Kirby's Dream Land

North American cover art.

Kirby's Dream Land is an action platformer developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo on the Game Boy in 1992. It is the first Kirby game and, since Kirby's ability to steal powers from the monsters he's eaten has not yet been established, the game plays more like a basic platformer.

I first played this game after already having played a couple later Kirby games, so I was very disappointed by the lack of stealing powers, and it was so short and easy, I beat it on my first attempt.

Status

I do not own the game, but I have beat it.

Review

• Overall: 3/10
• Best Version: Game Boy

Good

• The graphics are nice and cute and a lot of the characters seen in later games are introduced.
• The cuteness of Kirby, especially, is really wonderful.
• The game has a pretty complete manual.

Bad

• Overall, the game is kind of dull.

Ugly

• The game is too easy. Even younger kids won't have much difficulty beating it.
• At only five levels, the game is incredibly short, easily beatable in a single play-through.

Media

Box Art

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  The Japanese box features a reddish Kirby standing in front of a grided background collage of the game characters. I like the curved text, but it's a bit plain.

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  The American box has a white puffed-up Kirby in front of the boss of stage 1. The art is really good, and the lettering is simple, but effective. I prefer this box.

Documentation

• Kirby's Dream Land - GB - Manual.pdf

  Game manual.

Maps

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  Stage 1: Green Greens.

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  Stage 2: Castle Lololo.

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  Stage 3: Float Islands.

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  Stage 4: Bubbly Clouds.

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  Stage 5: Mt. Dedede.

Videos

• youtube.com/watch?v=gU6cHCkWqy8 - US commercial.
• youtube.com/watch?v=qQpH9F1a4d4 - Japanese commercial.
• youtube.com/watch?v=giWzzjEgGIM - Longplay.

Titles

Language	Native	Transliteration	Translation
English	Kirby's Dream Land
Japanese	星のカービ	Hoshi no Kabi	Kirby of the Stars

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