About the Game: Kirby's Dream Land[a] is a 1992 platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. It is the first game in the Kirby series and marks the debut of Kirby. It introduced many conventions that would appear in later games in the series. The game follows Kirby as he goes through five levels to retrieve the Sparkling Stars and food of Dream Land from King Dedede.
Kirby's Dream Land was the debut game of designer Masahiro Sakurai. He intended it to be a simple game that could be easy to pick up and play by those unfamiliar with action games. For more advanced players, he offered additional optional challenges such as a hard mode and the ability to edit Kirby's maximum HP and starting number of lives. Kirby's Dream Land was re-released on the Nintendo 3DS via the Virtual Console in 2011;[4] it is also one of the games included in the compilation game Kirby's Dream Collection for the Wii, released to celebrate the series' 20th anniversary.[5] The game was included as part of the Nintendo Classics service in February 2023.[6] The game was the highest grossing in the series, with 5,130,000 copies sold, until being beaten out 30 years later by Kirby and the Forgotten Land.[7][8]
Kirby's Dream Land topped the Japanese Famitsu sales charts from May 1992[27][28] to June 1992,[29][30] and in the United States topped Babbage's Game Boy sales chart in October 1992.[31] The game sold more than 1 million units worldwide as of March 1993.[32] By 1997, 4.6 million units had been sold.[33] As of 2010, it has sold in excess of 5 million copies worldwide; Gamasutra cited its new style of gameplay for its success. At the time, it was HAL Laboratory's most successful game.[34] Gamasutra's Osamu Inoue attributed the game's success to Satoru Iwata, formerly an employee of HAL Laboratory, who Inoue comments has a "simple-minded passion for creating games".[34]
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DEVELOPER: HAL Laboratory PUBLISHER: Nintendo SYSTEM: Game Boy (original) / Game Boy Color (color patch) RELEASE YEAR: 1992 GAME FILE: Kirby's Dream Land (USA, Europe) PATCH NAME: Kirby's Dream Land DX Revised v1.0 & Kirby's Dream Land DX - Fluffy Repair Service v10.4
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