Kirby, the awesome, tough-as-nails pink puff-ball! Originally debuting in Kirby's Dreamland on the Nintendo Gameboy, Kirby was first depicted as black and white due to the Gameboy's graphical limitations. Kirby was created by Masahiro Sakurai when he worked at HAL Laboratory. However, he Sakurai has not worked on a Kirby game since 2003 when he left HAL Laboratory and went on to begin his own company, Sora Ltd., where he dedicated his work primarily to the Super Smash Bros. series and most recently Kid Icarus Uprising. Despite Masahiro Sakurai's departure, Kirby games continue to be developed by HAL Laboratory.

Kingdom Hearts is a worldwide critically and commercially acclaimed series developed as a collaboration between Square Enix and Disney Studios. Under the direction of Tetsuya Nomura, the series started in 2002 with the release of the first game of the series, Kingdom Hearts, and since then the series consists of multiple games released on various platforms.