"Far from carrying as much weight as Nintendo's big name mascots, Kirby has kind of always just been around. Created by HAL Laboratories in the early 1990s, by the now-renowned designer Mashahiro Sakurai, Nintendo’s most rotund character was originally called Popopo and used as a dummy character for testing other games. Going all the way back to his first release on the Game Boy in 1992, the pink puffball is like the overlooked little brother at Nintendo – he shows up everywhere, usually tries something unique and experimental while searching to find his own identity, and never has as much money as the big kids, like Link and Mario, to spend on making people think he’s cool.
While he may not have the same household name recognition as his peers, Kirby does have 20 games with a headlining role, spanning just about every console Nintendo has ever released, so someone at Nintendo has to like him (hint: it's likely Nintendo of Japan President Satoru Iwata who worked at HAL Laboratory in Kirby's heyday). This year, Kirby turns twenty years-old, and Nintendo is celebrating his birthday in style with his own special game compilation, Kirby's Dream Collection, which brings together six of his early works on one Wii disc.", writes MTV Multiplayer.
GameZone takes a look back at the inaugural entry in the Kirby series.
I never played much Kirby before.But I just picked up the dream collection on the wii and these games are great!6 great games for like $20 can't beat that.Epic yarn and return to dreamland for the Wii cost more but are worth the money too.I do wish Nintendo would let us play them in color like you could on super gameboy,and GB player for Gamecube.They are probably just waiting to release those so we can buy the same game twice.Thank's Nintendo!lol
Kirby music has been charming players of the series with eccentric pops and cheery tones since the very first title in 1992. For the second episode of Tuesday Tunes on MoarPowah.com, I invite you to join me for a quick journey through the musical history of this beloved series.
Finally! I love Music from Kirby games! probably my favorite out of any video game series ever! I love Squeek Squad and Nightmare in dreamland! <3
Some of the best music in gaming.
Squeak squad has some solid tracks, although I'm only on world 3 or 4 so I have yet to hear it all.
So we are right at the end of 2012, and what a year it has been for gaming, with the start of the new generation of home consoles with the release of the Wii U, 3DS outselling the Vita, the final demise of the DS and a host of great games. However, which one do we think was the best release this year? Now were not accounting for sales of games, which would make Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and AC3 top our lists, were looking at innovative gameplay, a game that for us, was just better than anything else out there.
