How Kirby Went From an Unpopular Concept to a Nintendo Icon
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2024
- Kirby was the highest voted character in my recent poll on who you wanted me to cover next. I'll be honest, I played many of his games but I feel like I know nothing about him. So, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! In this Origin Oracle, we go into the classic Kirby games to see how he was created, how he got his name, and how Kirby's first game almost crashed and burned.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro to Kirby
00:37 - Kirby's Dream Land - Kirby's First Appearance
05:08 - The Conception and Development of Kirby
08:25 - How Did Kirby Get His Name? | From Popopo to Kirby
11:44 - The Story of Kirby's Adventure
18:16 - Kirby's Pinball Land | Kirby's First Spinoff Game
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Credits:
Kirby’s Dream Land - Retro Archive
Concept Art for Kirby’s Dream Land - wikirby.com/wiki/Kirby%27s_Dr...
Kirby’s Dreamland Death Animation - classicgameover
Super Smash Bros Kirby Copy Ability - KokiriGaming
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - RetroArchive
All Lololo and Lalala Battles & Appearances in Kirby Games - Zephiel810
Evolution of Whispy Woods Battles - ProsafiaGaming
All Kabula Battles & Appearances in Kirby Games - Zephiel810
Evolution of Kracko in Kirby Games - RetroArchive
Kirby and the Forgotten Land All 256 Figures - BeardBear
All Poppy Bros. Sr. Battles & Appearances - Zephiel810
Kirby's Return to Dreamland Scarfy - Shadow - Resho Gaming
Eggerland (FDS) - Nenriki Gaming Channel
Kirby Enemies - digton
Kirby Nightmare in Dream Land 4 Player - Sleepy
All Magolor Battles & Appearances in Kirby Games - Zephiel810
Evolution of Galacta Knight in Kirby Games - Zephiel810
Kirby On Star Pixel Art Gif - GreenStarLover
Hal’s Office - James Montagna
Kirby with Gun Pixel Art - Logan-PB
Super Mario World - Typhlosion4President
Mario Falling In Pit - ThEighthSage
Let's play Metal Slader Glory - MrAndersonPlaysGames
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Nintendo Unity
Evolution of Kirby Games [1992-2023] - Eryx Channel
Kirby Super Star - SomeGuy712x
Kirby’s Adventure Gameplay - Zebra Gamer
Kirby’s Adventure New Famicom - Justin Klee
Kirby’s House Nighttime Fan Art by Takeshre
Kirby’s Adventure All Copy Abilities - RetroArchive
Kirby's Adventure All Copy Abilities - Nintendo Utopia
King Dedede Holding Lays Chips
Kirby's Adventure Gameplay Walkthrough - Zebra Gamer
Kirby Games Collection - Nirbion
If Kirby Grabs a Warp Star, The Game Switches! (1992-2022 | 30 Games) - RetroArchive
Kirby's Adventure - All Cutscenes (All Intros & Ending) by Retro Archive
Kirby's Adventure - Level 8: The Fountain of Dreams - Megaman NG
Doki Doki Panic - Episode 7 [FINALE]: The Dream Machine - Lavender9999
Kirby’s Adventure Boss 3 - BossBattleChannel
Meta Knight and Kirby Dance - Cerebrum
Kirby's Adventure - All Bosses - NintenU
Kirby Nightmare in Dream Land - All Bosses (No Damage) - Prosafia Gaming
Kirby's Pinball Land - Full Game Walkthrough - Retro Archive
Kirby's Pinball Land - Commercials collection - vini64
Pokémon Pinball - All Bosses - NintendoUnity
Nintendo 64 Longplay [005] Super Smash Bros. by World of Longplays
Music:
Kirby’s Nightmare In Dream Land - The Fountain of Dreams
Kirby’s Dream Land - Green Greens
Kirby’s Dream Land - Castle Hall
Kirby’s Dream Land - Castle Lololo
Kirby’s Dream Land - Float Islands
Fukkatsu! Eggerland - Land (GM Version)
Kirby’s Dream Land - Roasted Sweet Potato Shooting
Kirby Super Star - Peanut Plain
Kirby Super Star - Corkboard
Kirby Super Star - White Wing Dynablade
Kirby Super Star - Dynablade Overworld
Kirby Super Star - Hilltop Chase
Kirby Super Star - Save Hut
Kirby Super Star - Run, Kirby, Run!
