I still remember when I was a boy standing in a store in the summer of 1987; my mom was going to let me buy one NES game and I had to make a decision fast. There weren't many new games, and I picked Kid Icarus randomly because I had to get something. I became obsessed with it and, since there was no school, I practised for hours every day and finished it in about a week. An excellent game with lots of variety. The addition of the Zelda elements made it more than just a platformer - it was an adventure. I just wish I'd been able to understand the puns!
Awesome! Where I grew up, probably everywhere, the game went out of print fast so not everyone had it. I was let down when Nintendo reissued Metroid but not Kid Icarus in the early 90s and it’s a shame the game gets a bad rep. I do think 1-1 to 1-3 is needlessly cruel because it’s easy to fall to your death which is frustrating and probably turned off a lot of people to the game. No other game was like that. Ah well it makes me feel we’re in a special club from these experiences and that’s cool! 🍆
Oh how I wish Kid Icarus would get noticed by Nintendo more. It's been over 5 years since Uprising and not a word has come out. Oh well, maybe one day.
Game explain came out with a recent video explaining how Sakurai doesn’t plan on re mastering uprising for the switch... so now our only hope is a sequel.
As a software developer, the development process of this game sounds like a nightmare. "Finishing" on the 16th and releasing on the 19th is unbelievable (in a negative sense). This video is great however.
Thanks! Well the info I've found said that it didn't take long to copy some disks and ship them. However I found no info about how many shipped on that day or where. It's very possible that only a few 1000 came out at first and then more later. In the interview I mention there was a hint that he might be forgiven if the deadline passed but they got it done.
Didn’t the creator of Kid Icarus Uprising give a statement on a sequel? Pretty sure he said he wouldn’t make another one since the first was hard on him
I've never played this game before. But watching this video: _I feel like you're preparing me for an intense journey that I'm about to embark upon._ LoL 😅🏹
One thing that no one ever talks about (and something I spotted immediately as a kid) is in the instruction manual the drawn image for the enemy "Syren" is topless! Not something you'd expect in a Nintendo game aimed at kids. Whats even more surprising is that for the online version Nintendo provided for the NES mini, this picture remains. In 30 years you'd thought at least one parent would of complained...nope.
Thanks! It’s my absolute favorite 8 bit game, no contest. I released it on Dec 16, 2016 and I was adamant to make it the best possible. I’m glad you found it because much worse videos like the irate gamer and “this game sucks I don’t understand it” type videos get top search. Cheers!
Most people sadly forget about this classic game. Good job bringing it back for the birthday! And saw your post on the YTTalk forums, good job with it! :D
Thanks! I was a little sad when the only news sites that talked about the anniversary were the ones who used my video. That's cool to have happen but I thought others would mention it too but none did!
That is still pretty cool that someone used your video. But I can understand that. Its sad that most people ignore classical games, but i guess that is just the world that we live in!
But it the 30th! A round number! If it was 28th or something I could understand. Especially when he is in Smash Bros. there's no excuse really! But I've talked to about 100 people since putting this up who feel the same way so we're not alone
Playing through Kid Icarus right now, and am watching a lot of videos about it to try and learn more. If all the videos I’ve watched, this has hands down been the most informative! Really well done
Thanks so much for this video! I watched this a few days ago after I started playing Uprising. Since then I’ve dug out my old Of Myth and Monsters cart and beaten it for the first time, and now I’m working my way through the 3D Classics version of the original game. I could never understand what I was supposed to be doing in Kid Icarus, but you really cleared it up in this video. I’m a total convert now, and can’t believe how good this series is! Thanks again.
Definitely! It feels like it could so easily have been a big Nintendo series. What a shame that there are only three game in the entire series. I wonder where the series would have gone if it had’ve been more successful. What would a SNES, N64 or GameCube version be like? Ah well, hopefully it’ll get another shot some day...
I love this review so much, its perfect level of analytical and educational depth for a criminally underrated game series. Thank you so much for making my fandom seem justified after 30+ years :)
I play Smash Bros for the Wii U competitively and I've been looking up and playing the original games the characters come from. Kid Icarus is such a gem. Great video, liked and subbed!
Greece is also home to many hot springs and has mythology around them, such as the springs of Cyprus being associated with Aphrodite. In fact, Icaria island, named for that being where the heated body of Icarus fell, is also famous for it's hot springs. I do believe the inspiration in the game are the Japanese onsen, though of course. There's surprising number of mythic and cultural parallels between Japanese and Ancient Greek culture.
Thanks! This is an old one from when I didn’t know what I was doing so this comment means a lot to me! I’ll try to not let you down in the future. Thanks for support always
I’d love an in-depth look of all the newly introduced characters in Uprising and how they are based off their Greek Counterparts, it would make for a very fun Greek History Lesson and educate a lot of us plus your voice is so soft and calm, I love you so much🏹❤️
@@GTV-Japan With Kid Icarus’s 35th Anniversary I hope you have the time to look at the characters introduced in Uprising and how they are based off Greek Mythology.
Thanks for this episode. To be honest I kinda shied away this game for the same reasons that you mentioned (when I first got my NES) but now I think I'll give it a good ol' college try!!
Ah! I loved the 8-bit Kid Icarus and thought I was pretty good at gaming secrets but I did NOT know about this secret scoring system! Fascinating stuff! And I didn't know about the baths and Japanese secrets until the times I visited Japan growing up and as a young adult. So going back to this game and looking at it like you said.. I'll never see it the same. Damn Gajinilionaire, is there anything from our era that you DON'T know?? (I'm teasing) Wow. I love knowing the background. And Osawa.. (bows) much respect for working os hard on a great classic. I'm glad Kid Icarus, Pit, and Palutena are getting the recognition they deserve!!
Yea for me kid Icarus Was the first game where after being in japan I looked around and was like oh wow they put so much culture into the games. It all just clicked and I was never ever the same
I only found your videos last month, and promptly subscribed after seeing these high-quality and fun videos! It has also been fun going through your back catalog to check out past videos. And even though I lived in Japan, the "nasu" part as well as others have given me some new trivia knowledge.
