Kid Icarus was released on the same day as Metroid in Japan, and it shares many of that games DNA. There is a password system, vertical scrolling and yes... even Metroids. Kid Icarus was released in July 1987 in the US, and we break down why this game starts out so hard, some of the hidden features, and detail the differences between the Famicom and NES versions.

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