Kirby Super Star - Battle Windows (No Background Noise)
Kirby Super Star - Grape Garden
Kirby Super Star - Flying Through Outer Space
Kirby's Dream Land - Title
Kirby's Adventure (NES) Music - The Fountain of Dreams
Kirby's Pinball Land - Ending ~ Table Reset
Kirby's Pinball Land - Boss Battle
Kirby's Adventure (NES) Music - Ending Theme
Kirby's Adventure (NES) Music - Orange Ocean 1
Title - Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land OST
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land - Inside the Boss Tower
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land - Ending
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land - Title - Hry
Please never call kirby the king of suck again
"Kirby sucks and is made of wind" - The Quarter Guy
I mean one of the best vacuum cleaners on the market is a Kirby
Ikr that’s my Title
The suck god
(Dedede laughing)
The entire Kirby lore went from a cutesy, wholesome story of a pink ball who fights against a penguin to fighting against Eldritch entities and catastrophes that gives HP Lovecraft a run of his money and it all came from a butterfly.
A few things everyone should know about kirdy:
1. Kirby is a pink guy
2. Kirby is very cute
3. Kirby inhales his enemies and makes it later
4. Kirby is so happy that something he can because he's very cute
Also he's the name you should know!
@@eugeniomorichon5624and he’s the star of the show!
@@Existant_one And I need a "monstah" to "clobbah" him
What a triumph is that?
You forgot that he loves food
While Kirby did flat out swallow and digest his enemies into his blackhole stomach in the original series of games, things would ultimately be changed by 2006 with Kirby: Squeak Squad, and Kirby: Right Back at Ya! half a decade before it. While it would never be depicted again, Squeak Squad introduced the mechanic of Kirby having a stomach dimension, where some items and Copy Abilities would be stored for selectable use via the touch screen. In other words, it basically canonized that Kirby's prey don't get digested. They are in a separate dimension inside of Kirby, only let out when Kirby wishes to remove them from his body through expelling a Copy Ability. When I really think about it, it's probably a fate worse than death.
kirby doesn't have a dimension inside of him, it's just his stomach that can hold like 5 items. whenever kirby inhales an enemy, they just reapper someone else. the whole pocket dimension thing is exclusive to the non-canon anime.
quote from shinya kumazaki: director of the series since 2008:
"Instead, we have this comical, funny depiction where the enemies poof. When an enemy or creature gets swallowed by Kirby, they may disappear but they do resurface somewhere else in the world."
@@RHVGamer Huh. Well, my mistake, then. Still scary, but thankfully not at all permanent...
Unless ... what about Hypernova?
@@SmokeTheHorsehog not that scary. for example, bandana waddle dee gets inhaled/defeated by kirby in revenge of the king, and only a couple minutes later reappears to watch kirby and masked dedede fight.
for hypernova, there's no reason for it to be different, since it's just a powered up version of kirby's inhale. the only one who died from that was sectonia, when kirby spit her laser right back at her, since if he didn't stop her she would have taken over popstar.
@@RHVGamer what about Flowery Woods? Once she's sucked in, we never see her again.
@@SmokeTheHorsehog we just don't see it again because it's at the end of the game
kirby’s adventure is one of the most beautiful games i’ve ever played. the colors are GORGEOUS
One of the best looking NES games in my opinion. They did so much to make it a drastic improvement over Dream Land
Definitely one of the games that still holds up today, whether it's the NES or the Gameboy Advance remake.
@@TheMentok One of? you mean the best looking NES game, Mario 3 be damned.
Personally, I think saying that Kirby lore is deep is disingenuous, but it invites a lot of speculation and leaves intriguing questions. Not sure if the series ever plans on answering said questions though
Agreed
I don't want anyone to play the games expecting super in depth lore the whole time, they're going to be very disappointed. The most they'll get is some pause screen lore.
Can’t wait for you to get more in depth with Kirby! Personally my fav series of all time.
Will say, the Lore doesn’t REALLY start til around 2000, then kinda vanished for a while since Kirby has being handled by other companies. only to later come back in full force and tie like EVERYTHING together in the modern era starting in 2011. It’s a wild ride
Looking forward to getting into the nitty gritty. I’m sure there have been a ton of lore videos already but I’m now taking this on to satiate my own curiosity 😂
@@TheMentokSo, a little heads-up about about the lore, because it can be easily missed. In every mainline Kirby game starting in Kirby Super Star Ultra (the DS remake of Super Star), some bosses (I don't remember exactly which) have descriptions that contain more information about the series lore if you pause the game during their fights. Starting in Triple Deluxe, *every* boss has a pause screen description. Bosses that transform and get a new health bar mid-fight tend to have different descriptions each phase, same applies with boss rematches in extra modes. In Forgotten Land the lore is contained in some in-game collectible figures instead.
