Kābī no Omochabako (found Satellaview minigames; 1996)
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The title screen when you boot up the game
Status: Partially Lost
Kirby's Toy Box is the translated name of a small series of Kirby sub-games titled カービィのおもちゃ箱 (Kābī no Omochabako, meaning Kirby's Toy Box) in Japan. The Kirby's Toy Box series was broadcast over Nintendo's first form of digital distribution, the Satellaview satellite network, and, depending on when the player connected to the network, different games were available at different times. These could be downloaded to the Satellaview base unit, or an 8-megabit rewritable "Memory Pak" ROM cartridge compatible with the Satellaview.
Availability
Because of the discontinuation of the Satellaview in 2000, the nine minigames, and the rest of the Satellaview games, fell into obscurity with no re-releases since and making them completely lost.
In November 2016, A group of Gaming preservationists got a hold of a few off these of the Kirby's Toybox minigames and dumped them online for the public to see. And on the 6th of the same month, another group found four of the other games at an auction in Japan. they were also successfully dumped online for the public and can now be played through emulation. Only one minigame is lost called Ball Rally, but for now, only eight of the nine minigames have been found.
List of Games
| Title | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| カービィのおもちゃ箱 - ベースボール (Kābī no Omochabako - Bēsubōru or Kirby's ToyBox - Baseball) | The First Kirby Minigame to be released is mostly a Baseball game with a Kirby look | Found |
| カービィのおもちゃ箱 - ピンボール (Kābī no Omochabako - Pinbōru or Kirby's ToyBox - Pinball) | This Minigame lets you take control of of a pinball machine where kirby is the ball and the goal is to score as much as you can before you run out of balls | Found |
| カービィのおもちゃ箱 - 星くずし (Kābī no Omochabako - Hoshi Kuzushi or Kirby's ToyBox - Star Break) | This Minigame is Unigue Clone of Breakout where you control a platform by 2 Rick's as you Laucnch kirby to break all the platforms before the game ends | Found |
| カービィのおもちゃ箱 - ぐるぐるボール (Kābī no Omochabako - Gurugurubōruor Kirby's ToyBox - Balls Round And Round) | In this game, the player fires spherical Kirbys through a spiral tube, which is designed to look like Efreeti. This tube has holes in it, which a speedy Kirby will pass right over. The point is to fire the Kirbys with just the right amount of power to pass over certain holes but slow down and fall into another hole. Different holes give different numbers of points, so the goal of the player is to shoot his/her Kirbys into the highest-scoring hole as much as possible. When the player runs out of Kirbys, the game ends. | Found |
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Reference
- The Satellaview site where most of the Kirby Toybox minigames can be downloaded. Retrieved 22 May '18