Franchise file / Masahiro Sakurai
Kirby
Small, pink, always hungry
Masahiro Sakurai's round hero arrived on Game Boy in 1992 and has since inhaled his way through platformers, pinball, racing and puzzle games, mostly under HAL Laboratory.
- 1992
- First game
- 1
- Series
- Masahiro Sakurai
- Creator
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One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
Dream Land. A gentle Game Boy platformer came first. Kirby's Adventure then added copy abilities, and the idea has shaped nearly every main game since.
Start with Kirby's AdventureYour next late night
The essentials
A legacy worth revisiting
Swallow it. Become it.
Kirby's Adventure gave the series its defining trick in 1993: inhale an enemy and copy its power. Since then the games have tried almost everything, from yarn worlds and stylus-drawn paths to Air Ride racing. Forgotten Land took the mainline into true 3D in 2022.
- 1992 to 1997
- Dream Land
- 2005 to 2015
- Experiments
- 2022 onwards
- Into 3D
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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