eating mechanic basically took away all the challenge and incredible level design from Yoshi's Island. Also, since you only had to beat one stage to complete each world, the game felt short and unrewarding.

Yoshi's Story was also incredibly childish to the point it made me want to puke. Although Yoshi's Island was arguably somewhat childish based upon its crayon style and Baby Mario, it had a sense of humor similar to Super Mario World and awesome music as well. Yoshi's Story simply felt like it was made for Kindergartners. To me, it marked the beginning of the downfall of the Yoshi series.

After I completed Yoshi's Story once, I basically ignored the game and hardly touched it again. But even though I hate this game, I won't let that stop me from uploading a playthrough on Youtube.

I decided that I should collect all of the melons in each stage for my playthrough. There's no special reward for doing this, but it gives me a higher score and makes the playthrough a little more interesting, I think. Also, since I have the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide for this game, it makes it pretty easy to find all the melons, so I might as well do it.

I'm posting four separate videos to show off every level in the game. I hope you enjoy the footage, because I'm really torturing myself here.

These stages were not completed back-to-back in a single session. I simply edited the successful runs together for a single video.

Stage guide:

1-1: Treasure Hunt - 0:19
2-1: Bone Dragon Pit - 7:02
3-1: Cloud Cruising - 17:43
4-1: Jungle Hut - 27:00
5-1: Lots o' Jellyfish - 36:43
6-1: Mecha Castle - 44:55

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official N64 S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the N64's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

I'm using a standard N64 controller.