Kirby's Dream Course

Controls

• Select: Right Shift
• Start: Enter
• Up: Up Arrow
• Down: Down Arrow
• Left: Left Arrow
• Right: Right Arrow
• A Button: Z key
• B Button: X key
• X Button: A key
• Y Button: S key

Trivia:

• This is Keeby's debut game.
• This game marked the first external appearance of Kirby's dome-shaped house (in the manual and the Japanese-exclusive intro cutscene), which would reappear in several subsequent games in the series more-or-less unchanged (as well as the anime). Kirby's house had been seen previously in the manual of Kirby's Adventure, but only from the inside.
• If Kirby or Keeby sinks in the cup while using the Needle or Freeze abilities, a lighter "twinkle" sound effect plays. Likewise, if they sink in while using the Stone ability, a heavier "thud" sound effect plays.
• The instruction booklet reuses a large amount of artwork from Kirby's Dream Land and Kirby's Adventure, sometimes with slight alterations or used in conjunction with other artwork to illustrate specific situations.
• The Kirby's 20th Anniversary Celebration Book claims that it is possible to get a hole-in-one on every hole in Kirby's Dream Course, instructing the reader to "play very strategically". So far, this has not been documented to be achievable in practice, with a theoretically-perfect tool-assisted speedrun requiring more than one shot on some holes in Course 3 and Course 5 (in the main game).
• This game contains many sound effects from EarthBound/Mother 2 as both games were being developed side by side at HAL Laboratory.
• It is possible to rename a save file using a code. The player must go to the Member screen and highlight the desired file, then hold L, R, and A to enter the name change screen.
• This was the first game in the Kirby series to have any kind of age rating. The ESRB rating scale didn't exist when the first three games were released.
• When playing amiibo tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits, if the player taps an amiibo product to the Wii U GamePad, there is a chance to unlock a demo of Kirby's Dream Course.
• In two-player mode, if a player falls off the course while in nighttime, a Flapper will pick up the player instead of a Bronto Burt, as it normally happens.
• The Bronto Burt in this game appears to be a sprite edit of the yellow ball character from Special Tee Shot.
• If the player falls off the stage, Kirby/Keeby will lose two health bars in multiplayer.
• It's possible to fall in the hole in Two-Player Mode, but not get the two stars that appear above the hole; this can only happen when the other player is at the edge of the hole.
• If a Kirby rolls on an edge with inclines descending on both sides, Kirby will eventually fall to the right instead of staying on the edge.
• The commercial for this game was only aired in Japan, and the advertisement was referencing Galileo Galilei, and his famous experiment on gravity. In this experiment, Galileo used two spheres of different weight and dropped them from The Leaning Tower of Pisa. In the commercial however, instead of using two spheres, he used a sphere and Kirby. When Kirby was falling to the earth's surface, he pulled out a parasol, allowing him to slowly fall towards the ground. This event adds some humor to the commercial because according to the results of this experiment, both spheres hit the ground at the same time.
• The game has a very unique save system in 1Play Game where the player can draw a low-resolution, black-and-white picture with the D-pad to personalize their save file and represent themselves in the score rankings. A pencil and eraser tool are present, as well as a number of Kirby-themed stamps that can be applied to the drawing, such as a Maxim Tomato. This drawing system was originally present in Special Tee Shot.
• For a brief time during the development transition (good for it!), Kirby's Dream Course was known as Kirby's Tee Shot.
• The removal of the story in the English release was likely done in order to put the game on a cartridge with less memory. The Japanese original is 1.5 MB in size, while the other releases are only 1 MB.