| Ljink96 said: Nice, especially considering where the Switch is in its life cycle. But I wasn't born when Kirby's Dreamland came out was that game a Pack In or something? Why did it sell so much more than any other game in the series? |
I don't know all of the details, but here's some pieces of info.
The original Kirby's Dream Land had pretty good legs. In Japan (where game sales are recorded pretty far back), only about half of its sales were during 1992, and it remained an evergreen title up through 1994.
Kirby's Dream Land was one of a relative handful of Game Boy games to get a cheaper Player's Choice release, which was several years after it was launched. This would have made KDL about half the price of newer games and widely available.
Kirby's Dream Land had already been out for six years when Pokemon became a craze, at which point the pre-Color Game Boy was becoming dirt cheap anyways. And unlike some other of Nintendo's handheld evergreen titles, the Game Boy Color didn't feature a game that supplanted KDL like what Link's Awakening DX or Super Mario Bros Deluxe did to their monochrome counterparts. And by this point, Kirby had brand recognition among console owners.
Love and tolerate.
