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The evil Medusa has changed most of the men of Angel Land into stone statues and stolen the three sacred treasures, and it's up to you to slay her and reclaim the treasures and save your world! Armed with only your bow and arrow, you must advance through many different levels, worlds and palaces until you reach her. But along the way, her henchmen are ordered to stop you. By killing them, you recieve hearts and diamonds, which can be traded for special objects later in the game. Don your wings and get ready to fly into adventure!
~ Joshua Hoffman, All Game Guide
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Artist: Kid Icarus
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Similar Artists:

The Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel, Destroyer, Bright Eyes, Smog, Palace

Influenced By:

Robyn Hitchcock

Formal Connection With:

Psychatrone Rhonedak, Ted Baird
  • Active: 2000s
  • Genres: Rock
  • Instrument: Producer, Main Performer, Performer
  • Representative Albums: "The Metal West," "Maps of the Saints," "Be My Echo"

Biography

The recording project of Eric Schlittler, Kid Icarus has grown to incorporate a revolving cast of musicians and friends in northeastern Pennsylvania in the creation of lo-fi singer/songwriter rock. A prolific recorder in his own right, Schlittler has wasted little time since leaving his previous band Suetta in setting down an extensive body of work, from his own homemade cassette recordings to his releases on the Summersteps label. Starting out as a hopelessly amateurish home taper, using cheap boom boxes and reel-to-reel players, his first recordings are messy and fragmentary, displaying an affection for '60s rock and obscure singer/songwriters but ending up rather hit-or-miss. Enlisting the aid of more professional equipment and recording professionals, albums like 1999's Maps of the Saints and 2002's Be My Echo are saturated in the classic indie rock aesthetic, offering generous helpings of lo-fi hiss with off-the-wall songcraft reminiscent of the work of patriarchs like Robert Pollard. Through the early years of the 21st century, Schlittler continued to record but rarely toured or even performed live, adding a certain aura of mystery surrounding his character. ~ Matt Fink, All Music Guide
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Kid Icarus
Box art.jpg
North American boxart
Developer(s) Nintendo R&D1, TOSE [1]
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Designer(s) Gunpei Yokoi (producer)
Satoru Okada (director)
Composer(s) Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka
Series Kid Icarus
Engine Metroid
Platform(s) FDS, NES, GBA, Virtual Console
Release date(s) NES
JPN December 18, 1986
NA July 1987
EU 1987
Virtual Console

NA February 12, 2007
EU, AU February 23, 2007
Genre(s) Platform game
Mode(s) Single player
Rating(s) ESRB: E (Everyone) (Wii)[1]
OFLC: G (Wii)
Media FDS disk card
1 Mbit cartridge
For the title character, see Pit. For the series as a whole, see Kid Icarus (series). For the band, see Kid Icarus (band).

Kid Icarus​ (光神話 パルテナの鏡 Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami,? "Light Myth: Palthena's Mirror")[2] is a platforming video game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System in 1986 and the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987. It is the first game in the Kid Icarus series, the second being Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters. The game world is loosely based on Greek mythology, with Icarus and Medusa being drawn from myth.

Kid Icarus has been re-released twice: on August 10, 2004, for the Game Boy Advance as part of the Famicom Mini Series in Japan only, and on February 12, 2007, on the Wii's Virtual Console in North America. It was released on the European and Australian Virtual Consoles on February 23, 2007.

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Gameplay

The player, with rotating shield, faces a group of enemies in the Sky World.

Kid Icarus uses the same game engine as Metroid (which was released the same year). It even includes a Metroid enemy, though it is called "Komayto" in Kid Icarus. The game manual theorizes that Komayto may have come from another planet.[3] In volume 204 of Nintendo Power, an article was written about the game describing it as blending together elements from The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros., and Metroid, stating that Pit can "jump like Mario, collect items like Link, and shoot enemies like Samus."

Plot

In a time where humans and gods coexisted in harmony, the kingdom of Angel Land was ruled by two goddesses, Palutena the Goddess of Light and Medusa the Goddess of Darkness. While Palutena administered the light and helped the mortals cultivate their crops, Medusa despised the mortals and used the darkness to destroy their crops and turn the mortals into stone. Enraged, Palutena transformed Medusa into a hideous monster and banished her into the dark Underworld.

Development

The original Disk System versions feature save slots, unlike the North American version which uses a password system (known in-game as "Sacred Words"). As with Metroid, the FDS version of Kid Icarus also features higher quality music and sound effects that take advantage of the system's additional sound channels. See below.

Kid Icarus was produced by Gunpei Yokoi and the music was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka.[4]

Reception

Despite being overshadowed by Metroid, Kid Icarus is regularly recognized as a high quality game. It was awarded the 84th slot in IGN's 2003 list of the Top 100 Games of All Time[5] and was also inducted into the GameSpy Hall of Fame.[6] In Volume 199 of Nintendo Power, it was voted number 54 in a list of the top 200 Nintendo games of all time.[7] The protagonist of the game, Pit, was included in Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Wii. The game was also mentioned in the 2008 Jason Mraz song entitled The Dynamo of Volition. The game was also ranked 189th on Gameinformer's Top 200 Games of All Time.

References

  1. ^ "S.I.T. Developer Table (TOSE)". http://review-site.net/developer/to.html#トーセ. 
  2. ^ VGMdb, Famicom 20th Anniversary Original Sound Tracks Vol. 1
  3. ^ "Kid Icarus Manual". Vimm's Lair; The Manual Project. http://vimmslair.com/. Retrieved 2006-11-30.  p. 19; "One theory has it that it came from a planet other than the Earth."
  4. ^ "Transcription of game's credits". The Kid Icarus Coliseum. Retrieved 27 January 2005.
  5. ^ "IGN's Top 100 Games of All Time (81–90)". IGN. 29 April 2003. Retrieved 24 May 2006.
  6. ^ Cassidy, William. "Like its mythological namesake, Kid Icarus's time in the sun was entirely too brief". GameSpy. 14 September 2003. Retrieved 24 May 2006.
  7. ^ "NP Top 200". Nintendo Power 200: pp. 58–66. February 2006. .

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