OOPs features games that I wish I had purchased or played before they went out of print.
While I've played many of the games in the Mario series there are a few that I've missed along the way. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is one of them. Granted, it can be argued that it is not necessarily a core Mario game because its mechanics and hero are very different from the core Mario series. Rather than controlling the plumber, in this game, he is merely a baby and you control a yoshi instead. While still a platformer like its namesake, so much of the game works differently that you really could call it a different animal.
I remember watching this game at my friend's house when I was but a young lad and being surprised by its unique visual style and also by the different gameplay mechanics. Yoshi can, like in the original Super Mario World, swallow his enemies and turn them into eggs, but this time, he holds onto those eggs and can aim them at his enemies with many degrees of freedom. I did want to play it at the time, but when you're that young, there are only so many games you can buy and I was much more interested in RPGs, so that's where my money went.
Time has passed and after replaying a number of classic platformers, including others in the Mario series, I realized that I actually wanted to play this game too. Unfortunately, it's for the SNES and a Wii Virtual Console version has not been made available and, so, to play it, I would have to hook up my old SNES and purchase a working used copy of the game, which, goes for over $20 these days. So, instead, I'll wait until the game does eventually show up on the Virtual Console and download/play it then. I hope it does make a showing on the Virtual Console.