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[ziran]

there's an excellent article at N-Sider about hal labs, developer of kirby and smash bros. for those interested it's a great read.

nintendo president satoru iwata began at hal labs.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

good read, thanks.

 

[truffleshuffle83]

adventures of lolo rocked hard

 

[Rlan]

Wow, they're still making episodes of the Kirby TV series? I would have thought it would have died off after 25 or 52 episodes. Hell, the Sonic X TV series apparently did pretty badly in Japan, and only got it's additional 26 episodes after ep. 52 because it was funded to be made for American Audiences [Sort of like Big O II was]. I wouldn't have thought Kirby did too well in America either.

I'm surprised on HAL's lack of input on the DS. Kirby is a good game, but IMO felt like they could do a lot more with it. Only 3 kinds of Boss Battles [which wern't all that good, frankly], and lack of abilities made me feel that they were restricting themselves. I wish they'd somehow bring back the double-up abilities of the Kirby 64 game, the "helper" abilities from Superstar never did anything for me.

 

[Kroole]

An interesting read. It's always nice to read about the ups and downs of famous developers. It's like a saga in itself