It is crazy to me that this is running on an NES and even crazier that they bothered to put out a Kirby NES game in 1993. Understandably, Kirby's Adventure doesn't exactly play nice with the hardware its running on and is plagued by slowdown. To a certain degree slowdown is just expected on the NES, but it can be pretty atrocious here. The trade off then is one of the most graphically impressive games on the system. Sprites are expressive and lovingly animated, scene transitions and minigames are adorable, and there's some great sprite rotation at a few points in the game.

It would be easy to dismiss Kirby's Adventure as a technical showpiece for the aged NES hardware, but it's pretty damn fun to play too, even if the copy abilities could use a bit of work. While I'd rather pick up some later entries into the series before playing Kirby's Adventure again, this is a seriously great NES game that pushes the boundaries of the hardware and still plays well enough to be a good time even today.