Kid Icarus, known as in Japan, is an action platform video game for the Famicom Disk System in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in Europe and North America.

The first entry in Nintendo's Kid Icarus series, it was published in Japan in December 1986, and in Europe and North America in February and July 1987, respectively.

The story of Kid Icarus revolves around protagonist Pit's quest for three sacred treasures, which he must equip to rescue the Grecian fantasy world Angel Land and its ruler, the goddess Palutena.

Despite its mixed critical reception, Kid Icarus is a cult classic, and had shipped 1. 76 million copies by late 2003.

After the release of the Game Boy sequel Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters in 1991, the game series lay dormant for 20 years.

It was eventually revived with a 3D shooter for the Nintendo 3DS, titled Kid Icarus: Uprising, after Pit's inclusion as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Kid Icarus is an action platformer with role-playing elements.

The backstory of Kid Icarus is described in the instruction booklet: Before the events of the game, earth was ruled by the goddess, or Queen of light, Palutena, and the goddess, or Queen of darkness, Medusa.

Kid Icarus was designed at Nintendo's Research and Development 1 ( R & D1 ) division, while the programming was handled by the external company Intelligent Systems.

Kid Icarus was Toru Osawa's debut as a video game designer, and he was the only staff member working on the game at the beginning of the project.

Osawa intended to make Kid Icarus an action game with role-playing elements, and wrote a story rooted in Greek mythology, which he had always been fond of.

After Nintendo's action-adventure Metroid had been finished, more staff members were alloted to the development of Kid Icarus.

Hirokazu Tanaka composed the music for Kid Icarus.

He streamlined the development process, and made many decisions that affected the game design of Kid Icarus.

Osawa said that he had originally tried to make Kid Icarus completely serious, but opted for a more humorous approach after objections from the team.

Eventually, Kid Icarus was finished and entered production a mere three days before the release date.

In February and July 1987, respectively, a cartridge-based version of Kid Icarus was published for the NES in Europe and North America.

In August 2004, Kid Icarus was re-released in Japan as part of the Famicom Mini Disk System Selection for the Game Boy Advance.

A 3D Classics remake of Kid Icarus was published for the Nintendo 3DS handheld console in Europe on January 5, 2012 and in Australia on January 17, 2012.

A download code was given to users who registered two selected 3DS games with Nintendo in Japan and Europe or pre-ordered Kid Icarus: Uprising in North America from certain retailers before it was released.

Kid Icarus had shipped 1. 76 million copies worldwide by late 2003, and has gained a cult following.

In October 1992, a staff writer of the UK publication Nintendo Magazine System said that Kid Icarus was " pretty good fun ", but did not " compare too well " to other platform games, owing in part to its " rather dated " graphics.

Retro Gamer magazine's Stuart Hunt called Kid Icarus an " unsung hero of the NES " that " looks and sounds pretty ".

Although he considered the blend of gameplay elements from different genres a success, he said that Kid Icarus suffered from " frustrating " design flaws, such as its high difficulty level.

He found Kid Icarus to be " underwhelming ", " buggy " and " pretty annoying ", and noted that it exhibited " shrill music ... loose controls and some weird design decisions ".

Kid Boyd was unusually silent, Rankin watchful, a few paces apart.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.

In the group was an emcee named Ya Kid K from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who later led the group into international fame with hits like " Pump up the Jam " and " Shake That Body ".

His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.

The film was Mabel's Strange Predicament, but " The Tramp " character, as it became known, debuted to audiences in Kid Auto Races at Venice — shot later but released two days earlier.

The Kid ( 1921 film ) | The Kid ( 1921 ), with Jackie Coogan, combined comedy with drama and was Chaplin's first film to exceed an hour.

The Kid was in production until May 1920.

Dealing with issues of poverty and parent – child separation, The Kid is thought to be influenced by Chaplin's own childhood and was the first film to combine comedy and drama.

While the Platinum Age saw the first use of the term " comic book " ( The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats ( 1897 )), the first known full-color comic ( The Blackberries ( 1901 )), and the first monthly comic book ( Comics Monthly ( 1922 )), it was not until the Golden Age that the archetype of the superhero would originate.

For example, the director's cut of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was 122 minutes long.

Paul Newman was grateful to Lemmon for his support and offered him the role of the Sundance Kid, later played by Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but Lemmon turned it down.

With the era of rap metal on the decline, Kid Rock included several southern rock and country ballads on the album.

The Wild Bunch and its associates included at various times in its existence the MC Adrian " Tricky Kid " Thaws, the graffiti artist and lyricist Robert " 3D " Del Naja, and the DJs Nellee Hooper, Andrew " Mushroom " Vowles and Grant " Daddy G " Marshall.

The company's later movies included Silkwood, The Flamingo Kid and SpaceCamp ( the latter was the last movie ABC produced for cinemas.

In 2003, Tom Russell's album Modern Art included the song " The Kid from Spavinaw ", retelling the arc of Mantle's career.

Even historical figures such as Attila the Hun, Blackbeard, and Antonio López de Santa Anna, Billy The Kid, and Cao Cao have been included among his ancestors.

On January 21, 2008, El Records released the record Rebel Poets in America, which included classic poetry readings with jazz accompaniment by both Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, including such Patchen classics as " The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves " and " I Went To The City.

