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Kirby's Star Stacker[lower-alpha 1] is a 1997 puzzle video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy.
| Kirby's Star Stacker | |
|---|---|
North American cover art | |
| Developer(s) | HAL Laboratory |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Hitoshi Yamagami |
| Producer(s) | Hiroaki Suga |
| Composer(s) | Hirokazu Ando (GB, SNES) Jun Ishikawa (SNES) |
| Series | Kirby |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy, Super Famicom |
| Release | Game Boy [1] Super Famicom[2]
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
It received a remake for the Super Famicom in Japan.
Kirby's Star Stacker is similar in many respects to other falling block puzzle video games that were around at the time of its release, most notably Soldam. The goal of the game is to earn as many stars possible by matching pairs of blocks (also referred to as friends in-game) that fall from the top of the play area. There are three types of blocks, all based on Kirby's friends from Kirby's Dream Land 2: Rick the hamster, Coo the owl, and Kine the fish. Stars are scored by sandwiching the stars between two matching blocks. When stars are scored, they disappear from the play area along with the pair of blocks enclosing them. The game is lost when the falling blocks reach the top of the play area (middle rows only), so it is critical to eliminate as many blocks as possible by scoring stars.
There are four game modes in Star Stacker.
There is a high score table for the Challenge and Time Attack modes, showing the top three scores for each mode.
Kirby no Kirakira Kids (カービィのきらきら きっず - Kirby's Sparkling Kids), also commonly referred to as Kirby's Super Star Stacker, is a video game released in 1998 for the Super Famicom; ROMs for the game were distributed via the Nintendo Power flash RAM service, before the game was given a standard cartridge release a year later on June 25, 1999.[3][4] Kirby no Kirakira Kids is an SNES remake of Kirby's Star Stacker with nearly identical gameplay. The point of the game is to remove falling star blocks by placing matching animal friends (Rick, Coo, and Kine) at either end. One of the primary enhancements is story mode, in which Kirby faces several opponents from other Kirby games (mostly from Kirby Super Star). The game's title is exactly the same as the Japanese title of the Game Boy version of Kirby's Star Stacker. There were plans to release the game overseas, but they were halted after Nintendo of America stopped shipping SNES games in 1997, leaving the game Japan-exclusive.[5]
This version was released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on January 5, 2010, on the Nintendo Switch Online service on July 21, 2022, in Japan, and on September 6, 2023, for the first time in the West under the Game Boy game's western title.[6]
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