Kirby Air Ride (known as Kirby’s Air Ride at the time) was originally in development during the early days of the Nintendo 64. It went through many changes during its elongated development period (it looked like a snowboard game for some time and rumors say that this proto could have somehow evolved into 1080°) before eventually being canceled and then resurfacing on the GameCube in the form of a short video preview in March 2003 at the annual DICE summit in Las Vegas. We’ll never know how the various N64 versions could have been played, but the GameCube version is probably similar to the latest concept that Nintendo created for the N64.
[spoiler /Clicca qui per la versione in Italiano/ /Nascondi la versione in Italiano/]Lui è kirby, è una cosa rotonda e rosa, vola e mangia i nemici, è il protagonista di platform, picchiaduro, flipper e probabilmente altro ancora, ed allora perchè non farlo diventare una star delle corse? è questo probabilmente quello che i ragazzi della HAL hanno pensato mentre ideavano questo Kirby Air Ride. Probabilmente, cosi come l’idea era arrivata, è stata cancellata per N64, per poi venire riesumata su GameCube. Voci dicono che le basi del gioco furono in seguito riprese per costruire 1080° Snowboarding.[/spoiler]
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GameFan
http://web.archive.org/web/19970215190032/http://www.gamefan.com/download/nintendo64/kirbysairride/index.html
https://archive.org/stream/GamePro_Issue_106_Volume_09_Number_07_1997-07_IDG_Publishing_US#page/n39/mode/2up
Aka Kirby Bowl 64
https://archive.org/stream/GamePro_Issue_090_Volume_08_Number_03_1996-03_IDG_Publishing_US#page/n23/mode/2up
VideoGameSpot
http://web.archive.org/web/19970227164537/http://www.videogamespot.com/n64/pltfrm/kirbyair/index.html
Hey um creator of the site .. do you mine if i 1 day make a youtube video could i use your information and credit you??
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Sure! Feel free to use info and credit the source if possible, we are always happy when more people create videos about lost games :)
Some other people and I found more pictures of this game in a magazine called “Dengeki 64”!