Kid Icarus

Platform : Nintendo Entertainment System

Publisher : Nintendo

Release date : 15 February 1987

Category : Action > Platformer

Game description

Kid Icarus. This was one of my favorite games as a kid simply because of the music. The game provides a great challenge and large variety of enemies. The graphics are colorful but most of the levels have a boring black background which really serves as a downer to the game's mostly upbeat music.

At first it's easy to compare this game to Metroid because of the level layout but that is truly where the similarities end. For one thing, the game is fairly linear and you can't go back to different areas in a level like you could in Metroid, that is until you make it to a fortress in the fourth part of the three stages in the game. Then you'll have to search room by room through a maze for the boss of the stage.

The goal of the game is to save the Goddess Palutena and Angel Land from Medusa. Your character's name is Pit and for a guy with wings he sure sucks at flying. You can't fly unless you buy a feather or equip the three magic treasures at the fourth and final stage of the game.

Try this game out if you like a challenge.

7 Hacks

Title	Description	Author	Category	Version	Date
Sploo's BigWide World	Sploo's BigWide World is a hack of Kid Icarus with new levels, seeking to smooth out the difficulty ...	Louie of the Lords	Complete	1.0	16 April 2024
Kid Icarus Randomizer	Kid Randomicus: Pure ROM Kid Icarus randomizer Randomizes several features of Kid Icarus. This is...	Rumbleminze	Complete	1.0.8	16 August 2022
Kid Icarus Timbre Table Patch	Music timbre information (e.g. duty cycle) for tracks in Kid Icarus is hard-coded in an extremely li...	Justin Olbrantz (Quantam)	Improvement	1.0	09 June 2022
Kid Icarus MMC1 to MMC3 Hack	Here is a patch that converts Kid Icarus's mapper from MMC1 to MMC3. Documentation is included.	infidelity	Improvement	1.0	07 June 2015
Kid Icarus - Retold	Kid Icarus - Angel Land Retold. This is the classic NES game from 1986 with the graphics ported/...	dACE	Improvement	1.2 (240)	29 March 2014
Kid Icarus ZZ	This is a slight challenge increase to the original Kid Icarus, with a few minor text and graphics c...	Zalbag	Improvement	1.0	04 July 2011
Kid Icarus in NES Land Journey	All enemy and item graphics have been taken from other classics, and a new Kid Icarus has been forge...	Redrum	Improvement	1.0	01 August 2008

7 Translations

Title	Language	Description	Author	Category	Version	Date
Kid Icarus	Indonesian	This is Indonesian translation from game Kid Icarus nes. There are 2 file patch inside.. Just sl...	Amrifaesal	Fully Playable	1.0	08 January 2022
Kid Icarus	Polish	This is a complete Polish Translation for Kid Icarus.	Voxar	Fully Playable	1.1	28 February 2020
Kid Icarus	Spanish	Translation to Spanish for "Kid Icarus" for the NES.	Wave	Fully Playable	1.0	15 May 2019
Kid Icarus	Arabic	The translation of Kid Icarus to Arabic for nes.	Diariko	Fully Playable	1.0	10 April 2019
Kid Icarus	Spanish	Here is the Spanish translation of Kid Icarus for the NES. Everything is translated, Titlescreen, C...	Pikachumanson	Fully Playable	1.1	16 March 2013
Kid Icarus	Japanese	This is a Japanese translation of "Kid Icarus" for the NES.	Kozakurainko	Fully Playable	1.0	21 February 2006
Kid Icarus	Swedish	Everything is translated, except for the title screen. Also of note: versions after 0.9 were never t...	MetalHead Hacking Group	Fully Playable	1.1b	27 July 2000

2 Utilities

Title	Description	Author	Category	Version	Language	Date
Pit Stop	Level editor for Kid Icarus. Allows editing of levels, objects, and palettes.	DahrkDaiz	Level Editors	0.7.3	English	29 Apr 2007
KidEdit	A Kid Icarus editor.	SnowBro	Level Editors	1.0	English	31 Dec 1969

1 Documents

Title	Description	Author	Category	Version	Date
Kid Icarus Music Format Addendum	Kid Icarus uses the same music engine and format as Metroid, which is already documented. This adden...	Justin Olbrantz (Quantam)	Audio Hacking	1.0	9 Jun 2022

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