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Kid Icarus

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Kid Icarus is a 1986 action-platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System in Japan and the NES in Europe and North America. The player controls Pit, who shoots arrows at monsters while climbing through vertically scrolling stages and searching maze-like fortresses. After collecting three sacred treasures, Pit enters the sky temple, where the game becomes a scrolling shooter and he defeats Medusa to rescue Palutena.

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Kid Icarus1986Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters1991
Kid Icarus screenshot: pixel art, side-scrolling, flat / unlit (environment)
Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters screenshot: pixel art, side-scrolling, black outlines (environment)

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Release
Original release · NES / Famicom
Developer
Nintendo Research & Development 1, Tose
Publisher
Nintendo
Released
1986-12-19 JP, Famicom Disk System
1987-02-15 EU, NES
1987-07 NA, NES
Platforms
Famicom Disk System, NES, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 3DS
Variants
Kid Icarus (Famicom Disk System)
Type
platform_release
Platforms
  • Famicom Disk System
Released
  • 1986-12-19, JP, Famicom Disk System
Sources
Kid Icarus (NES)
Type
platform_release
Platforms
  • NES
Released
  • 1987-02-15, EU, NES
  • 1987-07, NA, NES
Sources
Kid Icarus (Game Boy Advance)
Type
platform_release
Platforms
  • Game Boy Advance
Released
  • 2004-08-10, JP, Game Boy Advance
Sources
Also known as
Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami (JP)
Credits
Toru Osawa Artist
Makoto Kano Artist
Satoru Okada Director
Gunpei Yokoi Producer
Toru Osawa Designer
Yoshio Sakamoto Designer
Hirokazu Tanaka Composer

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Kid Icarus series 2 games

Kid Icarus screenshot: pixel art, side-scrolling, flat / unlit (environment, combat)1986Kid IcarusKid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters screenshot: pixel art, side-scrolling, black outlines (environment, combat)1991Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters

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