Kirby's Adventure (NES)

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Description

One day Kirby is surprised to discover that he cannot have any dreams during his customary after-lunch nap. Soon he discovers that King Dedede has stolen the Star Rod, which supplies the energy to the Fountain of Dreams, and broken it into several pieces, entrusting each of his allies with one. Kirby has no other choice but find these pieces and bring dreams back to the Dream Land.

Kirby's Adventure is an action side-scrolling platform game. As the pink puffball Kirby the player explores 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
• "Hoshi no Kirby: Yume no Izumi no Monogatari" -- Japanese title
• "3D Classics: Kirby's Adventure" -- Nintendo 3DS title

Part of the Following Groups

• Game Center CX challenge games
• Game Feature: BGM/Music Player
• Kirby games

User Reviews

Original and cute adventure on the NES, but badly lack challenge and variety	Bregalad (968)
Cute, sweet and a good challenge for inexperienced platformers like myself	Pixelspeech (1006)
In my opinion, this is another NES game that TOTALLY RULES!	Dark Cloud (35)
Kirby's Adventure = NES classic	Weston Sharpensteen (32)
Still awesome after almost 15 years.	Andy Social (18)

Critic Reviews

NES Times	May 28, 2007	10 out of 10	100
Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the NES Library	2016		100
Random Access	2005	9.5 out of 10	95
Nintendo Magazine System UK	Jun, 1993	93 out of 100	93
Just Games Retro	Aug 10, 2003		90
Retro Game Age	Oct 10, 2014	9 out of 10	90
Quebec Gamers	Dec 25, 2004	8.5 out of 10	85
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	Jun, 1993	33 out of 40	82
RetroGame Man	May 04, 2017	8 out of 10	80
Nintendojo	Oct 17, 2006	7.2 out of 10	72

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Isn't the GBA version an enhanced remake?	5	Kabushi (209748) Jun 06, 2010
Such a popular game, yet no threads?	7	Simoneer (37) Jun 06, 2010

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.

Related Web Sites

• Kirby's Rainbow Resort (Fantastic megasite with everything you ever wanted to know about Kirby.)