How was Kid Icarus created? 

NOTE: Just in case it wasn't as clear as I'd like it to be - CRUNCH IS BAD. Developers shouldn't feel like they have to work all day and night to get a good final result. Ok? Ok!

So kid icarus is technically an indie game for the Nes

Thomas' refusal to say eggplant kills me

"Anyone can make games" THAT DOES NOT MEAN HE HAS TO MAKE THEM HIMSELF!

I wasn't aware that the "taste of an RPG" was eggplant flavored.

Kid Icarus is awesome it really needs a new game.

So this is how the strange, beautiful phenomenon of Kid Icarus came to be.

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST NINTENDO HISTORY CHANNELS EVER MADE. MAKE SURE THOMAS GETS 1 MILLION SUBS!

I can't wait to the watch the next one. Uprising is one of my favorites. Pittoo is one of my favorite characters

Employer: "You'll be making this game!" Employee: "Yay!" Employer: "Oh yeah, I almost forgot, no one will be helping you." Employee: "wut?"

I love Kid Icarus to the point where I have an Uprising poster above my bed Also i live in the USA so.. he's called Eggplant Wizard here :)

I'm looking forward to the episode on Uprising. It's one of my favorite games, so I'm excited to learn more of how it came to be.

Been binge watching your videos over the last few days and now you’re on FOURTY THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS WHAT CONGRATULATIONS MY DUDE

Kid Icarus is a series that was dead, then was revived, and is now dead again

I really enjoy your videos, they make me feel at home, relaxed. And I'm being informed! Thank you kind sir!

So Kid Icarus was made by one guy, but then later some other guys too. There was apparently *_a lot_* of work to be done especially near the end. Quite a misleading title, in my opinion.

So what I've learned from here is 1- I should attempt to make a game by myself for the first time and 2- I should think bonus as eggplant stick?

There’s probably a great number of people who know this game and character primarily from Captain N: The Game Master.

What a great way to start my morning with some calming video game history :')

Oh boy, Kid Icarus! My only experience with this game has been the 3D Classics version on 3DS! And...it's no lie that it's a hard game! I've had it for many years and I have yet to go beyond the first level! I don't know when or if I'll ever manage to finish it, but I can admit it's a very well made game!

Great video and all, but jaysus, development for this game sounds like it was a nightmare! It's really concerning how intense and demanding the work culture for this stuff can get sometimes.

This guy has gained an insane amount of subs in a few days congratulations dude! You deserve millions of subs

The local video store had a rental section of video games & I would rent this on some weekends in the hopes of beating it. Long hours but always fun & I have great memoirs of my friends & I trying to beat this game. ✅🎮

Excelent work as always, my boy. An interesting story with grade A editing. Cheers!

Your videos are always so relaxing

Great work! Looking forward to part 2. :)))

Oh my God that's a great introduction! Congratulations! I am so unbelievably through with long ass obvious ass introductions to videos and you just went right into it!

Eggplant Wizard along with Kid Icarus both ended up as characters in Captain N, along with Mother Brain from Metroid who was Eggplant Wizards boss, seems sort of Fascinating in the fictional video game universe those characters were connected when their series had such a close history as well

I've had the kid Icarus mußic stuck in my head since 88

Another great video setting up a slam dunk for the Kid Icarus Uprising sequel. Can't wait for next week.

Awesome videos. Keep up the great work

Vertical, platforming *bullet hell*

I'm so excited for the Uprising video! I'm a huge fan. I have literally every single US/Australia AR cards (AKDE). There were over 400 cards released. A handful of them were never produced so, I made physical working replicas of the unreleased cards. Let me know if you need any assets for your video. I feel that the AR features were so innovative. I have some knowledge about UK and Japan cards as well. I hope you give AR some love in your next video.

My only issue with the video is absolutely no mention of Super Smash Bros Brawl.

Wait?? Kid icarus is difficult?! I never had a problem with it.. The only thing that is kinda annoying are the eggplant wizzards

Having only played the 3D Classic version of Kid Icarus...It was fun.....If not BRUTAL!

Fucking props to this guy - his insane work had a huge imprint on my childhood :)))

wow truly impressive especially that he did that with such primitive equipement reminds me of iron man building that suit in a cave except even he had help

This video is taking longer to load than a game I was downloading on my switch

How does he not have like at least 500 k subs

He didn't make it himself, he had a development team..

So on pt. Also self sufficient for the most part. Pretty much legendary...

0:30 dont forget that prior to the gameboy follow up, back in 1989; kid icarus had a prominent role on the captain N series, almost immediately recognizing him as one of the core nintendo characters.

I am a simple woman. I see KI, I click.

Wait, you even use JAR media music as well as their intro.

I used to own this game in my collection of NES games. It wasn't easy to play but was definitely one of my favourites 😊

happy 34th anniversary kid icarus!!!(love pit and palutena so much,they're my favorite nintendo characters along with kirby & luigi/princess daisy that i'm always happy to see more of.:3)

Well this makes me realized the meaning of the joke of Viridi’s line in The Chaos Vortex

I love this series so much.

People: Kid Icarus Culture People: Caddicarus

Playing this game when it came out was magical.

Maybe the game is so hard cos he got so good at it from playtesting it. Happens all the time with Super Mario Maker 2 levels. You don't truly know how hard a level is until you have someone ELSE play it.

I'm willing to bet that out of everyone that has played the original at least once, only one percent have beaten the first level on their own without cheating devices or savestates.

