Game title
Kid Icarus
Japan 1986-12-19 / action game /Nintendo
- #200Japanese release order (of 1239 titles)
- #34Copies sold (of 87 titles)
- #95Famitsu score (of 367 titles)
- #36How much it is read now (of 942 titles)
- 1986Release year
About this game title
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- Japanese title
- Kid Icarus
- Japan release date
- 1986-12-19
- North America release date
- 1987-07-01
- Europe release date
- 1987-02-15
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Nintendo / Tose Co.（Nintendo R&D1）
- Genre
- action game
- Formats
- FC / FDS / NES
Copies sold
1,760,000 copies
Officially playable today
Officially available
Products sold (1)
Even for the same game title, packs, bundles and budget re-releases count as separate products. Only those listed in the public record (Media Arts Database) are shown.
- Kid Icarus
- Model no. FMC-PTM / 2,600 yen / 1986-12-19
More details
Only the details we could confirm are shown.
- Series
- Kid Icarus series
- Music
- Hirokazu Tanaka
- Art
- Toru Osawa / Hirofumi Matsuoka / Makoto Kano
- programming
- BAN BAN / YOSHIKAWA / TOGAWA
- production
- Gunpei Yokoi
- Scenario
- Toru Osawa
- Direction
- Satoru Okada
- Medium
- Digital download
- North America age rating
- E
Where it stands today
How much this title is read and edited today. Wikipedia page views and edit history, counted on 2026-8-30.
Readers of the Japanese article
about 1,181 views per month
Readers of the overseas article
about 6,179 views per month
Edits in the past 1 year
12 times
Still officially playable
Officially available
Current records (6 of 13)
The fastest completions of this title, as of 2026-8-30, and still being updated (the newest record is from 2024-09-26). These records are the work of the runners and authors. Their names and sources are given.
Stories left about this title
There are 27.Press a card to read the story.
Titles released the same day (2)
Other titles released in Japan on 1986-12-19.
Explore from here
Links to pages related to this title.
Source: created by adapting the "Media Arts Database" (https://mediaarts-db.artmuseums.go.jp/) of the National Center for Art Research, National Museum of Art
Sources: Japanese and English Wikipedia, Wikidata
Sources: TASVideos (https://tasvideos.org/), speedrun.com (https://www.speedrun.com/)