Kid Icarus (derived from the Greek myth of Icarus) is the title of a game for the Famicom Disk System in Japan. In other markets, it was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System game console. Kid Icarus was designed by Gunpei Yokoi, famous for creating the Game Boy and Metroid, among other things. The main character in Kid Icarus was a small boy with wings named Pit, on a quest to rescue his goddess Palutena and free Angel Land from the grasp of Medusa. The game was based on the Metroid engine and contained both side and vertical scrolling action sequences. The music was composed by Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka.

Sequels

The game did spawn a Game Boy sequel entitled , but apart from long-forgotten rumours of a Super Famicom/Super NES follow-up that never came to be, no words of a new game in the series have been mentioned. In 2004 the game was re-released for the Game Boy Advance in Japan as part of the Famicom Minis Series (Classic NES Series).

Cartoon

Pit was also one of the starring characters in the 1989 - 1991 Nintendo-inspired cartoon series Captain N: The Game Master, where he was erroneously named Kid Icarus. He had a tendency to end sentences with '-icus', e.g. "Thanks a loticus!".

Cameos

Pit has also made several in-game cameo-appearances:

• Tetris (NES) - 1989
• F-1 Race (Game Boy) - 1990
• Kirby Super Star (SNES) - 1996
• Super Smash Bros. Melee (GameCube) - 2001 - There is a Pit trophy.

References

• The Kid Icarus Coliseum. In-game Credits. Retrieved Jan. 27, 2005.

See also

• List of computer and video games by category
• List of Famicom Disk System games
• List of NES games

External links

• The Kid Icarus Coliseum - a fansite dedicated to the original Kid Icarus
• Kid Icarus Shrine - another fansite dedicated to the original Kid Icarus