Kid Icarus (series)

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Kid Icarus
Genre(s)	Platform
Developer(s)	Nintendo R&D1, Project Sora
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Nintendo 3DS
First release	Kid Icarus December 19, 1986
Latest release	Kid Icarus: Uprising March 22, 2012

Kid Icarus^[a] is a media franchise of fantasy video games by Nintendo. The games are set in a fantasy world based on classical antiquity and Greek mythology, called "Angel Land". The gameplay consists of a mixture of action, adventure and platform elements. The Kid Icarus franchise is known as a cult classic and a sibling series to the Metroid franchise.

The first installment, Kid Icarus, was released in 1986 for the Nintendo Entertainment System and was received to critical acclaim despite poor sales. A sequel, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters was later released for the Game Boy. After a 20-year hiatus, Kid Icarus: Uprising was released in 2012 for the Nintendo 3DS handheld.

History[]

After Nintendo's release of commercially successful platforming games in the 1980s, including Donkey Kong, Ice Climber, and Super Mario Bros., as well as the critically acclaimed adventure game The Legend of Zelda, the company was interested in entering a different genre. They began work on an action game. The game was called Metroid. Nintendo released Metroid for the Family Computer Disk System on August 6, 1986, and on the Nintendo Entertainment System one year later.^[1] One year later Kid Icarus was developed alongside as its sister game, it shares elements and programmers with Metroid.^[2] The game was produced by the same man who produced Metroid, Gunpei Yokoi, who previously produced Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Junior (1982) and the original Mario Bros. (1983), and it featured music written by Hirokazu Tanaka, who also composed for Duck Hunt (1984).^[1]

After the release of its handheld sequel, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, the series received no new installments for two decades. An installment for the Nintendo 64 was rumored to be in development,^[3] but was never released. In 2006, Pit was revealed to appear in Super Smash Bros. Brawl with a new design. During their E3 event in 2010, Nintendo unveiled Kid Icarus: Uprising for the Nintendo 3DS, the first game in the series since 1991. The game was released in March 2012 to positive reviews from critics.

Characters[]

The Kid Icarus series has a cast of recurring characters. The most common characters in the series are Pit, Palutena, Dark Pit, Poseidon, Medusa, Viridi, Arlon, Pyrrhon, Magnus, Phosphora, Cragalanche, Pandora, Dyntos, Thanatos, and Hades.

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