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NES Works #043: Kid Icarus (Patreon)

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2018-11-14 23:42:02

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2024-04

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So... we've kind of hit one of my all-time favorite stretches of NES releases on NES Works. I should be spacing these games out a bit to keep from having the good stuff clustered up all at once, but, well—it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, you know?

Anyway, here's Kid Icarus.

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Kid Icarus retrospective: A stygian Pit | NES Works #043

The first of Nintendo's major releases for 1987 arrives, bringing with it some new technical innovations that will play a huge part in allowing U.S. releases for the system to maintain parity with titles that ran on pricey expansion hardware in Japan—and to go even further beyond that in the years to come. Oh, and the game itself is pretty good, too. Just be sure to take care when writing down those passwords...