I'm the mod and while it's getting off subject, no one's stopping anyone from talking about color schemes in Metroid as well as other Nintendo series. It's actually a good example of how convoluted the decisions that go into something as simple as a character's color design can be:
According to Wikipedia:
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| As Kirby's first appearance was on the monochrome screen of the Nintendo Game Boy, his "true" color could not be represented in-game. Sakurai intended Kirby to be pink. However, Shigeru Miyamoto had envisioned him as yellow.[3] Because of this ambiguity, Nintendo of America was left with some confusion when the game was ported to the West. The American box art, cartridge label, instruction booklet, and even the television commercial for Kirby's Dream Land features Kirby entirely white in color. The Japanese box art, however, correctly depicts Kirby as pink. |
So according to that, it was just Miyamoto's preference that Kirby be yellow. Apparently, he never appeared as yellow.
Here's another few sites that support that story:
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