Kirby Air Ride (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Kirby Air Ride

Kirby Air Ride is a 2003 racing game video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube video game console. The game has the players and computer-controlled racers ride…

11 July 2003

What Kirby Air Ride is

Kirby Air Ride is an arcade game developed by HAL Laboratory and released in 2003. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Kirby Air Ride is a 2003 racing game video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube video game console. The game has the players and computer-controlled racers ride on Air Ride Machines. The game supports up to four players, and was the first GameCube title to support LAN play using broadband adapters and up to four GameCube systems. Players take control of Kirby or any of his multicolored counterparts to compete in races or other minigames. The game consists of three different game modes: Air Ride, Top Ride, and City Trial.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 12 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Kirby series

Kirby Air Ride is the 38th of 94 entries we hold in the Kirby series. The next entry was Kirby Puzzle in 2003.

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What it launched against

Kirby Air Ride launched on 11 July 2003, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, F-Zero GX and Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising.

Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, F-Zero GX, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising.

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