Kirby's Dream Land
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| Developer(s) | HAL Laboratory |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Masahiro Sakurai |
| Producer(s) | Makoto Kanai |
| Composer(s) | Jun Ishikawa |
| Series | Kirby |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy |
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| Genre(s) | Action, platforming |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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Kirby's Dream Land is an action-platform video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy, which released in 1992. It is both the first video game in the Kirby series and the debut of Kirby himself. Being the inaugural Kirby title, it created many conventions that would appear in later games in the series, including Kirby's basic moves. However, Kirby's trademark "copy" ability would not appear until Kirby's Adventure, released less than one year later.
Kirby's Dream Land was designed by Masahiro Sakurai, who intended it to be a simple game that could be easy to pick up and play even by those unfamiliar with action games. He offered additional optional challenges for more advanced gamers such as an unlockable hard mode and the ability to edit Kirby's maximum HP and starting number of lives. Kirby's Dream Land was re-released on the Nintendo 3DS via the Virtual Console in 2011 and was also one of the games included in the compilation game Kirby's Dream Collection for the Wii, released to celebrate Kirby's 20th anniversary.
The gluttonous King Dedede has stolen all of the food from the inhabitants of Dream Land for a midnight feast, so Kirby, a resident of Dream Land, goes to retrieve the food and stop Dedede. Kirby's Dream Land plays like other platformers of the 8-bit and 16-bit era of video games: Kirby must use various natural abilities and occasionally items or power-ups while heading toward the goal at the end of each level where a boss is fought. All levels are played on a two-dimensional plane, letting Kirby move only left, right, up, and down. Kirby can walk, jump, and fly. Kirby can also inhale objects and enemies, swallowing them or spitting them out as projectiles. However, in contrast to later games in the series, enemies' powers cannot be copied.
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