Four long-lost minigames featuring everyone's favourite pink blob, Kirby, have shown up at a Japanese auction, prompting a strong response from fans in the hope that they can be preserved.
Originally designed for the Super Famicom's Satellaview platform in episodic, wireless releases through a satellite radio network. These games were rather forward thinking for its time, but didn't gain much traction. Despite that though, a number of games were released for the platform, many now sadly lost like tears in digital rain. But these Kirby minigames have survived and now fans want to preserve them so everyone can play them.
The games in question are called: Circular Ball, Cannon Ball, Pachinko and Arrange Ball. They're only minigames - as you can imagine, wireless distribution of games was hardly common place in the mid '90s - but they are legitimate Kirby experiences nonetheless. Because that little guy has a lot of fans, there's plenty of interest in seeing these titles returned to the public and made playable on a more accessible platform.
To make that a reality, fans of the era have been crowd funding efforts to try and buy the games and at the time of writing, it looks like they raised enough.
Update: Game #1 won for...higher than we anticipated. We're seeing some bid competition. But we got it! Two more to go.
— Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) November 8, 2016
Okay, we got 'em all! Still missing most of Nintendo's Satelleview output, but at least we've got most of the Kirbys now. THANK YOU ALL!
— Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) November 8, 2016
Good job everyone involved. Now we just need to wait and here how these classics will be ported or at least emulated for the rest of us.