That’s great. It’s good to know that work pays off and people are still watching. It’s almost time for the winter break so I hope the old eps will be enough to tide you over till come back in April
By the way the more you comment the more I’ll remember and recognize who you are. I get a ton of comments but about 20 people up to now are regular commenters and I think I can add you to that list by now! 😃
@@GTV-Japan Your comment came right while I was watching another of your videos ("Hands On With The PC Engine Mini"). Man, you have some great content! It's too bad that I caught you at a time when you're about to take a multi-month break...but as you said, at least I'll have your back catalog to tide me over. I do tend to comment a lot, so we'll see if I end up breaking into a "Top 5" list... Anyway, thanks for the chat!
Excellent video! This is exactly the type of video game content that I like to watch on RUclips. I love Kid Icarus and wish there were more sequels (I don't play handhelds anymore really, so I've never played Uprising). Thanks for including that cryptic scoring system. I've always wondered about that and think I may try some new strategies cuz I don't think I've ever seen that best ending. And those commercials for Kid Icarus and Metroid were great!
In that Japanese commercial Medusa looked a lot like Mother Brain with snakes...Mother Brain With Snakes would make a great band name - DO NOT STEAL !!
happy 34th anniversary kid icarus!!!(and 609th birthday bayonetta.:3) favorite story in a nintendo game,love it's characters(pit & palutena are cinnamon rolls,hades is my favorite nintendo villain,loved viridi/phosphora/medusa and dark pit is a great handled rival character than most modern examples.) and especially how all out it went with promotional material(along with a sequel i'd love to see more anime shorts,an appearance in the nintendo world park and even amiibo of the other characters.:3)
Thanks! And you caught an early video. Try something newer as I got better. But really check out more and comment on what you like. Happy to chat anytime
@@GTV-Japan I definitely will ! And I got to mention that your video on Yume Kojo/ Doki Doki Panic I watched after this must be one of my all-time favorite documentaries on RUclips! The SMB2 story has been done to death, or so I thought, but Yume Kojo -angle was truly captuvating stuff!
Thanks so much! Yea that was kind of the point. To drive home that there’s 1000 videos that repeat the same info but there’s a giant hole everyone missed
I’ve seen a 16 bit fan mod of the game long long ago but yea it’s sad. Really for me Nintendo was just the NES and when that was over I was on to TurboDuo and then PlayStation. Too bad because 16 bit Pit would have kept me!
There was a time in which Nintendo had a strange policy of making their IP's first game on the NES, the second for the GB and the third installment for the SNES. Metroid Is sn example of that.
KIU has become the BEST 3DS game ever IMO. I also own an original copy of the GBC Myths and Monsters, the 3D remix of KI, and the VC versión of the GB. Also the KI saga has an unique game play system not seen in any other game. KIU translated it all almost perfectly into 3D, and then some more for good measure. But KIU has the best story, graphics, MUSIC and replay value of any 3DS game ever.
16 December? One day later and it would have been released on my birthday! I gave the game a try on Nestopia, and yes, it's very difficult, but it seems like you are more likely to die by falling than by being hit. Also the whole hidden scoring system is indeed interesting, if I ever get deeper into the game I will remember all the tips. A video worth the wait!
Like all the fan-favourite Nintendo protagonists, Pit has a special place in my heart. Who else wants to beg - no - command Nintendo to cooperate into creating another Kid Icarus game. Or maybe a full-feature MOVIE (by DreamWorks Animation)!
Just imagine if Kid Icarus was as popular as Metroid and had the same amount of games that Metroid got. I’m saying this because both games were made on the same engine and shared the same type of jellyfish enemy Metroid/Komaytos. Imagine an alternate universe where Kid Icarus was more popular than Metroid and the Metroid series only got 2 games and eventually a 3rd game. *I WANT TO CHECK OUT THAT ALTERNATE UNIVERSE*
One can dream! It never says Kid Icarus takes place on Earth. Maybe it’s SR 387? I’m glad you found this video. Of all the ones I’ve made (52 so far) this was the most fun I have had actually making a video because I love the game so so much
Pit was planned for Smash 64 but was cut due to time constraints and problems animating his wings, even Fire Emblem’s Marth was supposed to be in 64. While Marth and Roy made it in Melee Pit made it in as a Trophy that specifically reads “Will Pit ever fight again?” As a kid I never bothered to read his Trophy description and was introduced to Pit in Brawl’s Trailers. I was born in 1995 so I didn’t grow up in the NES days. Smash Bros Brawl made Pit relevant again, that should’ve paved the way for more Kid Icarus games like Melee paved the way for Fire Emblem games to be released everywhere and look how great the series is doing and it’s position. It’s just really strange how Kid Icarus and especially F-Zero go into Hibernation only to be awakened for Smash Bros.
Ah I didn’t know that. First I’m like 20 years older so I grew up on Atari, arcade and later Nintendo. By the N64 for guys my age, nintendo was a joke. Carts, b/w game boy and then lost Square soft. My little brother born in 1988, is die hard Nintendo and started in 64. I did get smash for Wii U and it was great to play him. But really I only get into Nintendo again after coming to japan because it’s them and Sony that’s all that’s left and I had money so I just bought everything. Really it wouldn’t be too hard to shop out a game for Pit. But I guess they don’t think it’ll sell? No idea. Also I don’t know how well the 3ds game sold but it requires some adapter for some models of something (?) so that might be the end. I wished they’d add Pit in an eggplant car for Mario Kart but that’s way too crazy haha
For some context, Uprising sold around 1.2 million units. It sold relatively well(actually rather impressively given it had jack in more than 20 years) but under the expectations Nintendo had(somehow. Apparently they expected it to be a Metroid Prime, or something similar of a smash hit. Don't quote me on it though). Chances are they're foreseeing it going the F Zero and Golden Sun route. Those franchises weren't put to sleep just to annoy fans, their respective sales were genuinely decreasing even if their first games did quite well.
+metajex yea, that's really rough because many people would think trying to get the barrel or credit card would help out but it really doesn't. Good luck on the best ending. The upgrade in 2-2 is the hardest to get.
Lovin your channel ! bingin your stuff right now. Strangely enough I found your channel on one of Guru Larry's video where someone claimed you were promoting your channel in a comment (something about SMB2 and how you moved to Japan), which was weird cuz I didnt see you mention you had a channel. So I clicked on your name, and here we are. I guess that guy was psychic and could predict the future.