Also, both Return to Dreamland and its remake have a secret dialogue you can get from talking to a character after doing 100% on hard mode. Also also, some of the lore for Triple Deluxe and Planet Robobot was not revealed in-game, and was instead told through miiverse posts. Also also also, and I may come across as an elitist for this, but Planet Robobot and Star Allies at points suffer from wonky translation syndrome, so you might want to be on the lookout for that.
NiDL did remove some detail in some stages shockingly and lacked parallax scrolling in the backgrounds.
4:04, 8:17
Such iconic tunes. 😊
Gotta love Kirby. He's my favorite lovecraftian demon alien. 🥰🥰🥰
The Nightmare in Dreamland jingle has lived in my mind for decades 😭😭😭
I got Kirby's Dreamland for my 4th birthday - it was the first game that was all mine and I played the ever-loving hell out of it for a decade.
I'm just thankful that Nintendo (seemingly) doesn't have any large hand overhung over HAL Labs. the series barely had any rough patches barring maybe the DS generation. though i'm slightly surprised at the overabundance of kirby games, especially the spinoffs and microtransaction games; though they're mostly skippable for lore followers...for the most part. i'm assuming HAL internally retains a lot of kirby material, if filenames, textures and model names mean anything. heck, the Kirby Wii Switch remaster even had some files from the cancelled Kirby GCN w/a few animations and whatever else, which probably meant they had source code.
I find it very hard to believe they picked the name Kirby for one of their lawyers vs Kirby vacuum cleaners... given the fact Kirby is a living vacuum. I've heard that credit before but come on, there's no way that's just a coincidence.
I thought about mentioning the vacuums too but saw nothing that referenced them. My guess is that their American team added Kirby as an option because of the vacuums and the final decision was made in Japan for the reasons stated in the video. But that mostly speculation on my part
@@TheMentok My guess (but I have no evidence) is that he was named after the vacuums but they came up with an "official" story about their lawyer.
Very similar to how Tomy had a line of coin bank toys called Pac-Man that predate Namco's video game. (Both "Pac-Man" and the alternative spelling "Puck-Man" are written identically in Japanese.) You would put a coin in Pac-Man's hand, press down on it, and he open his mouth and throw the coin into it and close his mouth again. These toys came in yellow and various other colors. There was later a spin-off board game called "Pac-Man Game". (Well, not really a "board", but I'm not sure what to call it.) This game was released in the US as "Mr. Mouth" in the 1970s and into the 1980s.
This had to have been what Namco based their arcade game on, but now they tell the story of a guy being inspired by a pizza with a slice taken out of it.
Mr. Mouth was later changed to be a frog, and in Japan there was actually a Kirby version released.
Great deep dive into Kirby's history man! I still remember being a child and getting grossed out by a Kirby commercial featuring a fat dude eating everything in a buffet and ultimately exploding trying to be like Kirby lol. I also wonder if Akira Toriyama got inspired a bit by Kirby with Majin Buu since both characters are similar
I vaguely recall that commercial. I have to remember which one that was though. 😭
Pretty sure you're thinking of this Yoshi's Island commercial: czcams.com/video/F36fNqZN5lg/video.html
@@TyGuy2462 Yup that's the one, totally forgot it was a Yoshi one. Thanks for sharing
Cherished Kirby ever since I first discovered the series. I adore the series so much that a lot of my character/creature designs are based off of the series.
My boy's Kirby voice sounds like a coked out Elmo ngl
Reminds me of Chugga's Magolor voice
To add to the naming confusion about King Dedede, in French he's called King Dadidou
As a long time Kirby fan, it's always fun to see a new person hop in. It will be interesting to see what you'll find on your journey. As for the fabled lore, the only things I'll say so that I don't spoil anything is that it starts in the Wii era, is mostly subtext and *really* likes looking at the series at large.
