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Kirby's Adventure

TitleKirby's Adventure
First release1993
DeveloperHAL Laboratory
PublisherNintendo
PlatformNES / Famicom
Genreplatformer
Also known asHoshi no Kirby: Yume no Izumi no Monogatari · 星のカービィ 夢の泉の物語 · Hoshi no Kābī: Yume no Izumi no Monogatari · Kirby of the Stars: The Story of the Fountain of Dreams
Players1 player
Co-opNo
ESRB ratingE Everyone
Releases
NES / Famicom: 1993-03-23 (NTSC-J), 1993-05-01 (NTSC-U)
Wikidata IDQ1154059

Inhale enemies to steal their unique abilities, allowing Kirby to perform 20 different tricks to navigate Dream Land. This platformer requires players to traverse various colorful lands and defeat foes to recover the pieces of the Star Rod stolen by King Dedede, restoring power to the Dream Spring.

Description: REG-Vault, CC BY-SA 4.0 Facts from Wikidata (CC0), gaps filled from REG-Vault and TheGamesDB. Only retro platforms tracked by this site are listed; the year is the earliest release date recorded on Wikidata.
Sources
Wikidata (Q1154059) · last updated 2026-09-27 · CC0
REG-Vault (nes/kirby-s-adventure) · last updated 2026-10-25 · descriptions CC BY-SA 4.0
TheGamesDB (121,104025) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only
Image credits
Box art, Screenshots, Logos, Artwork (7): Source: REG-Vault (upstream not stated) · © Nintendo · internal use only. REG-Vault page
Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, NTSC-U release) · © Nintendo · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Box art, Screenshots, Logos, Artwork (6): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Nintendo · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Sprites (4): fan rips from sprite sites, credited per sheet (ripper, site, rights) in Sprites below; internal use only.
Logo: Nintendo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (“Kirby's-Adventure-Logo.png”)
Sprites
NES / Famicom version · 4 sheets · Kirby's Adventure on The Spriters Resource ↗ (86 sheets on the site; 4 stored here)
Kirby sprite sheet (NES / Famicom)
Kirby
Characters NES / Famicom · 500×3449
Rip by Jermungandr
#49192 · fetched 2026-10-01 17:24 UTC
Enemies sprite sheet (NES / Famicom)
Enemies
Enemies NES / Famicom · 518×1251
Rip by Jermungandr
#49202 · fetched 2026-10-01 17:24 UTC
Nightmare (Power Orb) sprite sheet (NES / Famicom)
Nightmare (Power Orb)
Enemies NES / Famicom · 452×1056
Rip by Jermungandr
#49198 · fetched 2026-10-01 17:24 UTC
Butter Building 1 sprite sheet (NES / Famicom)
Butter Building 1
Backgrounds NES / Famicom · 1816×472
Rip by Jermungandr
#2583 · fetched 2026-10-01 17:24 UTC
Sprite sheets are fan rips of copyrighted game graphics (© Nintendo / HAL Laboratory), credited to the ripper and linked to their page on the source site; internal use only. “Rip by” is the uploader credit shown on the site. Click a sheet to view it at full size (pixel-exact zoom). More: The Spriters Resource ↗ /
Videos
NES Longplay [030] Kirby's Adventure (EU)
World-of-Longplays · NES / Famicom version · longplay · 2:17:53auto-matched
Watch on YouTube ↗ · auto:channel-harvest, checked 2026-10-25 18:42 UTC
Kirby's Adventure (NES) Playthrough
NintendoComplete · NES / Famicom version · longplay · 3:33:39auto-matched
Watch on YouTube ↗ · auto:channel-harvest, checked 2026-10-25 18:42 UTC
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