Well thanks for finding me! What video was that? I’ve become friends with Larry over time actually and he’s a really decent guy. But I watch all of his stuff so I forgot where I might’ve said that. Regardless yep here we are 🍺
@18:16 Ah yes I learned about these in Japanese History class. The imperial regalia, The 3 Modern Treasures & their successors, from the 1970’s & 1980’s The 3 Ks (Or Cs) Kura, Kara, & Karu (Cooler/Air Conditioning, Color/ Color TV, and Car.... well Car).
If you want an almost guaranteed way to beat the game, buy the barrel/win it in the treasure room before the first boss room. Get the first boss level and grind hearts since enemies respawn. Fill the barrel with the maximum amount of bottles of life. You get the points and you will be carrying eight extra bars of life.
Thanks for putting this together. Kid Icarus, although containing few games, is one of my favorite game franchises. Merry Christmas. Hope you get to enjoy some roasted eggplant! 🍆
I think the first 3 years or so that I owned this game I rarely made it to level 1-3 it's amazing that the music and memories of it have made this my favorite of all time...sorry Zelda I love u too
@@GTV-Japan kid eye car us as I call it was made by the Metroid team can u imagine if the music from both games was swapped....I think it would work out pretty well.....oh yeah happy holidays to you and the family K.
There’s an episode of the Cosby show where Cliff quizzes Theo on his homework and also uses the eye car us pronunciation! His son corrects him. You hav w a good holiday too!!
@@GTV-Japan you might not know what I'm talking about but in the US they made a game called miracle piano do you know if they ever released that for the famicom
Christopher Sobieniak I put a link with more detail about it but they are very important and believed to be kept separate and protected. During WW2 it's been said the emperor Showa said "protect the treasures at all costs "
I would love to see Pit deal with the horrors of X-Parasite from metroid an watch scream in agony as the creature destroys and replaces him and every denizen of his world.
@@GTV-Japan well, there was a time (through the 80's and early 90's) when the main character of the story suddenly got his/her name confused with the story title itself in the fan communities. Notable examples are: Link is a hero of The Legend of Zelda, not Zelda; Samus Aran is a heroine of the Metroid series; main character of the famous manga/anime AKIRA isn't called Akira. That's what this meme means.
Gaijillionaire Cool, I like that, as for SSB Melee, in a way it did, as for a lot of young people in the USA, the Pit Trophy was our first mention of the game Kid Icarus, naturally, they were curious about it, as I was. it was a good thing in retrospect, as the game was, as you pointed, out was nearly forgotten. Those who experienced it for the love of the series, the first time around, were eager to share the experience. I admit, I brought up Melee as that was my first exposure to Kid Icarus, as one of the trophies to win. But I got curious, especially after many others brought up the game. Eventually I tried it in 2008, it is one of the greatest Nintendo Games made, I regret that I was very young playing Nintendo first hand, and missed out on some games due to ignorance of being young. Also thanks for the tips, it should make the game allot easier to play.
@@GTV-Japan its all your fault. I watched your video on it and got the retro fever. One of my faves and man did i curse the tv out a few times. Even got the best ending
@@GTV-Japan sure did buddy. Especially the part about the point systems. Now the wifes cooking me up some eggplant since i started to get a craving for it in the last fortress. Also learned the japenese word for nurse because of the video. See its multipurpose. Now if it can only walk the dog
I understand from your video the reasoning and logic behind how the points system works but it would be nice if it wasn't so overcomplicated and nonsense. One thing you left out that I wondered if you could answer was why Kid Icarus has mostly been ignored over the years. Shouldn't we have like six or seven games from Nintendo about him by now?
I can’t answer why he’s been ignored. Just that it’s sad. However I think that if they had a little more cartridge space and a little more time to improve the game by adding a level counter or exp on screen it could have helped a lot more.
This is my sec fav game after zelda 1 im not a big mario fan yes mario has great games ill say that but after the first one i needed a real game to blow my lil kid mind and mario didnt do it for me maybe because as a kid i my fav cartoon was robotech so i wanted a game that didnt treat me as a kid cause this game was so hard and mario wasnt.
@@GTV-Japan no thank you for the time machine. Love the channel wish i found it sooner but you will always get a like from me and im a sub with all alerts on too champ.
@@GTV-Japan man are you kidding me i been subbing to the big channels and i have to say your the best i wish like i said in the last post i found you sooner. Man you bring me back im trying to teach my kids what a real game feels like not that the new stuff isnt good but its not the same with patches they at a point can change the game for the better but old school is just has that i have no choice but beat it. Parents didnt know how to buy games like we do now. Im a 44 yr old parent of 3 and i know how to buy the right game but as kids parent most times picked trash but jems like icarus and metroids was a mistake from them they see a flashy box (anything ljn not say because avng) they get and most times they suck but we had to do so if you were lucky like me and rented icarus and got to pick a game for the 1 or 2 times a yr you get a game other then xmas you beat the fk (sorry) out of it. So once again thank i want to do what you do with my collection because if you dont see it you help me make memorys with my kids. I owe u 1.
wonder what fans in Japan thought after seeing that Samus is female. guess being based on somebody having wings of feathers and wax was the reason Pit's wings burned in the Gameboy game's ending. I think everyone thought wtf happened there and now I know why it happened. Not that it makes the ending any better.
The original Contra was the perfect NES game. Great graphics, you could fire in all directions, AND YOUR BULLETS WENT THE ENTIRE WAY ACROSS THE SCREEN. Contra ruined gaming in that generation for me as I could never understand why your shots in so many other games didn't go very far or why you couldn't fire in all directions.. I actually liked Kid Icarus. .. But hated how you couldn't shoot all the way across the screen. I would submit that simply being able to shoot upward allowed the game to hold an iconic place as hardly any other game let you do that... (I understand that shooting across the screen came as an upgrade sometimes, but that's total BS. The strength of a shot should have been an upgrade - not distance. Ruined a lot of games for me.)
