Poor Kirby

While Kirby has had a lot of games across all of the Nintendo systems since his creation, there have been a few Kirby titles that never saw the light of day.

The earliest cancelled Kirby games were intended to appear during the 16-bit era. Kid Kirby was a game planned for the Super Nintendo that was intended to use the SNES mouse. Due to the poor sales of the mouse (and Mario Paint), the game was canned. This means that very little information has been released about it. There was going to be a Kirby game for the Game Boy Color, called Kirby Family. This game was intended to connect to an embroidery machine, that would allow you to create patterns on cloth.

There was going to be several Kirby games on the GameCube. The first was Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble 2, which was intended to use the Game Boy Advance as a controller. There were three Kirby platform games intended to be released for the system, but all were cancelled. Elements from each were added into Kirby's Return to Dream Land.

One game that was almost cancelled was Kirby's Air Ride. This game was originally planned for the Nintendo 64 but was ultimately canned in favour of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. The game would eventually be revived on the GameCube.

Cheer up Kirby, have a cookie