I'd love to hear about Yoshi's Island in this much depth. THere's a lot about the art style but I'd love to know more about the enemies and other deeper details

Dude I'm so grateful for Osawa, if it weren't for him I wouldn't have the happiness I have due to such a glorious series that I favor to an extreme extent lmao.

2:46 ‘Greek-style’ *shows the Colosseum*

The gameboy sequel was one of my first Gameboy games. I remember the eggplant wizard was a pain, but i did manage to beat it

No wonder there were so many broken and glitched games back then. It seems that they didn't tested the games a lot, so that some games came out unfairly hard. Nevertheless, those developing teams were amazing.

The first, and one of the only NES games i beat. The eggplant wizards maze was so frustrating.

My first game besides mario (it came with my system). Back in the 80s when I received it, this game was HARD. I couldn't get past stage 1-2 (I kid you not). An older kid convinced me to go to his house because he said he could beat it. (It was the 80s, quite normal to go into kids homes you didn't really know). He beat the game and after that I basically would mimic what he did and I was able to beat the game. Even today, so many years later, I can still beat the game while my kids find it too hard!!!

So.... Sakurai has nothing to do with the first and second Kid Icarus bois? Then, his only son is Kirby (Which he left alone in the world of evil) and Pit is adopted?

Aw man I feel this dude. I had to make an entire game on my own which was supposed to be done in teams

I had a copy of this game and did not manage to get very far. It was pretty difficult but found it entertaining

This came out on my birthday.

This video has a one year anniversary!

Have the game boy version and I’m it is hard but I love how fun and challenging it is

I've never heard the word aubergine before this video. Thanks for teaching me a new word lol

Now this is the OG indie dev

Good video

I had kid Icarus when I was a kid and I beat it. It was hard but then again all the games back then were hard. The game is very valuable now. I wished I would have kept it.

Kid Icarus was a hard game, at least in the beginning. The game usually got a lot easier once you managed to beat a few stages. Remember, this was not only created in a time crunch but also this was done back before there was a lot of refinement to game creation. This was before the studies of good/bad game design, or the idea of increasing difficulty as you progress in a game. Still, it did have a sort of charm to it. I play it on the switch virtual console even today

Also, the programming would have been much more labor-intensive than what's depicted in the video. The code would have looked like the cinematics in Kabuki Quantum Fighter, or the margins of Arnold's first-person perspective in The Terminator. It's somewhat like using hand tools rather than power tools.

So that’s why Sakurai put pit, dark pit, and palutina in smash... STILL DOSENT EXPLAIN THE FIRE EMBLOS THO

The Aubergine story is interesting. The specknose thing, I suppose Personnel was more lax back then. 🙂

I first played this in 1988. I last played it this year. I haven't beaten stage 1 since 1988.

This game is soooo underrated

I heard it has a sequel called metroid just like how perfect dark is the sequal to golden eye

bless this guy, he is a hero

Someone needs a new "source code" animation... ;P

2:48 "Serious Greek-style" *Proceeds to show an image of the "Colosseum" at Rome, Emblem of the imperial roman age* Jokes aside, great video!

My favorite game ever.

1:14 that finger os pulling his hair.

5:52 Not to be pedantic, but it's "Satou's Kirimochi". While 砂糖 (satou) means "sugar", the origin of サトウ (also satou) in the name of the product is in 佐藤食品工業 (Satou Food Factory) that takes its name from founder's surname.

Ironically, it was Hirokazu "Specnose" Tanaka who wrote the music for Kid Icarus (and Metroid).

Kid Icarus is one of the best Nes game ever.

happy 35th anniversary kid icarus!!!(& happy 610 birthday bayonetta.:3)

The Nintendo staff sounds like they are fun to hangout with

At least he got paid. I played fan made 16 bit remake Super Kid Icarus and its quite good.

Thank goodness Nintendo has changed and stopped crunching their employees, I feel bad for him having to work on it absolutely alone

The nose glasses are actually based around the famous comedy actor Groucho Marx, fun fact.

In the 8 bit era it was actually normal for programmers to work in really small teams of 2 or 3 and even alone.

"Extreme difficulty"???? I'm so confused. I generally sucked at video games back then. Kid Icarus was a rare game I actually could complete.

When I think I heard it al about gaming you hit me with news I didn’t know about on this just like you did your cup head video I’m like oh I know the story and out of nowhere I’m like oh ish I never knew this about the brothers

Why is there I C programming code I. The background? I am pretty sure it was developed purely in asm.

No piano ending? :(

3:10 I swear I heard boner season and thought “my god what is he doing?”

I'm a simple man. I see NES content, I click.

what about gunpei yokoi?

2:11 As a developer, I find it endearing that Thomas uses the same bit of C code animated scrolling across the screen in every one of his videos where he wants an animation of code. I mean sure he could vary it up for those of us who will notice, but honestly it's not really that big of a deal. So anyways I got curious what this group_info struct was all about, so I searched the first line and found it to be nearly identical to this (10 year old) file from the Linux kernel source: github.com/atomic-penguin/linux/blob/master/kernel/groups.c Note that an important initialization line is missing from the code displayed in the video. And, after a cursory overview of header files referenced by the source file, I was as of yet unable to find the declaration of group_info without digging for longer than I'd care to. :-( I'd be curious to hear from Thomas about why he ended up selecting this specific code sample.

*_Too bad for you~_* 💚