Good points! The short shot is a handicap in the game especially when if you miss, you’re hurting your chances for the best ending later. Thanks for watching as always 🏹
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I still remember when I was a boy standing in a store in the summer of 1987; my mom was going to let me buy one NES game and I had to make a decision fast. There weren't many new games, and I picked Kid Icarus randomly because I had to get something. I became obsessed with it and, since there was no school, I practised for hours every day and finished it in about a week. An excellent game with lots of variety. The addition of the Zelda elements made it more than just a platformer - it was an adventure. I just wish I'd been able to understand the puns!
Awesome! Where I grew up, probably everywhere, the game went out of print fast so not everyone had it. I was let down when Nintendo reissued Metroid but not Kid Icarus in the early 90s and it’s a shame the game gets a bad rep. I do think 1-1 to 1-3 is needlessly cruel because it’s easy to fall to your death which is frustrating and probably turned off a lot of people to the game. No other game was like that. Ah well it makes me feel we’re in a special club from these experiences and that’s cool! 🍆
Oh how I wish Kid Icarus would get noticed by Nintendo more. It's been over 5 years since Uprising and not a word has come out. Oh well, maybe one day.
+YoshiDryBones me too! If you really liked this video please share it and make it and kid icarus more well known!
YoshiDryBones do u know why I’m here :(?
Maybe on the Switch my friend
Why
Game explain came out with a recent video explaining how Sakurai doesn’t plan on re mastering uprising for the switch... so now our only hope is a sequel.
I beat this game as a kid, then as a teenager, neither time did I have any idea about the scoring system. This game just got a lot better, thanks!
Awesome. Thanks!
As a software developer, the development process of this game sounds like a nightmare. "Finishing" on the 16th and releasing on the 19th is unbelievable (in a negative sense).
This video is great however.
Thanks! Well the info I've found said that it didn't take long to copy some disks and ship them. However I found no info about how many shipped on that day or where. It's very possible that only a few 1000 came out at first and then more later. In the interview I mention there was a hint that he might be forgiven if the deadline passed but they got it done.
Kid Icarus was the first game I ever played on the NES..the start of the greatest era in video games..love your videos my man 👊🏼
Thanks! Kid Icarus is one my all time favs! 👼🏻
How does this not have more views? Likely the most complete & thorough review/history of one of the 8 bit era's all time great games.
Thanks for your comment! Why not more views? Good question! Why do people who make videos about nothing have millions of views? I just don't know.
glad someone is celebrating it :D
Thanks! I didn't know about anyone else but nothing was stopping me! Pass it on 🍆
Gaijillionaire I am right now making a video about kid Icarus but I still need to Finnish it up
Awesome let me know when it's done
Happy Birthday, Pit.
I know I'm replying late butttt this made me laugh
Better late than never
And yet we STILL don't get a sequel for Uprising. It's extremely aggravating. :P
I share your frustration.
Faith Simpson there wouldn't be a kid Icarus game in the next 21 years
I wish if just a new Kid Icarus come to switch
Didn’t the creator of Kid Icarus Uprising give a statement on a sequel? Pretty sure he said he wouldn’t make another one since the first was hard on him
One day I may do a kid icarus game with the allowance of the man himself
I've never played this game before.
But watching this video: _I feel like you're preparing me for an intense journey that I'm about to embark upon._ LoL 😅🏹
One thing that no one ever talks about (and something I spotted immediately as a kid) is in the instruction manual the drawn image for the enemy "Syren" is topless! Not something you'd expect in a Nintendo game aimed at kids. Whats even more surprising is that for the online version Nintendo provided for the NES mini, this picture remains. In 30 years you'd thought at least one parent would of complained...nope.
The great thing about classical art! Thanks for watching
The visuals look so mystical and otherworldly. I don't know if they will ever be able to recapture the feeling evoked here in modern games.
Crackling fire shall be needed.
Really awesome!!
Thanks. Glad you liked!
Man thank u for this it’s probably the best retrospective on Kidd Icarus I’ve seen
Thanks! It’s my absolute favorite 8 bit game, no contest. I released it on Dec 16, 2016 and I was adamant to make it the best possible. I’m glad you found it because much worse videos like the irate gamer and “this game sucks I don’t understand it” type videos get top search. Cheers!
Most people sadly forget about this classic game. Good job bringing it back for the birthday! And saw your post on the YTTalk forums, good job with it! :D
Thanks! I was a little sad when the only news sites that talked about the anniversary were the ones who used my video. That's cool to have happen but I thought others would mention it too but none did!
That is still pretty cool that someone used your video. But I can understand that. Its sad that most people ignore classical games, but i guess that is just the world that we live in!
But it the 30th! A round number! If it was 28th or something I could understand. Especially when he is in Smash Bros. there's no excuse really! But I've talked to about 100 people since putting this up who feel the same way so we're not alone
Fair point. Gave you a sub, hope you enjoy turkey! :P
Thanks! Please check out my video about Yume Kojo for a similar lost info type video
Playing through Kid Icarus right now, and am watching a lot of videos about it to try and learn more. If all the videos I’ve watched, this has hands down been the most informative! Really well done
Thanks! It’s my favorite 8 bit game so I hope it helps 🍆
Thanks so much for this video! I watched this a few days ago after I started playing Uprising. Since then I’ve dug out my old Of Myth and Monsters cart and beaten it for the first time, and now I’m working my way through the 3D Classics version of the original game. I could never understand what I was supposed to be doing in Kid Icarus, but you really cleared it up in this video. I’m a total convert now, and can’t believe how good this series is! Thanks again.
I think if they could have just explained it a little clearer, things would have taken off! thanks for watching
Definitely! It feels like it could so easily have been a big Nintendo series. What a shame that there are only three game in the entire series. I wonder where the series would have gone if it had’ve been more successful. What would a SNES, N64 or GameCube version be like? Ah well, hopefully it’ll get another shot some day...
It’d be somewhere between Metroid and Kirby in popularity I think
I love this review so much, its perfect level of analytical and educational depth for a criminally underrated game series. Thank you so much for making my fandom seem justified after 30+ years :)
You’re welcome ! It’s my favorite NES game and deserves a proper explanation
I play Smash Bros for the Wii U competitively and I've been looking up and playing the original games the characters come from. Kid Icarus is such a gem. Great video, liked and subbed!
