Kirby Air Ride (often incorrectly called Kirby's Air Ride) is a 2003 racing video game featuring Nintendo's pink puffball, Kirby. Rather than racing in cars, the players and computer-controlled racers ride on stars.

There are three modes of play:

1. Air Ride: A basic back view racing mode. Choose a star and race against the computer or in a time trial.
2. Top Ride: An overhead racing mode on smaller, simpler tracks.
3. City Trial: A larger mode where you must navigate a massive city grabbing power ups and better stars. You can even collect pieces to make even better stars. Features events such as meteors, UFOs, and much more. At the end you face off in a small competition. These competitions can vary from racing a single lap on one of the Air Ride courses, a drag race down a twisting path, or one of many other games that must be unlocked.

The game features incredibly simple controls, using only the control stick and the boost button (the A button or the shoulder buttons).

Masahiro Sakurai, the game designer behind the Kirby series, resigned only days after giving a public interview where he openly criticized Nintendo for circumstances surrounding the development of Kirby Air Ride.

External links

• Official Web site.