Kirby's Avalanche

Kirby's Avalanche, known as Kirby's Ghost Trap in Europe, is an adaption of the Japanese puzzle game Puyo Puyo with Kirby characters. It was developed by HAL, Nintendo and Compile and was released in 1995.

This is a spinoff game that was not developed in Japan nor was it ever released there. As a result, this game is not considered to be canon.

Gameplay
In the game, as in all Puyo games, groups of two colored blobs fall from the top of the screen. The player must rotate and move the groups before they touch the bottom of the screen or the pile, so that matching-colored blobs touch from above, below, the left or the right. Once three or more same-colored blobs touch, they will disappear, and any blobs above them will fall down to fill in the space. If a player manages to set off a chain reaction with these blobs, boulders will fall on the other player's screen. The number of boulders that falls depends on both the number of blobs popped and the number of consecutive chain reactions. These boulders will only disappear if a player manages to pop a group of blobs that are in direct contact with the boulders.

Notably, in the cinematics between each round, Kirby and the other characters are shown trash-talking opponents in full sentences. This differs greatly from other Kirby games, where Kirby and cast hardly speak at all.

Beginners

 * Practice 1: Waddle Dee (this is a training stage)
 * Practice 2: Bronto Burt
 * Practice 3: Waddle Doo

Normal

 * Stage 1: Poppy Bros. Sr.
 * Stage 2: Whispy Woods
 * Stage 3: Kabu

Hard

 * Stage 4: Broom Hatter
 * Stage 5: Squishy
 * Stage 6: Lololo & Lalala
 * Stage 7: Bugzzy
 * Stage 8: Paint Roller

Final

 * Stage 9: Heavy Mole
 * Stage 10: Mr. Shine & Mr. Bright
 * Stage 11: Kracko
 * Stage 12: Meta Knight
 * Stage 13: King Dedede

Refrences to Older Games
Kirby's Adventure: Some of the music from this game are in Avalanche (but remixed); Bugzzy, Paint Roller, Heavy Mole, Mr. Shine & Mr. Bright, and Meta Knight all originated from this game; and the fountain of dreams reappears with Nightmare's "Power Orb" form resting on it.

Super Puyo Puyo: This game is a clone of Puyo Puyo but the characters and music(with the exception of "Panic") are replaced with Kirby characters and songs.

Trivia

 * This game was released for the SNES while Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, another variation of Puyo Puyo, was released on Sega Genesis.
 * This is the first game to call Meta Knight by his name in-game.
 * This is also the first game in which Meta Knight uses his current design.
 * Technically, this is also the first Kirby game to have voices, although the announcer is the only one who has voice acting.