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`Yoshi's Island' revived for Game Boy Advance.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| October 01, 2002 | Antonucci, Mike | COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Freshness, originality and innovation have become astoundingly dispensable qualities for some of Nintendo's big Game Boy Advance titles.

The latest game to be resurrected from the Super Nintendo days of the early and mid-`90s is "Yoshi's Island," released this week for GBA.

It's too familiar to seem brilliant, and it would be too promotional to call it "classic." But it's terrific, and at the common sale price of $25, a steal.

Video games often defy succinct synopsis, and "Yoshi's Island" isn't easily summarized for many reasons. Its sense of humor, for example, is overwhelmingly visual.

It won't make you laugh out loud to read that ...

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