Yoshi's Origin Story - Restoration and Translation
This morning I stumbled upon a tweet from user coolestfucker showing a link to artwork of the original "Yoshi" game on MarioWiki#Scans)
They are scans of an Official Nintendo Guide Book for the puzzle game. A handful of pages of the guidebook are actually just a short origin story of how Yoshi was born. The story is really cool and I'd never seen the artwork before which I thought was beautiful.
I tried finding an English version of the book for sale online but couldn't find it with the artwork. So I thought I'd do two things:
- Restore and fix up and the scans to extract only the artwork without any text.
- Do an English translation of the text and create a small PDF as if it were a short story of Yoshi's origin.
A few liberties I took:
- Front cover: Logo: which I took the coloring inspiration from the Japanese lettering but with the English logo. Removed publishers and promotional messages. Added the NES instead of Famicom.
- First page: Kept it with a focus on the art and story by removing the "Yoshi's Egg".
- Last story page: Combined both text boxes into one.
- Back cover: Removed ISBN/Serial code to match front cover
Here's a Google Drive link to the 7 artworks with no text + the translated PDF book: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-5X5GDLp5q7TPZWaQQDu6E78s9nJgvFb?usp=share_link