+J Noobz thanks! Glad you came and watched it. If you ever make it to Japan let's play smash sometime
Your videos are so rich and soul soothing. Thank you so much for all the great work you do.
Thanks I’m glad you liked it
Greece is also home to many hot springs and has mythology around them, such as the springs of Cyprus being associated with Aphrodite. In fact, Icaria island, named for that being where the heated body of Icarus fell, is also famous for it's hot springs. I do believe the inspiration in the game are the Japanese onsen, though of course. There's surprising number of mythic and cultural parallels between Japanese and Ancient Greek culture.
That is so cool! Thanks for sharing that information!
I am consistently impressed and delighted with the amount of effort that goes into these videos. This is truly a gem of a channel.
Thanks! This is an old one from when I didn’t know what I was doing so this comment means a lot to me! I’ll try to not let you down in the future. Thanks for support always
I’d love an in-depth look of all the newly introduced characters in Uprising and how they are based off their Greek Counterparts, it would make for a very fun Greek History Lesson and educate a lot of us plus your voice is so soft and calm, I love you so much🏹❤️
Aw thanks but I’m no well versed in that game as the original. I’ll look it up though!
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With Kid Icarus’s 35th Anniversary I hope you have the time to look at the characters introduced in Uprising and how they are based off Greek Mythology.
I have something else planned for kid Icarus later this year instead
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I’m very excited for what you have in store for us this year! Keep up the fantastic work!
Sure thing!
Thanks for this episode. To be honest I kinda shied away this game for the same reasons that you mentioned (when I first got my NES) but now I think I'll give it a good ol' college try!!
Loving these vids. You've really hit your stride. Excited to catch up!
Thanks! If you’re watching kid Icarus that’s still pretty early but it’s all good! Thanks for the support!! 🏹
Ah! I loved the 8-bit Kid Icarus and thought I was pretty good at gaming secrets but I did NOT know about this secret scoring system! Fascinating stuff! And I didn't know about the baths and Japanese secrets until the times I visited Japan growing up and as a young adult. So going back to this game and looking at it like you said.. I'll never see it the same.
Damn Gajinilionaire, is there anything from our era that you DON'T know?? (I'm teasing)
Wow. I love knowing the background. And Osawa.. (bows) much respect for working os hard on a great classic. I'm glad Kid Icarus, Pit, and Palutena are getting the recognition they deserve!!
Yea for me kid Icarus Was the first game where after being in japan I looked around and was like oh wow they put so much culture into the games. It all just clicked and I was never ever the same
No. There’s nothing I don’t know. Also teasing
I only found your videos last month, and promptly subscribed after seeing these high-quality and fun videos! It has also been fun going through your back catalog to check out past videos. And even though I lived in Japan, the "nasu" part as well as others have given me some new trivia knowledge.
That’s great. It’s good to know that work pays off and people are still watching. It’s almost time for the winter break so I hope the old eps will be enough to tide you over till come back in April
By the way the more you comment the more I’ll remember and recognize who you are. I get a ton of comments but about 20 people up to now are regular commenters and I think I can add you to that list by now! 😃
@@GTV-Japan Your comment came right while I was watching another of your videos ("Hands On With The PC Engine Mini"). Man, you have some great content! It's too bad that I caught you at a time when you're about to take a multi-month break...but as you said, at least I'll have your back catalog to tide me over. I do tend to comment a lot, so we'll see if I end up breaking into a "Top 5" list... Anyway, thanks for the chat!
@@Rationalific yeah. Well I need to take that time to get my job in order as well as writing new episodes which takes time
Since Kid Icarus is one of my fav NES games, i really enjoyed this video. Thx for your effort!
It’s my favorite thanks for watching
alright, this is my new favorite channel. I have to thank jadan for tagging you so I was able to find this channel.
Thanks! Jadan is awesome
this video deserves 10 times the views it has.
I think so too. I just wish kid Icarus had 10 times the sales it did
intresting video!
Excellent video! This is exactly the type of video game content that I like to watch on RUclips.
I love Kid Icarus and wish there were more sequels (I don't play handhelds anymore really, so I've never played Uprising). Thanks for including that cryptic scoring system. I've always wondered about that and think I may try some new strategies cuz I don't think I've ever seen that best ending. And those commercials for Kid Icarus and Metroid were great!
Thanks. Glad you liked! I'll keep putting this kind of stuff out as much as I can
Sweet!
Great video, man! Lots of valuable information ---must've taken a lot of research
There was! But it's worth it to put the work in
In that Japanese commercial Medusa looked a lot like Mother Brain with snakes...Mother Brain With Snakes would make a great band name - DO NOT STEAL !!
I’ll make sure no one does. Thanks for watching! 🍆
You won a suscriber with this video.
Your channel rocks!
Thanks! It's all in my free time but I promise more of the same. I've got some great ideas, like this one set for Spring and Summer 2017
Soon, this video will achieve its 1,000,000th view. Today, I’m glad to have been among its first 26,000-ish views.
soon! well I've got about 40 years left to see if that happens!!
Keep up the good work, your videos are top notch
thanks. will do!
Super informative! I hope we can get an HD version of uprising one day...
One can hope! Thanks for watching and giving a pretty old video a chance! 👼🏻
happy 34th anniversary kid icarus!!!(and 609th birthday bayonetta.:3)
favorite story in a nintendo game,love it's characters(pit & palutena are cinnamon rolls,hades is my favorite nintendo villain,loved viridi/phosphora/medusa and dark pit is a great handled rival character than most modern examples.) and especially how all out it went with promotional material(along with a sequel i'd love to see more anime shorts,an appearance in the nintendo world park and even amiibo of the other characters.:3)
Oh dang! It is today!! I forgot. Shame on me! Thanks for watching and thanks for reminder
I'm new to your videos, and completely blown away by your research and attention to detail. Excellent content you have on your channel!
Thanks! And you caught an early video. Try something newer as I got better. But really check out more and comment on what you like. Happy to chat anytime
@@GTV-Japan I definitely will ! And I got to mention that your video on Yume Kojo/ Doki Doki Panic I watched after this must be one of my all-time favorite documentaries on RUclips! The SMB2 story has been done to death, or so I thought, but Yume Kojo -angle was truly captuvating stuff!
