Kirby's Avalanche

Kirby's Avalanche (Kirby's Ghost Trap in the PAL version) is an SNES game developed by HAL Laboratory and released by Nintendo in 1995. It was a clone of the Japanese game Puyo Puyo (specifically, the SNES port known as Super Puyo Puyo), the same game used as a base for Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, with the graphics changed to star Kirby. It was one of four Kirby games released on the Super NES.

As a game released later in the SNES's life cycle, this game has bright colors and beautiful graphics. The sound consists of remixed tracks from Kirby's Adventure; as the game boots, a sampled "Kirby's Avalanche!" can be heard.

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Gameplay
In the game, as in all Puyo games, groups of two colored blobs fall from the top of the screen. You must rotate and move the groups before they touch the bottom of the screen or the pile, so that matching-colored blobs touch from above, below, the left or the right. Once four or more same-colored blobs touch, they will disappear, and any blobs above them will fall down to fill in the space. If a player manages to set off a chain reaction with these blobs, rocks will fall on the other player's screen. The number of rocks that falls depends on both the number of blobs popped and the number of consecutive chain reactions. These rocks will only disappear if a player manages to pop a group of blobs that are in direct contact with the rocks.

Notably, in the cinematics between each round, Kirby is shown trash-talking his opponents in full sentences. This differs greatly from other Kirby games, where Kirby hardly speaks at all.

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Virtual Console
In Europe and Australia, the game was rereleased on the Wii's Virtual Console service on July 27th, 2007, and in North America on September 24th, 2007. It costs 800 Wii Points.

The game is identical to the original release, except for one minor change - A cheat code that was given after completing Competition mode which originally had to be entered on controller 2 can now be entered on both controller 1 and controller 2.