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It was included in the Wii game software Hoshi no Kirby 20th Anniversary Special Collection, released on 2012-7-19, and is also included as one of the 21 titles preinstalled on the "Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Famicom", a reissue of the Super Famicom released on 2017-10-5.
In development, 3 pillars were set up: "2-player simultaneous play", "fighting-style action", and "omnibus".
The helper system (2-player simultaneous play) was requested and proposed by Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto.
In the Cross Review feature of the magazine Famitsu, the four reviewers gave 9, 8, 7, and 8, for a total of 32.
An enhanced remake titled Kirby Super Star Ultra was released for the Nintendo DS in 2008 and 2009 to commercial and critical success, selling just under 3 million copies.
In Japan, Kirby Super Star was a commercial success, selling 141,621 copies in its first week on the market and ended the year with 563,806 copies sold.
According to the 2021 CESA Games White Papers book, the game sold 1,440,000 copies, making it one of the best-selling SNES titles.
Spring Breeze: an abridged remake of the first Kirby game, Kirby's Dream Land (1992), with the gameplay enhancements of Kirby Super Star.
They include Samurai Kirby, in which the player must be the first to press a button after a prompt, similar to Wild Gunman (1984); and Megaton Punch, in which the player must accurately time three button presses to throw a stronger punch than their opponent.
Kirby Super Star was one of the last SNES games, released just three months before the launch of the system's successor, the Nintendo 64.
In Japan, Kirby Super Star was a commercial success, selling 141,621 copies in its first week on the market and ended the year with 563,806 copies sold.
The prototype was used to test out ideas before implementing them in the final product; Sakurai said having the game operating on an internal build made it easier to develop ideas.
Mother series creator Shigesato Itoi came up with the final title, which Sakurai said "convey[s] how rich it is in content".
In 2021, Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman arranged the composition "Meta Knight's Revenge" for The 8-Bit Big Band.
While noting that it seems unrelated to the game, Sakurai commented that this cover illustrated the heart of Kirby Super Star and praised Itoi's idea.
According to the 2021 CESA Games White Papers book, the game sold 1,440,000 copies, making it one of the best-selling SNES titles.
Outside Japan it was released under the name Kirby Super Star (with some exceptions such as Finland), and it went on sale in the United States on 9-20 of the same year and in Europe on 1997-1-23.
In the later ports the storage medium is different, so data loss from physical causes does not occur, but loss arising from freezes that occur through a particular sequence of operations still remains.
The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked Kirby Super Star seventh in popularity in its June 1996 issue.
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