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Kid Icarus
By Powell Angel Dude

Back in 1985, when Nintendo first started making games, they produced many classics. Metroid, Zelda, and Mario Brothers, and of course, Kid Icarus. Kid Icarus was a satory of a small boy on a quest to save a goddess and an entire kingdom from the evil cluthches of Medusa. Though the story isn't that great, evrything else is in this first generation gem.

This game is played very simply. You have three different types of levels. Up-Down levels, Side-Scrolling levels, and Screen-by-Screen levels. Up-Down levels are where you start at the bottom of the level and you must work your way all the way up to the top. Side-Scrolling levels are where you satrt at the Left side of a level and you have to work your way to the right. And Screen-By-Screen is where you enter a room, and instead of the screen scrolling, it stays where it is while you select a door on any side of the screen. No matter what kind of level you're playing in, they are all great.

While you travel on these levels, you will encounter doors that will take you to 4 different kinds of bonus rooms. These rooms include fighting bonuses, jar bonuses, endurance training, and shops. Fighting bonuses are rooms where you fight enemies that give you ten hearts a piece. Jar bonuses are rooms where jars are scattered throughout the room and you break as amny as you want. But if you break the wrong jar you are sent out of the room and you lose 25 hearts. Endurance Training is where thing fly at you, and if you can live through it, you get a special object. Last but not least, are shops. I don't think I have to explain what a shop is, but for those of you out there who have never played Nintendo before, here it goes. A shop is where you exchange money, or in this case, hearts, for goods. There, is that good?

Your weapon is a trusty bow and arrow. As you go along you meet people who will upgrade your arrow and allow you to shoot farther. You can also pick up axes, which allow you to break statues in the temples. But you can use them to hurt enemies as well.

All in all, this is a great game. As a first generation game the control is excellent, the music is catchy and nice, and the graphics are very well detailed. Nintendo did a very well job pulling off a unique and certainly classic game.

My Score: 8/10

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