That said, I don't think the idea of a Kid Kirby game to be quite so distasteful, largely because Kirby is so goddamn saccharine sweet to begin with. What's the harm in making him smaller and giving him an unruly cowlick? This SNES-era Kirby spin-off never actually saw the light of day, but an intrepid user from The Lost Levels managed to track down some sprite artwork for the game (along with some sweet Uniracers assets) that was hiding on the Flickr account of a former employee of DMA Design, which is where Kid Kirby was being developed. While they're not as plentiful or fleshed-out as the Halo MMO concept stuff that came out earlier this week, it still gives a very basic idea of how the game might've looked. Which is to say, enough like a regular Kirby game that I can understand why someone decided that it simply wasn't necessary.