A STRANGE glitch in Google has led to the viral meme of “Who Created Kirby?”.
The meme has been doing the rounds since 2018 and has caused a stir online.
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Who created Kirby?
The meme occurs when a picture of a large man appears on Google search when looking up “Who created Kirby?” instead of its actual creator, Masahiro Sakurai.
Sakurai is a Japanese video game director and designer who also writes songs.
He’s best known for the Kirby games series and Super Smash Bros.
When was Kirby created?
Kirby was invented in 1992 and the first game was called Kirby’s Dream Land.
In 1993, Nintendo Entertainment System released a second installment, called Kirby’s Adventure.
The meme was created in 2018 and has been doing the rounds since then.
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What is Kirby?
Kirby is a video game character developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo.
The gaming series centres around the escapades of a spherical pink hero called Kirby as he fights to save his home of Planet Popstar from a number of threats.
He’s eight inches tall and is known to live on a planet filled with laid-backed creatures.
The games are side-scrolling platformers with puzzle-solving activities and beat ’em up elements.
Kirby can inhale enemies and objects through his mouth. He can then spit them out as projectiles or eat them.
He can gain certain powers, depending on what he eats.
Many recurring characters appear through the series as both allies and enemies with the most common being Kind Dedede.
How many Kirby games are there?
The Kirby series includes a total of over 30 games.
All games have been developed exclusively for Nintendo consoles and handheld devices.
The first game was released in 1992 in Japan and was called Hoshi no Kirby and renamed for its released in the US later that year as Kirby’s Dream Land.
Other games include Kirby’s Dream Land 2, Kirby Super Star, Kirby: Squeak Squad, Kirby: Triple Delux and Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
Kirby games have sold over 38 million units worldwide, according to Wikipedia, and its one of Nintendo’s best-selling franchises.
