Kirby25 is a week-by-week video celebration of the Kirby series’ 25th anniversary. For more, check out the Kirby25 archive.
This week, Andrew Passafiume (@AndrewWDP) returns as Kirby’s Dream Land 2‘s bosses test us… and find us to be unworthy? As it happens, being bad at action-based games and trying to beat them in a video series is a poor combination. Well… here we go, then!
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Kirby25 is a week-by-week video celebration of the Kirby series’ 25th anniversary. For more, check out the Kirby25 archive.
This week, Andrew Passafiume (@AndrewWDP) joins us for an exploration of Kirby’s Dream Land 2! The puffball returns to the monochromatic screen for this more fleshed-out adventure full of worlds and powers. While every episode of Kirby25 has its own human helper, Dream Land 2 introduced animal companions to shake up its platforming.
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Kirby25 is a week-by-week video celebration of the Kirby series’ 25th anniversary. For more, check out the Kirby25 archive.
This week, Michibiku’s own Jenni Lada (@JMariye) drops by to check out Kirby’s first he’s-a-ball-now outing, Kirby’s Pinball Land for the Game Boy! HAL combined its Kirby world and Revenge of the ‘Gator expertise to make a game that’s silly fun if you’re as bad as we are and less silly fun if you can actually accomplish anything.
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Kirby25 is a week-by-week video celebration of the Kirby series’ 25th anniversary. For more, check out the Kirby25 archive.
This week, we’re once again joined by Henry Skey (@Dollerz) as we finish our march through Kirby’s Adventure (NES)! Check out the full playthrough below, or skip to the third episode to get to the new stuff.
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Let’s head back to 1988! In this video preview, we show you a slice of life in Yakuza 0, following Goro Majima as he heads to the arcade, swings a bat around really hard and tries desperately to get back into the family.
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Kirby25 is a week-by-week video celebration of the Kirby series’ 25th anniversary. For more, check out the Kirby25 archive.
This week, Henry Skey (@Dollerz) helps us start our journey into Kirby’s Adventure, the lone NES release in the franchise. This entry adds the trademark copy abilities and a host of surrounding comforts that would become a mainstay. Come back next week for the (thrilling?) conclusion!
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Welcome to Kirby25! To celebrate the Kirby franchise’s 25th anniversary, we’re playing all the games in the series in weekly video features. It feels like 2017 could use some happy, relaxing fun, and we hope these episodes will be a welcome respite from the stress of life.
This week, Lucas White (@HokutoNoRucas) joins in as we play through the very first game: Kirby’s Dream Land for the original Game Boy. The game’s a fascinating case study in just how much of the eventual formula was in place in the first title and how much wasn’t.
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Happy holidays, Michibiku readers! To celebrate the end of the year, we’re taking a look at the end of GameCube kiosk demo discs: Interactive Multi-Game Demo Disc Version 35! It’s a great showcase of a system with a legacy that outlives its era.
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The Wars series had a long and storied history before we ever saw it in the West, and the shiniest gem of that era is this: the Game Boy Color release, Game Boy Wars 3. It’s different from later games in so many ways, and is thankfully the recipient of a translation patch! Watch us check it out, will ya?
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