Thanks so much! Yea that was kind of the point. To drive home that there’s 1000 videos that repeat the same info but there’s a giant hole everyone missed
I sure wish they would make a Definitive Port of Kid Icarus Uprising for the Nintendo Switch
That would be nice. Nicer would be a full
Remake of the original!!
I still can’t believe they didn’t make a Kid Icarus for SNES but a Gameboy Sequel. Just saying. This series cannot be left alone like F-Zero.
I’ve seen a 16 bit fan mod of the game long long ago but yea it’s sad. Really for me Nintendo was just the NES and when that was over I was on to TurboDuo and then PlayStation. Too bad because 16 bit Pit would have kept me!
There was a time in which Nintendo had a strange policy of making their IP's first game on the NES, the second for the GB and the third installment for the SNES.
Metroid Is sn example of that.
KIU has become the BEST 3DS game ever IMO. I also own an original copy of the GBC Myths and Monsters, the 3D remix of KI, and the VC versión of the GB. Also the KI saga has an unique game play system not seen in any other game. KIU translated it all almost perfectly into 3D, and then some more for good measure.
But KIU has the best story, graphics, MUSIC and replay value of any 3DS game ever.
Yeah I really liked it. It was a great way to take the original style and update it for 3D.
16 December? One day later and it would have been released on my birthday!
I gave the game a try on Nestopia, and yes, it's very difficult, but it seems like you are more likely to die by falling than by being hit. Also the whole hidden scoring system is indeed interesting, if I ever get deeper into the game I will remember all the tips. A video worth the wait!
It was the 19th, just the video was posted on the 16th.
Shame on me!
+Video Games Perspectives happy birthday!
+Nintendo Era yes but I finished it early and wanted to give it early as a present.
+Video Games Perspectives just imagine and pre internet player without any guide, just picking it up used! Oh so many carts thrown across the room
Like all the fan-favourite Nintendo protagonists, Pit has a special place in my heart. Who else wants to beg - no - command Nintendo to cooperate into creating another Kid Icarus game. Or maybe a full-feature MOVIE (by DreamWorks Animation)!
+Martyn McMurray I'll beg alongside you
OMG YES I WILL HELP YOU!!!
Excellent work! This game is fantastic.
Great video!
Thanks so much! Your music for perfectly in both mood and timing. Sky world stage is one the best BGMs of the 8bit days
Just imagine if Kid Icarus was as popular as Metroid and had the same amount of games that Metroid got. I’m saying this because both games were made on the same engine and shared the same type of jellyfish enemy Metroid/Komaytos. Imagine an alternate universe where Kid Icarus was more popular than Metroid and the Metroid series only got 2 games and eventually a 3rd game. *I WANT TO CHECK OUT THAT ALTERNATE UNIVERSE*
One can dream! It never says Kid Icarus takes place on Earth. Maybe it’s SR 387? I’m glad you found this video. Of all the ones I’ve made (52 so far) this was the most fun I have had actually making a video because I love the game so so much
Pit was planned for Smash 64 but was cut due to time constraints and problems animating his wings, even Fire Emblem’s Marth was supposed to be in 64. While Marth and Roy made it in Melee Pit made it in as a Trophy that specifically reads “Will Pit ever fight again?” As a kid I never bothered to read his Trophy description and was introduced to Pit in Brawl’s Trailers. I was born in 1995 so I didn’t grow up in the NES days. Smash Bros Brawl made Pit relevant again, that should’ve paved the way for more Kid Icarus games like Melee paved the way for Fire Emblem games to be released everywhere and look how great the series is doing and it’s position. It’s just really strange how Kid Icarus and especially F-Zero go into Hibernation only to be awakened for Smash Bros.
Ah I didn’t know that. First I’m like 20 years older so I grew up on Atari, arcade and later Nintendo. By the N64 for guys my age, nintendo was a joke. Carts, b/w game boy and then lost Square soft. My little brother born in 1988, is die hard Nintendo and started in 64. I did get smash for Wii U and it was great to play him. But really I only get into Nintendo again after coming to japan because it’s them and Sony that’s all that’s left and I had money so I just bought everything. Really it wouldn’t be too hard to shop out a game for Pit. But I guess they don’t think it’ll sell? No idea. Also I don’t know how well the 3ds game sold but it requires some adapter for some models of something (?) so that might be the end. I wished they’d add Pit in an eggplant car for Mario Kart but that’s way too crazy haha
For some context, Uprising sold around 1.2 million units. It sold relatively well(actually rather impressively given it had jack in more than 20 years) but under the expectations Nintendo had(somehow. Apparently they expected it to be a Metroid Prime, or something similar of a smash hit. Don't quote me on it though). Chances are they're foreseeing it going the F Zero and Golden Sun route. Those franchises weren't put to sleep just to annoy fans, their respective sales were genuinely decreasing even if their first games did quite well.
when I first saw a hot spring, I thought it was quicksand.
I could see that
2:54 "Collect items like Zelda"... Nintendo Power committed a crime there =P
Great video!
+Voyager G-zero I just couldn't bring myself to say it haha. Thanks for watching
Still if it was good enough to get kids playing this, more power to 'em!
Christopher Sobieniak true! Also I guess metroid can shoot but still can't crawl
I wasn't aware that you lost simply by breaking jars! This might be why i have never got the best ending
+metajex yea, that's really rough because many people would think trying to get the barrel or credit card would help out but it really doesn't. Good luck on the best ending. The upgrade in 2-2 is the hardest to get.
Super late to the party, but this video came out so great!
Thanks!
+preservedcucumbers glad you came!
Lovin your channel ! bingin your stuff right now. Strangely enough I found your channel on one of Guru Larry's video where someone claimed you were promoting your channel in a comment (something about SMB2 and how you moved to Japan), which was weird cuz I didnt see you mention you had a channel. So I clicked on your name, and here we are. I guess that guy was psychic and could predict the future.
Well thanks for finding me! What video was that? I’ve become friends with Larry over time actually and he’s a really decent guy. But I watch all of his stuff so I forgot where I might’ve said that. Regardless yep here we are 🍺
Happy birthday pit
OwO Kid Icarus is and always will be, in my top 5 list of best games ever made
Awesome! Way to see the light!
