Kirby Air Ride, known in Japan as Kirby's Airride (カービィのエアライド Kābī no Earaido), is a 2003 racing game video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the GameCube video game console starring Kirby, one of HAL's characters. Kirby Air Ride has the players and computer-controlled racers ride on Air Ride Machines. The game supports up to four players, and was the first GameCube title to support LAN play using broadband adapters and up to four GameCube systems. Air Ride received mixed critical reviews, which criticized the game's simplicity.