There are tons of “little mysteries” and questions that have come from the gaming universe. And it’s always fun when they are answered in their own ways. For example, it’s not a mystery about how the name of “Kirby” came to be on the loveable pink puffball (it’s the name of their lawyer from long ago, look it up!), but how about the dance that the pink blob with an infinite void in its stomach does at the end of every level?
Believe it or not, the original game, Kirby’s Dreamland, had its original dance done by the one and only Masahiro Sakurai. Originally though, there was not a specific dance planned. So, Sakurai asked the sound designer how many frames he had to make it work. They didn’t have an answer, so Sakurai himself went and used the soundtrack for the dance to animate things his own way. And that included putting in the “clones” to dance with the main Kirby. Why did he do that? “It was more fun that way”.
きょう『星のカービィ』が30歳ですと｡
これからも仲良くしてやってください!初代カービィのクリアダンス｡
開発当時､サウンド担当にクリア音楽のフレーム数を聞いたところ｢わからない｣とのことで…
カセットテープに録音したクリア音楽を何度も巻き戻しつつ､音に合わせて作りました｡ pic.twitter.com/fZwaojWa3t— 桜井 政博 / Masahiro Sakurai (@Sora_Sakurai) April 26, 2022
So yeah, we have Sakurai to thank for yet another iconic thing from Nintendo. May his contributions never end.
