User blog comment:Brickkart/Something I Always Wanted To Do/@comment-7116899-20130513214942/@comment-7116899-20130514011400

So Yoshi gives you the extra lives... where did he get them from? He dies every time you jump off his back in one Mario game!

Maybee he falls down there to collect the sprites that you lose when you die, and then gives them back to you ontop of the castel! O_o