Kid Icarus
Kid Icarus is the title of a game for the
Famicom Disk System in
Japan. In other markets, it was released for the
Nintendo Entertainment System game console. Kid Icarus was designed by
Gunpei Yokoi (
1941-
1997), famous for designing
ROB and
Metroid. The main character in Kid Icarus was a small boy with wings named Pit, on a quest to rescue his goddess
Palutena and free the
Angel land from the grasp of
Medusa. The game was based on the
Metroid engine and contained both side and verticle scrolling action sequences. The music was composed by
Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka.