 The color of Kirby was somewhat controversial during the release of  this game (which featured the characters debut). Nintendo game  designer Shigeru Miyamoto suggested that the character be yellow,  but Kirbys creator, Masahiro Sakurai, insisted that Kirby should be  pink; the latter was soon declared Kirbys official color. The  Japanese packaging for the game presented Kirby as pink, but further  confusion led to Kirby being shown as white on the North American  box art. (It should be noted that the Game Boy system display  technology of the time presented games in four shades of a  yellow