Hello,
I sense the time is upon us where you explain what exactly your sig is. There is much confusion and uncertainty bubbling inside me when i look at it.... i see some sort of picachu-like creatures in various obscene stances, all with different positions of social responsability such as 'hammer' or 'cutter'. Pray tell, what is the meaning of this?
I long to hear some sort of sensible & logical reason of why i should behold this far too brightly coloured interweb oddity several times a day. Please to be filling my head with knowledge regarding this subject, i would be ever so greatful.
Awaiting your reply in righteous angst,
Ryoki
Mr.Magnetichead
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Mr.Magnetichead
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It's a selection of some of the many abilities available to Kirby In 'Kirby Superstar'.
Kirby is a small, pink, round ball-shaped character with large feet and small arms. He is a fantasy character that was originally named Popopo, and the model was created as a blob placeholder sprite for them to use for development. After working with it for a while, Masahiro Sakurai started to prefer this design over the one they originally had in mind.
Kirby's color was a subject for debate in the beginning: Shigeru Miyamoto wanted to make Kirby yellow, whereas Kirby's creator Masahiro Sakurai insisted upon pink. Ultimately, Sakurai stuck with pink. It should be noted that, regardless of the choice, these colors would be depicted as a yellowish green on the Game Boy, the platform on which Kirby was to make his first appearance. Because of this ambiguity, Nintendo of America was left with a bit of confusion when the game was ported to the West. As a result, the American box art and cartridge label of Kirby's Dream Land features Kirby as white. The Japanese box art, however, correctly depicts Kirby as pink. In later games Kirby gained the ability to switch colors. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, the yellow, white, pink, blue, red and green colors appear as palette swaps for the character.
Kirby is an oddly heroic resident of Dream Land (Pupupu Land in the Japanese version), located on the Planet Popstar. The cute, peaceful residents of Dream Land often find themselves being terrorized by some form of evil creature, which Kirby must venture out to defeat.
Kirby's signature ability is to "suck up" enemies with his big mouth and swallow them, copying their powers. The Kirby games feature an enormous variety of powers to gain. Swallowing one enemy may grant him the power to shoot needles from his body; another may allow him to become a spinning wheel or a fireball. Kirby can also spit out objects that he's sucked up at high velocity to knock out enemies. Alternatively, the sucking power can be used to suck up air, allowing Kirby to fly. Kirby did not have the power to steal his opponents' abilities in the original 1992 game.
In later games (starting with Kirby's Dream Land 2 on the Game Boy), Kirby was assisted in his quest by three animal friends, Coo the owl, Rick the hamster, and Kine the ocean sunfish. Later, three more animal friends were introduced in Kirby's Dream Land 3. These were Pitch, a small green bird, Chu-Chu, a pink octopus-like blob with a red ribbon on its head, and Nago, a cat.
In some later games, Kirby also gains the ability to summon computer-controlled allies to help him in battle, such as the friendly monsters from Kirby Super Star, Gooey from Kirby's Dreamland 3, or the Mirror Kirbies Kirby and the Amazing Mirror. The E3 trailer for an upcoming Gamecube title also features multiple monster helpers, a la Super Star.
Also, Kirby's ball-like form has earned him a place as the ball in a number of sports or arcade type games, such as pinball and golf. (The golf game was actually a remake of a Japan-only golf game using the style of Kirby's games.) His ball-like form is taken advantage of in his latest game, Kirby: Canvas Curse for the Nintendo DS, in which a player uses a stylus to roll him around.
Kirby is a small, pink, round ball-shaped character with large feet and small arms. He is a fantasy character that was originally named Popopo, and the model was created as a blob placeholder sprite for them to use for development. After working with it for a while, Masahiro Sakurai started to prefer this design over the one they originally had in mind.
Kirby's color was a subject for debate in the beginning: Shigeru Miyamoto wanted to make Kirby yellow, whereas Kirby's creator Masahiro Sakurai insisted upon pink. Ultimately, Sakurai stuck with pink. It should be noted that, regardless of the choice, these colors would be depicted as a yellowish green on the Game Boy, the platform on which Kirby was to make his first appearance. Because of this ambiguity, Nintendo of America was left with a bit of confusion when the game was ported to the West. As a result, the American box art and cartridge label of Kirby's Dream Land features Kirby as white. The Japanese box art, however, correctly depicts Kirby as pink. In later games Kirby gained the ability to switch colors. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, the yellow, white, pink, blue, red and green colors appear as palette swaps for the character.
Kirby is an oddly heroic resident of Dream Land (Pupupu Land in the Japanese version), located on the Planet Popstar. The cute, peaceful residents of Dream Land often find themselves being terrorized by some form of evil creature, which Kirby must venture out to defeat.
Kirby's signature ability is to "suck up" enemies with his big mouth and swallow them, copying their powers. The Kirby games feature an enormous variety of powers to gain. Swallowing one enemy may grant him the power to shoot needles from his body; another may allow him to become a spinning wheel or a fireball. Kirby can also spit out objects that he's sucked up at high velocity to knock out enemies. Alternatively, the sucking power can be used to suck up air, allowing Kirby to fly. Kirby did not have the power to steal his opponents' abilities in the original 1992 game.
In later games (starting with Kirby's Dream Land 2 on the Game Boy), Kirby was assisted in his quest by three animal friends, Coo the owl, Rick the hamster, and Kine the ocean sunfish. Later, three more animal friends were introduced in Kirby's Dream Land 3. These were Pitch, a small green bird, Chu-Chu, a pink octopus-like blob with a red ribbon on its head, and Nago, a cat.
In some later games, Kirby also gains the ability to summon computer-controlled allies to help him in battle, such as the friendly monsters from Kirby Super Star, Gooey from Kirby's Dreamland 3, or the Mirror Kirbies Kirby and the Amazing Mirror. The E3 trailer for an upcoming Gamecube title also features multiple monster helpers, a la Super Star.
Also, Kirby's ball-like form has earned him a place as the ball in a number of sports or arcade type games, such as pinball and golf. (The golf game was actually a remake of a Japan-only golf game using the style of Kirby's games.) His ball-like form is taken advantage of in his latest game, Kirby: Canvas Curse for the Nintendo DS, in which a player uses a stylus to roll him around.
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