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If anything, Kirby spin-offs are delightfully weird. Pinball, breakout, mini golf, what else can Kirby do? How about a _Dr. Mario_ / _Tetris_ variant? Sure thing, HAL thought, and a year after the release of [Kirby's Block Ball](https://jefklakscodex.com/games/gameboy/kirbys-block-ball/), we've got ourselves _Kirby 's Star Stacker_. _Star Stacker_ is the weird sibling of the other weird spin-offs: it doesn't highlight the roundness of Kirby as a ball. Instead, Kirby is locked to the side of the screen where they help the player by shooting extra star blocks towards the main screen if you mange to pull off a combo. The matching tile falling block puzzle genre hasn't been radically altered like in _Block Ball_. Instead, what we've got here is yet another puzzle variant, dressed in "Kirby Universe". Since [Kirby's Dream Land 2](https://jefklakscodex.com/games/gameboy/kirbys-dreamland-2/) was released a good year before this one, HAL decided to make good use of Kirby's friends Coo the owl, Rick the hamster, and Kine the fish. The premise of the game is simp