Kirby - Videogame History #55 - Retro Review
Throughout history Nintendo has captivated us with many characters which became great sagas in time, each has features, design, curiosities, among other things that make them unique and original, this makes us a good I remember each one of its videogames, no matter how funny or difficult it was, this time we opened a small portal to the past to learn the history of some of the most iconic characters in the world of Nintendo, our pink companion Kirby.
Since its inception Kirby was well received by the gamer community, each of its video games transmitted excellent gameplay with a simple but original story, although it is a well-known character very few people know its curious origin, its first game or its creator, we will take a brief walk through history to know a little about the past of this peculiar character.
It all starts in 1991, a videogame programmer named Masahiro Sakurai is assigned a special task of designing a game that was simple and addictive for non-experienced players for the Game Boy, in that year Masahiro was only 19 years old, what would be his first video game directed by him in its entirety with the help of HAL Laboratory, a videogame developer that worked for Nintendo.
Masahiro already had some ideas on how to create the video game, however, he needed the most important, the sketch of the main character, one day thinking about how to create this character he drew a small circle with two eyes and a smiling mouth, this little sketch to the team HAL Laboratory liked them a lot, although it was very simple they seemed very striking as well as perfect for the type of audience it was intended for, then decided to put some small hands and feet, this little character at that moment called him " POPOPO ".
Approximately 1 year was the time it took Masahiro for the total creation of the video game jointly with the developer team HAL Laboratory, once completed took his work to Nintendo, one of the things that changed was the name of the character, it was called "POPOPO" to officially "Kirby", this name occurred to some of the directors of the company Nintendo because at that time there was a company of vacuum cleaners with that name and the special ability of this character was to suck their enemies, so They left that peculiar and curious name.
When Shigeru Miyamoto (creator of Mario Bros) saw the design of the video game he liked it very much, in the sketch of creation of the cover for the game considered that Kirby was yellow, since at the time of the presentation of the video game to be blank and black was not defined any color for the character for being a game of the classic Game Boy, however, Masahiro did not like that his character was of this color, so he decided that the pink was the most indicated.
The game was approved by Nintendo making it an official video game of the aforementioned company, launching it in 1992 with the name of Kirby's Dream Land, Masahiro was really excited as it was one of his main dreams as a video game programmer, achieving a great target at a young age, as a curious fact when the video game was placed on sale in North America the pink color of Kirby was replaced by white, for the simple fact that in the Game Boy did not have the color that indicated in the Japanese version.
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Masahiro to see how popular this game became decided to make a sequel, this time for the 8-bit console, the NES, in 1993 was released under the name of Kirby's Adventure one of the most memorable games of this great console, in this If you could appreciate the color of our iconic character, staying in the memory of many gamers like the pink ball, this video game would be the essential basis of Kirby's abilities for all its sequels, that's why it is considered one of the best games of all.
Over time Kirby was more popular among gamers, becoming known in each of the generations of Nintendo consoles, due to how simple and fun their games became a gamer icon from its beginnings to the present, personally I consider that each of their video games are excellent, sometimes you can be somewhat easy, but the real reason that their video games are of low difficulty is for the simple fact that it is designed for those people who are entering this great world.
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