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