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Shinichi Shimomura was notorious game developer for Hal Labs for not having a public image despite being the director for the Dark Matter trilogy. It was rumored that he didn't exist or was an alias for someone else up until a Kirby's Dream Course guide book was unearthed.
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Sakurai with the Kirby disco ball that was used in the Japanese commercial for Nightmare in Dreamland.
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Kirby's Dream Buffet gives AI-controlled Waddle Dees and Kirbies randomly selected names, most of which are references to the rest of the Kirby series. There are 12 unique names for Waddle Dees and 180 unique names for Kirbies.
Below is every selectable name in American English.
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Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe contains unedited voice samples for Magolor, originally recorded by Hirokazu Ando.
Below is every sound file that can be found within the demo's BFSAR sound archive.
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Did you know the canceled Kid Kirby game for the Super Nintendo was not being developed by HAL? But rather being developed by DMA Design which wpuld later become Rockstar North? The guys responsible for the Grand Theft Auto series.
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All music present in Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe that comes from the original game was remastered in higher fidelity and features adjustments in mixing and sample quality.
Below is a comparison between select songs.
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New Kirby's Adventure concept art from the latest Masahiro Sakurai video.
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Kirby GCN leftovers in the Kirby Return to Dreamland Deluxe Demo that are not present in the original Wii version of the game.
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Hiding the meshes of Magolor's model from the Nintendo Switch Kirby games reveals that the only fully modeled part of his body is his head, which is a sphere.
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Development screenshot of Kirby Super Star. Game was being developed on the famicon for internal testing.
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In Kirby Star Allies' Soul Melter EX difficulty of The Ultimate Choice, Void's opening attack greatly resembles Yukari Yakumo's Spell Cards "Boundary Between Form and Emptiness" and "Boundary Between Wave and Particle" from Touhou Bunkachou ~ Shoot the Bullet.
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IT'S BEEN MADE OFFICIAL: Kirby has no bones and no teeth by extension.
see below: twitter.com/kaialone02/sta…
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Shigefumi Kawase: We need a dark and light theme for this new game we're working on do you have any ideas?
Hirokazu Ando:
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Kirby separated from the car in Car Mouth mode.
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King Dedede blowing a kiss at the player.
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New scans of the Kirby GCN section from the 20th Aniversery art book!
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