Kid Kirby was meant to be a “prequel” of the serie, a platform game with a younger Kirby (with hair?) that was in development at DMA Design, the makers of Uniracers, Silicon Valley and Lemmings. A little image from this game was already seen in an old magazine, but only recently we found more concepts from the project, thanks to a flickr account from an ex-DMA developer. From an article on Gamasutra we read that Kid Kirby “was to be a showcase for the SNES mouse, but the mouse did not sell that well and the game was not great when played with a joypad, so it never saw the light of day”.
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9 Responses to Kid Kirby [SNES - Cancelled]
Cubivore10
November 15th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Whoa….this actually seems like a logical thing to do with Kirby…back in the 90’s companies where often making T.V. show characters into kids. They had, Scooby Doo, Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, all into a “kid” style…
jaz
November 16th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Whoa, never heard of this before looks pretty interesting, though the Tintin-Kirby looks kinda weird.
Jamesthebutler
January 24th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
The first and fifth picture looks really good. Don’t know if it’s in-game though.
person
February 10th, 2009 at 12:32 am
are there any actual gameplay shots?
monokoma
February 10th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Not that i know, but we could try to ask to MikeDaily
person
March 11th, 2009 at 1:28 am
ok…..I would be interested to see how the gameplay worked!
A Pikachu fan
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:54 am
Awww! He look’s soo cute. x3
Kirby
August 29th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Wait..Kirby’s a baby so..He’s..Huh?
He’s from the past, right? So, this was before he came to the future?
Makubeku
November 30th, 2009 at 6:32 am
this was before kirby was intended to be a baby