Several websites that covered recent Virtual Console releases recommended that players refrain from purchasing "Yoshi". Nintendo World Report stated that "there's too much luck and chance in the game to make playing it satisfying," and Joystiq also stated that "while gameplay is admittedly a pretty interesting way to spend an afternoon, it still feels like kind of a ripoff." Jeremy Parish of "1UP.com" stated that the gameplay in "Yoshi" was "not enough to justify the asking price 500 points," though he later stated that, compared to the "uninspired" "Yoshi's Cookie", "Yoshi" was "decent and actually had some relationship to the Mario series."