Kirby's Adventure

Kirby's Adventure
North American box art
Developer(s)	HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Masahiro Sakurai
Producer(s)	Satoru Iwata Shigeru Miyamoto Takao Shimizu
Designer(s)	Masahiro Sakurai
Composer(s)	Hirokazu Ando
Series	Kirby
Platform(s)	NES, Nintendo 3DS
Release date(s)	NES JP: March 23, 1993 NA: May 1, 1993 PAL: December 1, 1993 Nintendo 3DS NA: November 17, 2011 PAL: November 17, 2011 JP: April 25, 2012
Genre(s)	Action, platforming
Mode(s)	Single-player

Review scores
Publication	Score
	3DS	GBA	NES	Wii
AllGame	N/A			N/A
EGM	N/A	8/10	8.25/10	N/A
Eurogamer	N/A	7/10	N/A	7/10
Famitsu	N/A	35/40	N/A	N/A
Game Informer	N/A	8.75/10	8.5/10	N/A
GamePro	N/A		20/20	N/A
GameSpot	N/A	7.9/10	N/A	7.3/10
GameSpy	N/A		N/A	N/A
IGN	8/10	8.5/10	N/A	9.5/10
Nintendo Power	N/A	4.2/5	N/A	N/A
Aggregate score
Metacritic	77/100	81/100	N/A	N/A

Kirby's Adventure is a 1993 action-platform video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. It is the only NES game in the Kirby series, and the second after his debut on the Game Boy in Kirby's Dream Land. It also features the first appearance of Meta Knight. A remake of the game for the Game Boy Advance, titled Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, was released in 2002. Kirby's Adventure was re-released on the Wii via the Virtual Console in February 2007. A 3D Classics version was released for the Nintendo 3DS eShop in November 2011 and a Virtual Console version for the Wii U was released in April 2013.

Like the majority of Kirby video games, Kirby's Adventure is a platformer. The game consists of seven worlds, each containing a set of regular levels, a boss fight, and a Warp Star door which enables Kirby to travel from world to world. Most worlds also contain mini-games which allow Kirby to gain extra lives, museums where Kirby may gain certain powers, and/or Arenas where Kirby must battle with a mini-boss to win health items and allow him to copy the boss' special ability. The game was the first in the series to include a save feature and it automatically saves the player's progress after each level.

The objective of each main level is simply to reach its end. If Kirby touches an enemy or a dangerous object, he takes a point of damage, and if all of his hit points are lost or he falls off the bottom of the screen, the player loses a life. Kirby can touch or eat food items to immediately replenish health or gain temporary invulnerability.