Kirby

Eight adventures where the smallest hero eats the biggest problems. Gentle difficulty, genuine craft.

12 games in this room

Sakurai was twenty-one. His goal: make a game anyone could finish. Kirby's Dream Land (1992, Game Boy) — the debut of a face

Game Boy

Kirby's Dream Land

星のカービィ

Platform · 1992

Kirby's Dream Land, released in April 1992, is the debut appearance of Kirby and the first game in the series. Its direc…

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Largest ROM of any licensed NES cartridge — on hardware Nintendo considered obsolete. Kirby's Adventure (1993, Famicom) debut

Family Computer (Famicom) / NES

Kirby's Adventure

星のカービィ 夢の泉の物語

Action Platformer · 1993

Released in 1993 as one of the Famicom's final great titles, Kirby's Adventure introduced the Copy Ability — Kirby's ico…

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Masahiro Sakurai replaced the pinball with Kirby. Kirby's Pinball Land (1993, Game Boy) — boss fights, battery saves, and a g

Game Boy

Kirby's Pinball Land

カービィのピンボール

Pinball · 1993

Released in November 1993, Kirby's Pinball Land takes the most rule-bound game in the arcade — pinball — and quietly dis…

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Special Tee Shot — a finished golf game with no Kirby — was repurposed when Kirby proved popular. Kirby's Dream Course (1994,

Super Famicom / SNES

Kirby's Dream Course

カービィボウル

Sports / Puzzle · 1994

Released in September 1994, Kirby's Dream Course is a miniature golf game where Kirby is the ball — launched from a tee,…

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Finish without all seven Rainbow Drops and you see a fake ending. Dark Matter hides from anyone who does not look. Kirby's Dr

Game Boy

Kirby's Dream Land 2

星のカービィ2

Action Platformer · 1995

Released in March 1995, Kirby's Dream Land 2 introduced three animal friends — Rick the Hamster, Coo the Owl, and Kine t…

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Gunpei Yokoi — inventor of the Game Boy — produced this just before leaving Nintendo. Kirby's Block Ball (1995, Game Boy): Ki

Game Boy

Kirby's Block Ball

カービィのブロックボール

Action / Puzzle (Breakout) · 1995

Kirby's Block Ball is a 1995 breakout-style action game developed by HAL Laboratory for the Game Boy, in which Kirby him…

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The boss-rush mode here directly inspired All-Star in Super Smash Bros. Seven games in one cartridge — Kirby Super Star (1996 Uncommon

Super Famicom / SNES

Kirby Super Star

星のカービィ スーパーデラックス

Action / Platform · 1996

Kirby Super Star — known in Japan as Hoshi no Kirby Super Deluxe — is the 1996 Super Famicom game directed by Kirby crea…

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Released in America before Japan — rare for Nintendo. Kirby's Dream Land 3 (1997, Super Famicom) was the SNES swan song, buil Uncommon

Super Famicom / SNES

Kirby's Dream Land 3

星のカービィ3

Action Platformer · 1998

Kirby's Dream Land 3 (1997) is HAL Laboratory's final chapter in the hand-drawn Kirby aesthetic — a Super Famicom platfo…

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Kirby's Star Stacker (Game Boy, 1997) — HAL Laboratory's first original-mechanic puzzle game. Rick, Kine, and Coo fall in pai Uncommon

Game Boy

Kirby's Star Stacker

カービィのきらきらきっず

Puzzle · 1997

Released in January 1997, Kirby's Star Stacker arrived as HAL Laboratory's first puzzle game built on an entirely origin…

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Six years before the Wii Remote, a tilt sensor lived inside the cartridge. Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble (2000, Game Boy Color) — nev Uncommon

Game Boy Color

Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble

コロコロカービィ

Action / Puzzle · 2000

Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble (2000) is one of Nintendo's earliest experiments with motion-based controls, using a tilt sensor b…

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Sakurai avoided playing this game during development so his opinions would not override the director. Kirby 64 (2000, Nintend

Nintendo 64

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

カービィ64 クリスタルのひみつ

Action Platformer · 2000

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (2000) is Kirby's only mainline entry on the Nintendo 64, and HAL Laboratory's boldest expe…

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Planned for Nintendo 64 in 1996, cancelled, then finished for GameCube seven years later. Kirby Air Ride (2003) — Sakurai's l

Nintendo GameCube

Kirby Air Ride

カービィのエアライド

Racing / Action · 2003

Kirby Air Ride (2003) is one of the GameCube's most unusual Nintendo games — a racing title stripped of acceleration and…

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