The Dream Spring, the source of all dreams, has dried up, causing all the dreams of Dream Land to disappear. Now it's up to Kirby to rescue Dream Land!

Kirby's Adventure is an action/adventure side scrolling platform game. As the pink puffball Kirby you will explore numerous, colorful lands with a variety of enemies to defeat. To help out on his journey, Kirby has the ability to eat enemies and spit them out as projectiles. With certain enemies Kirby can capture their abilities and e.g. gain a sword, shoot lasers, or even fly around the level. There are seven different stages, each broken up into multiple levels, and sometimes also containing a couple of bonus mini-games. The game cartridge features a battery backup allowing games to be saved without the need for passwords.

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Alternate Titles

"星のカービィ夢の泉の物語" -- Japanese spelling
"星のカービィ夢の泉デラックス" -- Japanese GBA spelling
"Kirby: Schatten bedrohen Traumland" -- German GBA title
"Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland" -- GBA title
"Hoshi no Kirby: Yume no Izumi no Monogatari" -- Japanese title
"Hoshi no Kirby: Yume no Izumi Deluxe" -- Japanese GBA title

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Kirby's Adventure	NES	$9.95
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User Reviews

Original and cute adventure on the NES, but badly lack challenge and variety	Bregalad (819)
Cute, sweet and a good challenge for inexperienced platformers like myself	Pixelspeech (678)
In my opinion, this is another NES game that TOTALLY RULES!	Dark Cloud (35)
Kirby's Adventure = NES classic	Weston Sharpensteen (26)
Still awesome after almost 15 years.	Andy Social (18)

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The Press Says

Random Access	2005	9.5 out of 10	95
Nintendo Land	2003	93 out of 100	93
Just Games Retro	Aug 10, 2003		90
Game Freaks 365	Nov 01, 2007	8.6 out of 10	86
Quebec Gamers	Dec 25, 2004	8.5 out of 10	85
Jeuxvideo.com	Sep 08, 2010	17 out of 20	85
Total! (Germany)	May, 1994	2 out of 6	80
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	Jul 23, 2005	8 out of 10	80
Power Unlimited	Oct, 1994	7.8 out of 10	78
Nintendojo	Oct 17, 2006	7.2 out of 10	72

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Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Isn't the GBA version an enhanced remake?	5	Kabushi (88430) Jun 06, 2010
Such a popular game, yet no threads?	7	Simoneer (30) Jun 05, 2010

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Trivia

Final Level

The final level of Kirby's Adventure, leading to the last boss, is directly based on Kirby's Dream Land for Game Boy. The level is entirely black and white, the four areas are based on the Game Boy game's four levels, and the music is exactly the same as Kirby's Dream Land level 1 theme.

Size

The game was the second largest game (in megabits) to appear on the NES, weighing in at a hefty 6 megabits (768KB). HAL Laboratory's Metal Slader Glory takes the cake as the largest game on the NES, with 8 megabits (one full megabyte) of data.

Awards

The game received the following awards:

NES Game of the Year in the 1993 GamePro Editors' Choice Awards (Vol. 6, Issue 2)
#150 out of 200 of the "Greatest Games of Their Time" by EGM Issue #200 (Feb. 2006)

Information also contributed by Big John WV and Tiago Jacques.

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This entry was contributed by CrankyStorming (1510), Kartanym