And to this day, Pit still never learned how to read.
He's just a kid ya know...
@@GTV-Japan lol
@18:16 Ah yes I learned about these in Japanese History class. The imperial regalia,
The 3 Modern Treasures & their successors, from the 1970’s & 1980’s
The 3 Ks (Or Cs) Kura, Kara, & Karu (Cooler/Air Conditioning, Color/ Color TV, and Car.... well Car).
yea its even evolved more into an iphone a 4k TV and something else i cant afford
Gaijillionaire Hmm, I see so it has been upgraded since.
Yep, subscribing, every one of my fav Nintendo characters are mentioned on this channel :)
Wow thanks! Glad to hear it. Tell me something you'd like to see and I'll add it to this of videos for this year
Same
Every upload on this channel is a high quality documentary in its own right. It's really impressive stuff.
Thank you for coming! 👼🏻
I'm a couple years away, but Happy Bithday Pit
+Andrew RC//Andrew it's always worth celebrating a great game
I'm in love with this video.
Glad you came!
Amazing!!
Thanks! Tell all Kid Icarus fans that you know. Also July is the 30 year mark for the American game
If you want an almost guaranteed way to beat the game, buy the barrel/win it in the treasure room before the first boss room. Get the first boss level and grind hearts since enemies respawn. Fill the barrel with the maximum amount of bottles of life. You get the points and you will be carrying eight extra bars of life.
Good strategy! you'll need under 999 hearts in 2-2 or the upgrade is almost impossible so you have to spend the hearts. I like your thinking
I like this game as well and I beat it and got the best ending.
Awesome! It really is fun and rewarding to get thru a tough 8 bit game
Grab an eggplant...LMAO! I loved this game! :)
Me too. Truly misunderstood at the time
Thanks for putting this together. Kid Icarus, although containing few games, is one of my favorite game franchises. Merry Christmas. Hope you get to enjoy some roasted eggplant! 🍆
I live and breathe Pit! Merry Christmas
I thought specknose was a homage to Groucho Marx glasses
haha yea I can see that too.
I think the first 3 years or so that I owned this game I rarely made it to level 1-3 it's amazing that the music and memories of it have made this my favorite of all time...sorry Zelda I love u too
Pit would be proud! 🍆
@@GTV-Japan kid eye car us as I call it was made by the Metroid team can u imagine if the music from both games was swapped....I think it would work out pretty well.....oh yeah happy holidays to you and the family K.
There’s an episode of the Cosby show where Cliff quizzes Theo on his homework and also uses the eye car us pronunciation! His son corrects him. You hav w a good holiday too!!
@@GTV-Japan great now I'm a Huxtable lol..... I always wondered why my grandparents were so tan. Thanks for responding be safe
@@GTV-Japan you might not know what I'm talking about but in the US they made a game called miracle piano do you know if they ever released that for the famicom
wow pit i missed your birthday FeelsBadMan we grew up toghether 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
I didn't know that about the points. I just thought it was a high score type thing. thanks gajillionaire
You're welcome. Only the energy is determined by high score
Those real three sacred treasures sound very interesting to me. Does the Japanese Royal Family have access to those at practically any time?
+E-ManAnimates yes I think so but the location is kept secret
It would be!
Christopher Sobieniak I put a link with more detail about it but they are very important and believed to be kept separate and protected. During WW2 it's been said the emperor Showa said "protect the treasures at all costs "
Imagine if they did a update in kid icaras uprising for 3ds
Boy this video came out on my 13th birthday
Happy birthday 🎈
Gaijillionaire Unfortunately it’s too late now as I was talking about how this video was released on December the 16th
God of poverty? Oohh...you mean a Tax Collecter!
Anyone living off tax money isn’t poor! But yeah I know what you mean. They sure act like god
it's so sad that everyone celebrates LoZ 30th Anniversary but not Kid Icarus 30th Anniversary.... ;-;
+Vicky not Victoria (NekoGatoCat) well, I'm not everybody! Actually I've found every Kid Icarus fan from making this video so now we're all together!
Ye.. your right. At least Kid Icarus fans can celebrate x3
Vicky not Victoria yea! I had this video planned all year! Nothing was stopping me from doing it. Now I'm kind of glad I was the only one
Gaijillionaire We I'm happy you made it too! Gg m8
Vicky not Victoria thanks. I hope you see some other videos as they are maybe up your alley too
30 years for kid icarus and no concert😭.
+Friends Z my friend who made the soundtrack is pretty close to that
GTV ・ Gaijillionaire Really?💕 thats cool!
yea check it in the description and leave a comment on their video saying thanks
2:57 Collect items like Zelda?
I know! And that’s directly from Nintendo! TT
@7:14 why is there a tiny tiny samus in the middle of the image?
You found the secret! I put that in there because Kid Icarus and Metroid are tied at the hip
I love your videos Gajillionare.
Thanks. I’m glad to see you back again
Gaijillionaire I am glad to be back.
Be sure to catch up! I’m almost at episode 100!
Gaijillionaire Nice! That is a honorable milestone :)
I have something special planned for it too. But #100 won’t be until May next year
I would love to see Pit deal with the horrors of X-Parasite from metroid an watch scream in agony as the creature destroys and replaces him and every denizen of his world.
No! Don’t hurt Pit!
This game is really under rated
Heck yes! The under-ratey-est! 🍆
Lol the magazine even called link Zelda thats great
I know. I love that. Of course we know what they meant
happy 35th anniversary kid icarus!!!(& 610th birthday bayonetta.:3)
She’s 610 years old? The more you know! And yeah happy birthday Pit!! 🍆
what is the kid Icarus remix at 1:24.
There's 3 tracks in all. Act one and three is by bob NL. Act two is by dac2k9. I put links in the description. Or search them by channel
2:51 - that's NOT what the actual magazine stated 🤭 Ahaha, "Collect items like Zelda and shooting like Metroid" - that's simply hilarious XDDD
It’s not? I thought I read it verbatim. Oh well 🍆
@@GTV-Japan it's okay though, even funnier that way with all that "my name isn't Zelda/Metroid/Akira etc." meme XDD
I have no idea what that is!
