Mario and Yoshi are filling in at the cookie factory, and they need your help!

Another Mario puzzler? Say it ain't so! Like Mario & Yoshi (Yoshi in the US), Yoshi's Cookie is a lesser known title than Dr. Mario and Wario's Woods, which is mostly because, well, it's not that interesting.

To its merit, it's not another falling block puzzler. In fact, this is one of the more unique puzzlers on VC. The objective is to create lines of cookies in order to make them disappear. You will start out with a "block" of them, and new pieces will gradually approach from the right and top. You play by putting your cursor on a cookie, pressing the action button and then moving the D-pad: this moves the entire row of cookies left/right or the entire column up/down, depending on what you pressed. Like a Rubik's cube, the cookies will "wrap around", so if you, say, move a column up, the top cookie will appear at the bottom.

After clearing the entire playing field, the next stage begins, and this pretty much goes on until you lose, as in Dr. Mario and other puzzlers. If you get down to one remaining column/row made up of different cookies, it won't be auto-cleared (because there's nothing to match them with). Two cookies is the minimum required to make one disappear, so you'll have to wait for more cookies to attach from the sides.

Besides the main mode, there's not much else, really, just a two player versus mode. If you have some confidence in Nintendo, I would suggest waiting/hoping for the SNES version of the game to show up instead. Aside from obviously improved graphics (it uses some Super Mario World sprites and backgrounds in addition to new ones) and sound, it's got an added puzzle mode and some amusing cutscenes (the NES version also has cutscenes but they're pretty basic and very short).