Fun tidbit: Yoshi's Cookie was originally designed as a competitive arcade game (under the title "Hermetica") at a company called Home Data, who needed a cheap and simple game to use up a bunch of old unsold arcade boards, but it never released because it bombed at location test. It wound up getting licensed by BPS in those post-Tetris gold rush years. The game's original designer and programmer, Alice Kagamino, was still active on Twitter last I checked a few years ago, and has talked about it in some detail.
As one of approximately seven Yoshi's Cookie fans in the world, that unreleased arcade version is still one of my holy grails. XD.
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