@@GTV-Japan well, there was a time (through the 80's and early 90's) when the main character of the story suddenly got his/her name confused with the story title itself in the fan communities.
Notable examples are:
Link is a hero of The Legend of Zelda, not Zelda;
Samus Aran is a heroine of the Metroid series;
main character of the famous manga/anime AKIRA isn't called Akira.
That's what this meme means.
Who ever did that? Gotta read your manual or engage in the material!
2:55 what magazine was this that showed what magazine volumes showed off the game
Nintendo fun club news
interest also renewed thanks to SSB Melee.
Was it? I just love the series by it self
Gaijillionaire Cool, I like that,
as for SSB Melee, in a way it did, as for a lot of young people in the USA, the Pit Trophy was our first mention of the game Kid Icarus, naturally, they were curious about it, as I was.
it was a good thing in retrospect, as the game was, as you pointed, out was nearly forgotten.
Those who experienced it for the love of the series, the first time around, were eager to share the experience.
I admit, I brought up Melee as that was my first exposure to Kid Icarus, as one of the trophies to win. But I got curious, especially after many others brought up the game.
Eventually I tried it in 2008, it is one of the greatest Nintendo Games made, I regret that I was very young playing Nintendo first hand, and missed out on some games due to ignorance of being young.
Also thanks for the tips, it should make the game allot easier to play.
Hey Ken I can't find a commercial for this game. Any suggestions where
You mean this? ruclips.net/video/1g6xOrK9hCo/видео.html
@@GTV-Japan that's the one. Good man. Keep up the good work. How's things in japan
Thanks 🙏🏻
This was so awesome when it came out! It was better than Metroid!
Hell yes!!!
I just officially and without a save state finished it no damage
Nice!!!!!! That’s not the easiest thing to do
@@GTV-Japan its all your fault. I watched your video on it and got the retro fever. One of my faves and man did i curse the tv out a few times. Even got the best ending
Homer J awesome I hope the advice and strategery helped
@@GTV-Japan sure did buddy. Especially the part about the point systems. Now the wifes cooking me up some eggplant since i started to get a craving for it in the last fortress. Also learned the japenese word for nurse because of the video. See its multipurpose. Now if it can only walk the dog
Hey do u know if their is any functional famicom disc writers for sale. Mines broken amd trying to find a working one.
Is no one going to talk about that one quote from Nintendo power mistaking link for Zelda ?
People have before. It’s weird
at 2:54 it shows nintendo power calling link zelda. im dissapointed
+Seal Entertainment! Ya that's true. If it said "in Zelda" it would make much more sense.
Hey ken how u doing buddy?
Good
I understand from your video the reasoning and logic behind how the points system works but it would be nice if it wasn't so overcomplicated and nonsense. One thing you left out that I wondered if you could answer was why Kid Icarus has mostly been ignored over the years. Shouldn't we have like six or seven games from Nintendo about him by now?
I can’t answer why he’s been ignored. Just that it’s sad. However I think that if they had a little more cartridge space and a little more time to improve the game by adding a level counter or exp on screen it could have helped a lot more.
@@GTV-Japan I agree. This game is kind of iconic among NES owners so I wonder why he was neglected.
Bonus or bonasu sounds a lot like Konasu.
Yes I’d say they rhyme.
This is my sec fav game after zelda 1 im not a big mario fan yes mario has great games ill say that but after the first one i needed a real game to blow my lil kid mind and mario didnt do it for me maybe because as a kid i my fav cartoon was robotech so i wanted a game that didnt treat me as a kid cause this game was so hard and mario wasnt.
Thanks for watching and sharing your memories
@@GTV-Japan no thank you for the time machine. Love the channel wish i found it sooner but you will always get a like from me and im a sub with all alerts on too champ.
Thanks! I can’t wait to get ready for new videos next year
@@GTV-Japan man are you kidding me i been subbing to the big channels and i have to say your the best i wish like i said in the last post i found you sooner. Man you bring me back im trying to teach my kids what a real game feels like not that the new stuff isnt good but its not the same with patches they at a point can change the game for the better but old school is just has that i have no choice but beat it. Parents didnt know how to buy games like we do now. Im a 44 yr old parent of 3 and i know how to buy the right game but as kids parent most times picked trash but jems like icarus and metroids was a mistake from them they see a flashy box (anything ljn not say because avng) they get and most times they suck but we had to do so if you were lucky like me and rented icarus and got to pick a game for the 1 or 2 times a yr you get a game other then xmas you beat the fk (sorry) out of it. So once again thank i want to do what you do with my collection because if you dont see it you help me make memorys with my kids. I owe u 1.
@@GTV-Japan thank you u have no idea what you done for me just with the 30th icarus.
I don't know if this made me want to play it or avoid it at all costs 😂 the whole thing depends on a score that you can't even see!
Yea that’s true. If the game was made a little later there’s be bigger carts with more memory fixing that problem. Thanks for watching 🏹
@@GTV-Japan Great video btw, I learned a lot. I seem to remember Kid Icarus on GCCX too, Arino had a tough time.
@@googleboughtmee yea I remember. It’s brutal all around
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wonder what fans in Japan thought after seeing that Samus is female.
guess being based on somebody having wings of feathers and wax was the reason Pit's wings burned in the Gameboy game's ending. I think everyone thought wtf happened there and now I know why it happened. Not that it makes the ending any better.
I think very few knew that because the only way to know was to get the best ending
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The original Contra was the perfect NES game. Great graphics, you could fire in all directions, AND YOUR BULLETS WENT THE ENTIRE WAY ACROSS THE SCREEN. Contra ruined gaming in that generation for me as I could never understand why your shots in so many other games didn't go very far or why you couldn't fire in all directions.. I actually liked Kid Icarus. .. But hated how you couldn't shoot all the way across the screen. I would submit that simply being able to shoot upward allowed the game to hold an iconic place as hardly any other game let you do that... (I understand that shooting across the screen came as an upgrade sometimes, but that's total BS. The strength of a shot should have been an upgrade - not distance. Ruined a lot of games for me.)
Good points! The short shot is a handicap in the game especially when if you miss, you’re hurting your chances for the best ending later. Thanks for watching as always 🏹