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|imagecaption=Concept artwork for the game.
|imagecaption=The game's box art.
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'''''Kid Kirby''''' was a cancelled Kirby game that would have been developed by Scottish developers DMA Design. Ltd. (now known as Rockstar North). The game was to feature an infant Kirby, sporting a pink curl. It also would have been controlled by the SNES mouse.
'''''Kid Kirby''''' (also referred to internally as '''''Jelly''''') was a cancelled Kirby game that would have been developed by Scottish developers DMA Design. Ltd. (now known as Rockstar North). The game was to feature an infant Kirby, sporting a pink curl. It also would have been controlled by the Super NES Mouse.
 
The gameplay would have been an ''Angry Birds''-esque platformer where the player would use the Super Nintendo Mouse to drag and launch Kirby to navigate levels. The plot was presumably never fully developed,<ref>[https://imgur.com/a/ekgW6 LMW contributor Meeper12346's conversations with Mike Dailly, one of the developers who worked on ''Kid Kirby''.] Retrieved 12 Dec '17</ref> but it would have featured a much younger Kirby and from concept art, a much younger King Dedede to match Kirby's age. The game was cancelled due to years of unproductive development,<ref>[https://flickr.com/photos/mikedailly/1397822957/in/album-72157602112466044/ A level from ''Kid Kirby''. Note the description.] Retrieved 12 Dec '17</ref> which eventually caused Nintendo to cancel the game due to it taking too long - production on the game may have also been cancelled due to the poor sales of the SNES Mouse outside of Intelligent Systems' ''Mario Paint''. As a result, the game was cancelled and has not been dumped online in any way. A demo was produced, but Mike Dailly, a developer who worked on ''Kid Kirby'' and also released sprites for the game online, claims it has "vanished". The only remaining media we have of the game are all from Mike Dailly's Flickr account, where he posted sprites and concept art from the game.<ref>[https://flickr.com/photos/mikedailly/sets/72157602112466044/ Sprites and concept art from ''Kid Kirby'', courtesy of Mike Dailly.] Retrieved 12 Dec '17</ref>
 
==Gallery==
===Videos===
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  |description1 =Yuriofwind's video on ''Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble 2'', ''Kid Kirby'' and ''Kirby Bowl 64''.
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===Assets===
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Kid kirby-0.jpg
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Kk11.png
Kk9.png
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File:Level1.png
File:Level2.png
File:Level3.png
Kk10.png
File:KK7.png
File:KK8.png
File:Level4.png
Kid kirby assets.png
Kid kirby assets 2.png
Kid kirby assets 3.png
Kid kirby assets 4.png
</gallery>
 
==See Also==
*[[Kirby 64 Keroyon (lost prototype build of Nintendo 64 platformer "Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards"; 1997)]]
*[[Kirby's Air Ride (lost Nintendo 64 development build of "Kirby Air Ride" GameCube racing game; 1996)]]
*[[Kirby Bowl 64 (lost unreleased Nintendo 64 prototype of "Kirby Air Ride" GameCube racing game; 1996)]]
*[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land (lost builds of cancelled predecessors to Wii action-platformer; 2005-2011)]]
*[[Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble 2/Roll-o-Rama (lost builds of cancelled GameCube action puzzle games; 2001-2002)]]


Not much else is known about the game in general, but it was likely cancelled due to the poor sales of the SNES mouse, and the game reportedly not functioning well with it.<ref>[http://www.unseen64.net/2008/11/15/kid-kirby-snes-cancelled/ Unseen 64 article]</ref>. As a result, the game was cancelled and has not been dumped online in any way. Out of all the unfinished Kirby games, this one has the least information available, with only a few sprites from the game being available<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedailly/sets/72157602112466044/ Various sprites from the game]</ref>.
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Latest revision as of 22:18, 18 November 2022

Kid kirby box art.png

The game's box art.

Status: Lost

Kid Kirby (also referred to internally as Jelly) was a cancelled Kirby game that would have been developed by Scottish developers DMA Design. Ltd. (now known as Rockstar North). The game was to feature an infant Kirby, sporting a pink curl. It also would have been controlled by the Super NES Mouse.

The gameplay would have been an Angry Birds-esque platformer where the player would use the Super Nintendo Mouse to drag and launch Kirby to navigate levels. The plot was presumably never fully developed,[1] but it would have featured a much younger Kirby and from concept art, a much younger King Dedede to match Kirby's age. The game was cancelled due to years of unproductive development,[2] which eventually caused Nintendo to cancel the game due to it taking too long - production on the game may have also been cancelled due to the poor sales of the SNES Mouse outside of Intelligent Systems' Mario Paint. As a result, the game was cancelled and has not been dumped online in any way. A demo was produced, but Mike Dailly, a developer who worked on Kid Kirby and also released sprites for the game online, claims it has "vanished". The only remaining media we have of the game are all from Mike Dailly's Flickr account, where he posted sprites and concept art from the game.[3]

Gallery

Videos

Yuriofwind's video on Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble 2, Kid Kirby and Kirby Bowl 64.

Assets

See Also

References