Kirby's Adventure facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Kirby's Adventure |
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| Developer(s) | HAL Laboratory |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Masahiro Sakurai |
| Producer(s) | Satoru Iwata Shigeru Miyamoto Takao Shimizu |
| Designer(s) | Masahiro Sakurai |
| Programmer(s) | Hiroaki Suga |
| Composer(s) | Hirokazu Ando Jun Ishikawa |
| Series | Kirby |
| Platform(s) | NES, Nintendo 3DS |
| Release date(s) | NES
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| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Kirby's Adventure is a platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is the second game in the Kirby series after Kirby's Dream Land (1992) on the Game Boy and the first to include the copy ability, which allows the main character Kirby to gain new powers by eating certain enemies.
The game was published by Nintendo in Japan on March 23, 1993, in North America in May 1993, and in Europe on September 12, 1993.
The game centers around Kirby traveling across Dream Land to repair the Star Rod after King Dedede breaks it apart and gives the pieces to his minions. The game consists of forty-one levels across seven worlds.
Masahiro Sakurai returned as director after serving the same role for Kirby's Dream Land. He conceived the copy ability to add more challenge and replay value. The game was also the first Kirby game to introduce unlockables for finding certain items hidden throughout the levels.
Because the NES hardware had greater graphical power than the Game Boy and programmers were skilled with the now antiquated hardware, HAL Laboratory was able to create impressive visuals. Kirby's Adventure is the first game to depict Kirby in color. Sakurai had always planned him to be pink, much to the surprise of other staff.
Kirby's Adventure was well received and commended for its tight controls, level variety, and the new copy ability. It was remade in 2002 for the Game Boy Advance with enhanced graphics and multiplayer support, titled Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land.
The original NES version was re-released later on Nintendo's Virtual Console digital distribution services, Nintendo Switch Online, and with stereoscopic 3D for the 3D Classics product line for the Nintendo 3DS. Journalists have ranked it among the best NES games.
Kirby's Adventure is available in emulated form through the Virtual Console digital distribution service. It was released on the Wii Virtual Console worldwide in February 2007 and on the Wii U Virtual Console in April 2013. The GBA version was released on the Wii U Virtual Console in 2014.
The NES version is also included in Kirby's Dream Collection (2012), a compilation of Kirby video games that commemorates the series' 20th anniversary, and on the NES Classic Edition (2016) dedicated console. It was added to the library of NES games available through the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service in 2019.
Images for kids
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Kirby inhaling a Hot Head in the first stage in Vegetable Valley
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The NES was already on the market for eight years when Kirby's Adventure was released.
See also
In Spanish: Kirby's Adventure para niños
