The Grand Theft Auto Team Made a Kirby Game?

Kid Kirby was a cancelled Kirby game in the early 90s developed by DMA Design LTD, the team that would go on to create Grand Theft Auto and evolve into Rockstar North. This time we dive into the cancelled Kid Kirby and find out what it was about and why it was scrapped by Nintendo.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro to Kid Kirby
01:17 - The Planned Story of Kid Kirby
04:07 - Kid Kirby's Gameplay
05:36 - The Concepts and Levels of Kid Kirby
07:04 - What Happened to Kid Kirby?
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Credits:
WiKirby editor Meeper123456 - Twitter PM with "Mike Dailly" (@mdf200) by WiKirby editor Meeper12346 - imgur.com/PzALziu
Interview with Dave Jones - Gamasutra - web.archive.org/web/202206282...
James Watson - Archived Blog - web.archive.org/web/200904211...
Kirby's Dream Course Gameplay - LongplayArchive
Music:
Kirby Super Star - White Wing Dynablade
Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Abandoned Beach
Kirby Epic Yarn - Melody Town
Kirby Mass Attack - Darouch Reunion
AA: Spirit of Justice - Cross Examination Moderato 2016
Kirby's Dream Land 3 - Sand Canyon 2

[@TheMentok]

Should I cover the other cancelled Kirby titles?

[@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121]

Yes

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

I would love to see you cover them. Oh yeah, and as you've done with Sonic, Mario and Link.... Kirby's had mangas and comics, too.

[@fritzthecat8158]

Kirby is the best so yes

[@haleyhersh3850]

Oh hell yeah! I love Kirby!

[@P-P-Panda]

Yes

[@frost8077]

I feel like this is going to be one of those stories where some Rockstar employee has a completed version of the game but completely forgot about it.

[@TheMentok]

Seeing as old betas for games are popping up every so often, I have my fingers crossed someone will pull through

[@terrysyvertson9205]

dedede isn't actually royalty, he's just a self-proclaimed king

[@sahaprocks7751]

Yeah he barely does any thing king like besides having servants do work for him

[@Insertgenericusernamehere809]

so he's a tyrant.

[@kelvinmatheus6178]

as are all kings, who are not royalty by any God-given right

[@Frogmood]

the prehensile hair worm is truly unconscionable

[@normalgraham]

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Considering that Nintendo hired Rockstar (formerly DMA Design) to develop a Kirby game around the same time as _Grand Theft Auto,_ of all things, then imagine the canon where Kirby ate all of Big Smoke's order.

[@brandonnotsowise2640]

You had me at "Rockastar's Kirby game."

[@jeepmega629]

Rockstar and Nintendo should bring us this game today. It’s too insane to not see it in action.

[@brandonnotsowise2640]

GTA: Dreamland

[@TheMentok]

I feel like Rockstar is too fixated on GTA these days

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

Kirby and Rockstar are two things nobody would expect to see together

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

Since Kid Kirby, a lot has changed about Kirby's age. More so, while Kirby: Right Back at Ya! isn't at all canon (It features Dedede *dying* from being turned to ash, at the end of its final episode.), a good amount of elements from the anime have carried into the games as I've discussed before. At least in the anime canon, Kirby's species is immortal, living for hundreds of thousands of years. Meta Knight explains all this by saying that Kirby was born 200 years too early. Meta Knight is biologically a thousand or more years old, while Kirby is some amount of hundreds below a thousand. Since there is no confirmed age for these characters, or any equation of Kirby species years to human years, my point is that Meta Knight is mentally in his 20s or older, while Kirby is mentally a baby. Which means that, if Kid Kirby ever happened... It wouldn't fit in with the canon that exists for Kirby.

[@Insertgenericusernamehere809]

they should just update his design to be a smaller version of modern Kirby then.

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

@@Insertgenericusernamehere809 Kirby's only 20 cm tall.

[@Insertgenericusernamehere809]

oh.@@SmokeTheHorsehog

[@Insertgenericusernamehere809]

then keep it the same@@SmokeTheHorsehog

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

@@Insertgenericusernamehere809 The difference isn't the size of his body. The difference would be his mental capabilities. Despite his instincts for heroics (and violence), Kirby's mental age is that of a baby. You can't make someone younger than that... unless that Kirby game starred a completely different hero. Say, maybe a prequel with Meta Knight when he was Kirby's age.

[@Poyo494]

nice video! been watching your Kirby videos, and loving it!

[@TheMentok]

Thanks! More to come

[@theboihilbirt1277]

If that happen, Games Kirby implied be teen or more older than that. The old manga portrait him like that. The other media aka Anime Kirby, he's baby with 1000 years old. That how work freezing wintering.

[@M64bros]

I never knew Rockstar originally made a Kirby game with Nintendo

[@trashlillies8207]

thanks for all your hard work!

[@Insertgenericusernamehere809]

So is mass attack technically a conceptual revival of what this game was going to be?

[@TheMentok]

I'd argue Tilt n Tumble kinda has some similar elements to this too

[@justinc.5591]

Prince Dedede looks goofy as hell.

[@MagillanicaLouM]

Wait I thought he was already a kid to begin with

[@TheMentok]

Yeah but in this game he's even more kidder 😆

[@peanut7650]

Kid Kirby disturbs me with his HAIR, why does he have hair he is bald.

[@haleyhersh3850]

lol

[@andreworders7305]

Oh cool, I was just googling this the other week.

[@ShinGoji1987Official]

Great history lesson and congratulations on 70k!

[@WahRizz]

I never heard of kid kirby. Good video :)

[@doctorhandsome]

It would have been awesome to get more SNES games that used the mouse. It worked so well for Mario Paint I was sure they would keep it going, but they basically seem to have decided it was a one-time gimmick, which was really disappointing. It felt like a lot of wasted potential. Mario Paint itself seemed like something they would continue but didn't. I doubt a new Mario Paint could have saved the Wii U, but it seemed like a no-brainer to try it as a showcase for the gamepad functionality, which they crammed into other games so clumsily. Missed opportunities all around.

[@P-P-Panda]

As a big Kirby fan, these vids are a huge treat!!

[@justinthewarrior9165]

Kid kirby I never heard that game before please I don't think so

[@JaxTheEpic]

Kirby is like a blob version of Kitsy Kat.

[@alanbrito141]

The gameplay kinda sounds like what they made with kirby mass attack Except with touch controls

[@sahilhossain8204]

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[@tomcurl8034]

This game sounds like it could’ve had a lot of promise

[@FrogiceG]

So it's basically canvas curse/rainbow curse?

[@declanhamlin]

First like, let’s go

[@FN64Productions]

@thementok Whats the meaning behind your name?!

[@Cassie3angel]

Yooo when I saw this 3:09 I literally said EWWW out loud 😭🤣🤣🤣💀 dedede looks ridiculous

[@CorbinLeonard-rp4et]

I'm sockith

[@TramiNguyen-oi3kp]

What about Teenage Kirby game?

[@AJbassist]

grab his pink skin and fold it back that reminds me of something

[@reinaldothecringemaster3728]

I Don't know if it's Just me but you Don't Start the Video Saying Hello

[@a-dogo]

The irony that rockstar made almost made a game of kirby which is the most innocent thing i can imagine is hilarious