Kirby's Star Stacker
Kirby's Star Stacker is a 1997 puzzle video game developed by HAL Laboratory for the Game Boy. It received a remake for the Super Famicom in Japan. Gameplay. "Kirby's Star Stacker" is similar in many respects to other puzzle games that were around at the time of its release, most notably "Dr. Mario" and "Tetris". The goal of the game is to earn as many stars possible by matching pairs of blocks (also referred to as friends in-game) that fall from the top of the play area. There are three types of blocks , all based on Kirby's friends from "Kirby's Dream Land 2": Rick the hamster, Coo the owl, and Kine the fish. Stars are scored by sandwiching the stars between two matching blocks. When stars are scored, they disappear from the play area along with the pair of blocks enclosing them. The game is lost when the falling blocks reach the top of the play area (middle rows only), so it is critical to eliminate as many blocks as possible by scoring stars. Gameplay modes. There are four game modes in "Star Stacker". There is a high score table for  the Challenge and Time Attack modes, showing the top three scores for each mode. Kirby no Kirakira Kizzu. Kirby no Kirakira Kizzu (カービィのきらきら きっず - Kirby's Sparkling Kids), also commonly referred to as Kirby's Super Star Stacker, is a video game released in 1998 for the Super Famicom; ROMs for the game were distributed via the Nintendo Power flash RAM service, before the game was given a standard cartridge release a year later. "Kirby no Kirakira Kizzu" is an SNES remake of "Kirby's Star Stacker" with nearly identical gameplay. The point of the game is to remove falling  star blocks by placing matching animal friends (Rick, Coo, and Kine) at either end. One of the primary enhancements is story mode, in which Kirby faces several opponents from other Kirby games (mostly from "Kirby Super Star"). The game's title is exactly the same as the Japanese title of the Game Boy version of "Kirby's Star Stacker". There were plans to release the game overseas, but they were halted after Nintendo of America stopped shipping SNES games in 1997, leaving the game Japan-exclusive. This version was released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on January 5 , 2010.