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Kirby's 1992 debut from HAL Laboratory — a platformer designed around accessibility, with the intentional tradeoff being a short runtime and low difficulty ceiling that some collectors either love or knock. What it delivered was tight controls and boss encounters that established the series' DNA. First-print CIB copies hold value as the literal origin point of one of Nintendo's most durable franchises.