Hamstar’s Arcade Archives series recently turned 10, so a livestream event recently took place. During the event, Hideki Kamiya and Masahiro Sakurai were on stage with Hamstar Corporation to discuss the games as well as retro games from other franchises. One of those games was Kirby Air Ride, which was released over 2 decades ago and would be the last game Sakurai helped develop during his time at HAL Laboratory.
Sakurai revealed that at one point Kirby Air Ride was originally supposed to have Dolby Surround sound. However, it was removed because, according to Sakurai, “I am very sorry for making the user wait. If you take one second from each user, that means you take 10,000 seconds from 10,000 people. The more this happens over the years, the more time you cause players to lose.”
