Delicious Kirby burger.Kirby is an action-platform video game series developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo. The series centers around the adventures of a young, pink hero named Kirby as he fights to protect and save his home on the distant Planet Popstar from a variety of threats. Pikachu is a fictional species in the Pokémon media franchise. Designed by Atsuko Nishida and Ken Sugimori, Pikachu first appeared in the 1996 Japanese video games Pokémon Red and Green created by Game Freak and Nintendo, which were released outside of Japan in 1998 as Pokémon Red and Blue. Pikachu (Japanese: ピカチュウ Pikachu) is an Electric-type Pokémon introduced in Generation I.