Topic: [Lost Media] What happened to Kirby of the Stars: Magical Tower of Medal Land?

Heya guys!
So, I was looking into every kirby game (mostly cause sometime I wanna get a copy of each Kirby game for a collection). However, one game in particular (the japan only release of an arcade cabinet called Kirby of the Stars: Magical Tower of Medal Land) peaked my interest and apparently nobody knows that much about it? I found the website with HAL's seal of approval, so I know it exists or had existed at some point, I'm just curious as to happened to it. Like, why did it exist and what happened that caused it to disappear? What places had these things and, well, did anybody ever get to see it in person before they disappeared off the face of the earth?

Please let me know if you have any information on these things, such as if any of you guys saw one in person, or knew what companies they might have been sold to, as I want to unravel this mystery I didn't even know existed. Also let me know if there's anyone I can try to contact via email that might know anything about these arcade machines.

P.S. here is the website with Hal's seal of approval as well as the wiki page that let me know it existed in the first place:
Website with Hal's copyright and confirmation that it existed: https://www.hallab.co.jp/eng/works/detail/002772/
Wiki page that let me know it existed in the first place: https://kirby.fandom.com/wiki/Kirby_of_the_Stars:_Magical_Tow...

Let me know if you find anything about these mysterious arcade machines or what happened to them,

P.P.S. I've also posted this in r/Kirby under the name "Kirbyinthestars" in an attempt to get more people to see this and help with the search.

Thank you!

• ThatPlush (Aka KirbyintheStars)

Update: someone on the reddit post of this thing found a video of the machine, once again confirming that this does indeed exist (I can share the vid if anyone is curious) I might try and investigate into many many videos in hopes of finding a location to hit up. If I can find a place who bought the machines, then they can either point me in the direction of who manufactured them or why they were discontinued in the first place.

share the video