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Kirby's 20th Anniversary Could Potentially Begin Nintendo's Criterion Collection

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 04:57 PM PDT

We've seemed to scream ourselves hoarse on how some company should take the initiative in developing a sort of Criterion Collection for video games. There's nothing quite like having a physical object that wholly celebrates a title, a series, or the artists themselves. Valve has shown some spark in this area through the spectacular inclusion of commentaries in games like Half-Life 2 and Portal, but this idea still deserves to be taken further. It's going to take a company with a rich, stories history; a company whose fan-base who its past and is keen on its preservation. A company like, say, Nintendo.

kirbyTo be perfectly honest, Nintendo completely botched Mario's 25th Anniversary. As Jeremy pointed out in last year's lamentation, Super Mario Bros. deserved better. Arguably the most influential game of all time, it deserved to have the vaults opened wide for fans to have access to every bit of content related to the original title. After consuming the disc, we should've been left utterly full, yet definitively satiated. But that's not the route Nintendo decided to take -- instead, we got a disc with a rom of Super Mario All-Stars for the SNES, a flimsy book sprinkled with pull quotes, and a CD containing a shamefully bare selection of tracks. In essence, Nintendo celebrated the 25th anniversary of their iconic mascot by making a quick buck. And while this left us undeniably disappointed, hope remains.

Kirby is turning 20 this year, and at the most recent Nintendo Direct press conference, Satoru Iwata announced that they will be celebrating this milestone by releasing a retail disc for the Wii that includes undisclosed Kirby goodness. Outside of promising a variety of "fan-favorite" Kirby titles, Nintendo has left the rest of the details to our hopes and fears. This could be Nintendo's chance at historical preservation redemption. They could right all of the wrongs from Super Mario All-Stars Wii by giving us a fully comprehensive look at Kirby's past, present, and future.
Posted by Shri Krishna

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