What can chiptune music do that real music can’t? An exploration of the history of chiptune as a style using Kirby’s Adventure.
Kirby
Kirby’s Dream Buffet is more like cold gas station sushi than an all-you-can-eat feast, but if you’re hangry for more Kirby, check this.
Kirby’s Dream Land shows its age in many ways but it marked the first outing of Sakurai’s pink (or white) puffball hero.
“Nintendo games are for children and you should be ashamed for playing them as an adult”. Guess what? They don’t care.
Cut from the same cloth as previous Kirby adventures, Epic Yarn is sew good, at least it seams that way to me… but let’s not get a thread of ourselves… is it a “kiddie” game? Quilty as charged.
“Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together”
-The Turtles
Kirby is celebrating his 24th anniversary, in America, today. His first game was released in April twenty-four years ago, but didn’t get released in America until the first of August. I know. Little Kirby is in his mid-twenties already. They grow up so fast.
“What is your Favorite Video Game Franchise?”
“Who is your Favorite Video Game Protagonist?”
“It was tough for me to see that every time I made a new game, people automatically assumed that a sequel was coming…”
-Masahiro Sakurai
