Template:Infobox Template:Series disambig Kid Icarus (光神話 パルテナの鏡 Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami?, Myth of Light: The Mirror of Palutena) is a platform game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and published by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System in 1986 and the NES in 1987. It was the eleventh best selling Famicom game released in 1986, selling approximately 1,090,000 copies in its lifetime. It is the first game in the Kid Icarus series, the second being Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters.
Kid Icarus is often compared to Metroid (which was released the same year), as it uses the same game engine. It even includes a Metroid-like enemy, known as "Komayto". The game manual theorizes that Komayto may have come from another planet. In volume 204 of Nintendo Power, an article was written about the game describing it as blending together elements from The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros., and Metroid, stating that Pit can "jump like Mario, collect items like Link, and shoot enemies like Samus."
The original Famicom Disk System versions feature save slots, unlike the North American version which uses a password system (known in-game as "Sacred Words"). As with Metroid, the FDS version of Kid Icarus also features higher-quality music and sound effects that take advantage of the system's additional sound channels. (see below). Kid Icarus was produced by Gunpei Yokoi and the music was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka. The game has been re-released twice: on August 10, 2004, for the Game Boy Advance as part of the Famicom Mini Series in Japan only, and on January 23, 2007, on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan. It has since been released in the North American, European, Australian, and South Korean Virtual Console markets as well.
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