Good to know the starting point! Probably why I don’t recall this type of lore because I fell off the Kirby series around that time. I’m excited to see where this goes
03:00 actually no. the inhaled enemies dont die. In an interview, it was confirmed they, after a short while after being inhaled/converted into a copy ability, they reappear somewhere on Popstar. yeah, the enemies dont die actually lol. Also theres no 'stomach'. It just a pocket dimension.
The name DeDeDe makes a lot more sense knowing that Kirby was going to be called PoPoPo.
this videos are really great i was just wondering if you could cover castlevania sometime seeing how u referenced it in some of your videos
The IBM thing is also why HAL 9000 is called HAL
What makes King DeDeDE different from Bowser is that he can be more of an anti villain
Nowadays, King Dedede seems to be no longer a villain anymore despite being mind-controlled by the main villains. Look how far he comes.
Thank you very much! For bringing up Kirby!
He ain’t a puff to mess with that’s for sure, the amount of strength this dude has never ceases to impress me
LETS GO NEW MENTOK DROPPED
Excellent research and presentation as always. I've gotten into Kirby a lot more recently, but missed all of these early titles, so it's nice to learn about them from a real life prophet. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I always love starting from the beginning. Always cool to see these humble beginnings and work up from there
Very good video! I wish you luck with figuring out the lore in future videos, since there's a lot of misinformation out there
This is what I've been waiting for. I'm so glad you're beginning to explore this series. Can't wait to see more, especially your reaction to the lore.
Out of all the series I’ve covered so far, I know about Kirby the least so this is a passion project of mine for that reason 😂 Glad to see you’re looking forward to future vids!
I needs to play those older games again. I remembered having so much fun with them. Thank you for explaining the storyline too. I love that kinda stuff. And the memes was funny. I don't remember if it was this video or the other kriby one...😂 But it was killing it. I watched them back to back
Great information and quite entertaining presentation! Keep up the quality videos. I don't even really care about Kirby and I watched it to the end.
Thanks for watching!
it's also worth nothing that Arthur C. Clarke's HAL 9000 could have been named with the same "IBM Letter shift" method as HAL Laboratories, in order to avoid being sued by IBM for writing a book about a rogue IBM 9000 computer killing the crew of a space ship.
Yes, I've definitely heard that HAL from 2001 was named by shifting the IBM letters.
I played the original probably 100 times as a kid, it was one of my favorite games lol. I think its on switch online, maybe Ill play through it again tonight, ot only takes like 2 hours, probably not even that
Kirby was always popular. Representing many of the best selling games. And Kirby's Adventure is one of the better selling games for the NES despite releasing in 1993.
Your Kirby voice is awesome.
17:50 Parodius
R.i.p original kiby
PUYO!
Well i'll be damned! Thanks Mentok!
I never played Kirby until after watching the cartoon. I love kirby💖
6:46
Why are showing Sakurai with a middle finger?
What happens if Kirby inhales another Kirby ?
I love 2d platformers, but i was never a Kirby guy, i have no idea why, Kirby games are perfectly fine but they just don't resonate with me. It's not because they are easy, because i like easy games as much as hard ones, and it's not because it's cute, because i do like cute games, i just dunno why Kirby does nothing to me. I still have a lot of respect for it though.
That's ok man, you just don't vibe with it
I think you might engage more with the platforming itself, known to be particularly easy in Kirby games due to being able to just say no to falling most of the time.
Aaaaah... _THE_ Pink Shoggoth x3
i got jumpscared by ssgv5 dedede
I love this Nintendo character!
My question should be: Why is Kirby popular with the ladies?
You know that's fan art right? 3:50
So at first he wasn't popular....so we gave him sucking powers and a HUGE mouth 😂
i love kirby
Kirby Kirby Kirby's the one
Who don't understand. Kirby is very cute.
and kill people.
Your Kirby voice sounds like Yakky Doodle Duck.
WD GASPER⁉⁉⁉
Dont worry
In french we call him "DaDiDou"
pronounced like "Dah Dee Doo"
The thoat goat
Kirby >>>
There will be more Kirby soon ;)
Sorry, but the only thing Kirby ever says is 'Puyo".
Great video, never do the Kirby voice ever again
Mmmm
Question to you all the first time you seek Kirby did you think is a girl the first time I see Kirkby I think he's a girl maybe because his voice
3:03 Worry no longer as nowadays we know that what he sucks gets transported to another dimension, not his stomach… yeah, I’m not sure if that’s better…
No, they just poof back to where they were sucked
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Na, I was 1 minute earlier 🎉