In the channel's first years, shows that aired during its broadcast day included Welcome to Pooh Corner and You and Me Kid along with several foreign animated series and movies including Asterix, The Raccoons, Paddington Bear, and the Australian western Five Mile Creek ; the original late night schedule featured reruns of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

The line-up of late afternoon adventure serials included Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders, The Cisco Kid, Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, Captain Midnight, and The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters.

The album contained the hit singles, " Robert De Niro's Waiting ...," and their first U. S. Top 10 hit, " Cruel Summer " ( 1983 ), which was included in the movie The Karate Kid.

In 2008, headliners included Hank Williams Jr., ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Trace Adkins, and in 2009, headliners included Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Charlie Daniels, Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn, The Black Crowes, Kid Rock and many more.

Films made in Gallup included Billy the Kid ( 1930 ), Pursued ( 1947 ), The Sea of Grass ( 1947 ), Four Faces West ( 1948 ), Only the Valiant ( 1951 ), Ace in the Hole ( 1951 ), Escape from Fort Bravo ( 1953 ), A Distant Trumpet ( 1964 ) and The Hallelujah Trail ( 1965 ).

Guests on other nights included members of the Grateful Dead, Phish, Levon Helm and his band, and represented genres from bluesman Buddy Guy to jazz great Lenny White to rap-rock-country eccentric Kid Rock.

Other producers included DJ Premier, Erick Sermon, The 45 King, and Kid Capri.

Harry Von Tilzer's hits included " A Bird in a Gilded Cage ", " Cubanola Glide ", " Wait ' Til The Sun Shines Nellie ", " Old King Tut ", " All Alone ", " Mariutch ", " The Ragtime Goblin Man ," " I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid!

These included the acclaimed Grandma's Boy, which, ( along with Chaplin's The Kid ), pioneered the combination of complex character development and film comedy, the highly popular Safety Last!

These included his most accomplished mature features Girl Shy, The Freshman ( his highest-grossing silent feature ), The Kid Brother, and Speedy, his final silent film.

Visiting faculty have included Giorgio Agamben, Chantal Akerman, Pierre Alféri, Pierre Aubenque, Alain Badiou, Lewis Baltz, Julian Barnes, Jean Baudrillard, Yve-Alain Bois, Catherine Breillat, Victor Burgin, Judith Butler, Sophie Calle, Hélène Cixous, Diane Davis, Manuel DeLanda, Claire Denis, Jacques Derrida, Tracey Emin, Bracha Ettinger, Christopher Fynsk, Antony Gormley, Peter Greenaway, Durs Grünbein, Werner Hamacher, Barbara Hammer, Donna Haraway, Michael Hardt, Martin Hielscher, Michel Houellebecq, Shelley Jackson, Mitchell Joachim, Friedrich Kittler, Claude Lanzmann, Christian Marclay, Colum McCann, Carl Mitcham, Jean-Luc Nancy, Klaus Ottmann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Cornelia Parker, Laurence A. Rickels, Avital Ronell, Paul D. Miller a. k. a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Wolfgang Schirmacher, Volker Schlöndorff, Michael Schmidt, Hendrik Speck, Bruce Sterling, Allucquére Sandy Stone, Elia Suleiman, Friedrich Ulfers, Gregory Ulmer, Agnès Varda, Paul Virilio, Victor J. Vitanza, Hubertus von Amelunxen, Margarethe von Trotta, John Waters, Samuel Weber, Caveh Zahedi, Krzysztof Zanussi, Siegfried Zielinski, Slavoj Žižek and Jan Zwicky.

Celebrities have included Carole Lee Scott, in character as Grotbags ( from Rod Hull and Emu's enemy ), Timmy Mallett, Keith Chegwin, Ross Kemp ( EastEnders < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Grant Mitchell ), Ken Morley ( Coronation Street < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Reg Holdsworth ), David Neilson ( Coronation Street < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Roy Cropper ), Beverley Callard ( Coronation Street < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Liz McDonald ), Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog, and the Milky Bar Kid.

These heroes included Mastermind Excello, Blackjack, the Great Video, Monstro, Heartbreak Kid, and Positron.

Artists featured included Teddy Buckner, Kid Ory and Wild Bill Davison.

Later in 1994, DiBiase purchased the contracts of many wrestlers for his Million Dollar Corporation stable in the WWF, which over time included I. R. S., Bam Bam Bigelow, Nikolai Volkoff, Kama, King Kong Bundy, Sycho Sid, 1-2-3 Kid, and in a swerve, Tatanka.

Ambrose Bierce included characters based on the Big Four in his work Black Beetles in Amber as Sootymug ( Hopkins ), Happy Hunty ( Huntington ), Cowboy Charley ( Crocker ) and Leland, The Kid ( Stanford ).

Roberts's other starring roles included Raggedy Man ( 1981 ), The Pope of Greenwich Village ( 1984 ), The Coca-Cola Kid ( 1985 ), Nobody's Fool ( 1986 ), Best of the Best ( 1989 ), By the Sword ( 1991 ), Best of the Best 2 ( 1993 ), The Immortals ( 1995 ), La Cucaracha ( 1998 ), Purgatory ( 1999 ), and Stiletto Dance ( 2001 ).