Kirby's Dream Land
"Kirby's Adventure" was developed by HAL Laboratory in Kōfu as a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) successor to their 1992 Game Boy game "Kirby's Dream Land". Masahiro Sakurai returned as director and designer, with Takashi Saitou assisting designing. Hiroaki Suga was lead programmer, while Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Takao Shimizu were the producers; Iwata also provided programming assistance. According to Sakurai, development began after he was asked to port "Kirby's Dream Land" to the NES. Since the Game Boy title was aimed at beginners and the NES player base was more experienced, Sakurai chose to create a new game instead. As a result, little of "Kirby's Adventure" is based on "Kirby's Dream Land": "Even though we could use the same pixel art for Kirby, when it came to capacity and what was possible, all that expanded greatly with NES."