This week on RetroNots, we tilt, tumble, stack stars, block balls, and have a mass attack.

Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of RetroNots. I'm your host for this one, Bob

and this episode is called Kirby Part 5 because it is the fifth installment in our Kirby series and the final one for now until they make it at least, let's say, five new Kirby games or until 10 years passes, whichever comes first.

This has been a very comprehensive series and we'll be covering in this one the many, many Kirby games that aren't traditional platformers before I go any further with this intro.

Who is the special patron who sponsored this very special episode today, who's with us on the line?

That'd be me video game enthusiast Andrew Oliveira.

And you've heard Andrew several times over the past, I think two, two and a half years in this Kirby series and it's because of his patronage, we're covering everything Kirby is done in detail.

So thank you once again, Andrew for supporting the show and being on the show before I go any further, who is our remote guest today, our other remote guests?

Hi, it's Ray Barnhalt, aka Tinkled Popo. Hello, that's right. And who else do we have today in the same room with me?

It's Andrew Gilbert still waiting on his claymation Kirby special. Yeah, when is he going to find the meaning of Christmas?

What's that happening?

Like the very least Easter. Yes. Oh, definitely. He looks like one of those little eggs you find, right? He'd suck up all the eggs too.

Oh, Kirby's great joke once he's been yarn before. What other crash can we do? Can we do balsa wood Kirby?

Yeah, chain saw sculpture Kirby, I think, yeah, because next so we've done about four of these we have a lot of games to go through today.

So we've all given our Kirby, biographies except for Ray and Ray, I've been saving this one for you. I reached out to you for like every one of these Kirby ones and you told me I want to be on the one about the spin off game. So Ray, what is your Kirby history?

Right. Well, not to mischaracterize or anything. I have been there since the beginning of Kirby. I played Dreamland adventure and Dreamland two of those are all great.

Then I just sort of slipped off of the main line games once a superstar and Dreamland three were coming out and stuff like that.

And then just kind of like fits and starts with the main line games, but I always enjoyed the spin offs, which we'll talk about of course.

And that's sort of the same thing with me and like Pokemon, like I've played I like the Pokemon spin off games a lot more than the main line ones.

And it's because I'm not like super emotionally involved in Pokemon, of course. It works the other way for things I'm more involved in like I love the main line dragon quest, for instance, most of the dragon quest spin offs are kind of near.

So Kirby's Kirby's in on that other side, but I don't hate Kirby games or anything. It's just a another thing that didn't really stick with me the whole time.

You know, and it feels like to me, at least within the past five years, these these side games have really slowed down. And I think the most offerings we've seen have been many games that are in other bigger games or things like the 30th anniversary game we saw last year.

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