KID ICARUS CULT

Dedicated to Gumpei Yokoi

This web is dedicated to "Kid Icarus". Specially "Kid Icarus: Angel Land Story", and the sequel in which I've been working for more that 3 years: "Kid Icarus: Erico" .

Kid Icarus was released in Japan, but not in cartridge format, but in 3" floppy disk fot Famicom Disk System. The 20th aniversary will be on 18th December of this year (2006). In Europe and USA, we had to wait more than half a year, when a cartridge version for NES was released.

Even though cartridge is more robust and reliable, and also more easilt found than disk version, this one lets you save game, and appart from this, it is in Japanese, inventory apparence changes a little bit, and so does Pit's voice (when he gets hit).

I started to play with a Spectrum, when I was 5 years old. And then, I went through the Atari 2600, NES, Master System, SNES, Megadrive, 32X, Saturn, Playstation, Dreamcast, Playstation 2, Xbox, Gamecube, Gameboy Advance, DS, and about 7 years of PC gaming, trough a rich variety of genrers (strategy, arcade, simulation, fighting,...). NES Kid Icarus is still one of my favourites games, and one of the best I've ever played.

In 1991, a sequel for GameBoy was released. It tried to keep the original flavor, adding some new things. But, for, me, it did not manage to outperform Angel Land Story, not even reaching its high level of "greatful". It did not innovate much, and the desing and development seems to be not as much worked as the previous NES game was. Anyway, I recomend it to any platforms game fan, because it still is a very good and adictive game. I'm not saying that it is bad. I just saying that NES Kid Icarus is not good, it's god :-)

But my prefeccionism was one of my big flaws. So, wishing to see a sequel in GameBoy Advance, and after realizing that Nintendo seemed not interested on it, I decided to try out, and make it myself. Unfortunatelly, my knowledge at that time limited me to make a Windows based game for PC, using Delphi and DirectX. If I started today, I would have made it for Gameboy Advance, or probably, DS. But so much effort was done, and so much things I sacrified for the game, so, it's late to go back. I rather finishing it. Soon, I'll release a beta version, with first 2 worlds near to completition.

Kid Icarus is a Nintendo's game, with 1986 copyright, and I'm not trying to make mine any original idea, or get any economical benefit out of it. It's a fan project, for fan people.

KID ICARUS: ANGEL LAND STORY (NES) 1986

Original one. It's god :-)

Thank you Nintendo, Gumpei Yokoi, and the Kid Icarus team.

KID ICARUS: OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS (GB) 1991

The sequel of "Angel Land". not as god as the first game... what a pitty.

Anyway, another great tittle for a great console. Thanks Gumpei Yokoi for the most successful handheld console ever.

KID ICARUS: ERICO (PC/Windows) 2006

This game is freeware.Kid Icarus is an original idea of Nintendo. I dedicate this project, and all my effort, and the hard times,to Gumpei Yokoi, a man that did many good thing for the videogames. A genious. Rest in peace.

In the begining, this project was very ambicious. But the lack of time and resources, and all things I had to sacrified, to keep this dream real, I finally had to lower my expectations, or else I won't be able to finish it. I don't want to say that the game is bad, or that I'm not proud of it, just that I wanted it to be great. Profesional. something that Nintendo would love. But I had to work alone for more than 2 years, and I had lots of personal problems, along with my Informatics and Electronics Engineering, so, even that I did not want to, I had to simplify levels design, enemies, graphics, maps, as well as the overall game scheme. I wish I would had the chance to make a real sequel to Kid Icarus!

Thanks to the help I got this year from Tolrak and Ikael, that did the graphics, so I could concentrate my effort on the programming area, us, the "Kid Icarus: Erico" team, are proud to present and share with you this game. We really wish that you enjoy it. And please, send us any critic.

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