I used to come home from middle school and play this game every day. Got to the point where I could speed run through the whole game 4 times before dinner. I miss those early days of gaming.
Reminds me of the Indiana Jones episode, when he whipped a lamp and broke it. Although the camera shake here looks like it was added in editing, seeing as there is 0 motion blur, and only shakes left and right. So it may have been scripted.
@@trixylizard6970 Do you enjoy when people speak to you sassy or sarcastically? If not, just think if you would enjoy being talked to that way. Not if you would tolerate being spoken to that way, but would you ENJOY being spoken to like that.
I was expecting it to be a lot more brutal to the game. It is NOT an easy game, especially when you start. Definitely one of my favorites on the NES though.
Crazy I've been watching AVGN for almost 20 years now! I hope this show goes on for another 20!! ILL NEVER GET SICK OF WATCHING JAMES PLAY 8/16 BIT GAMES!!!
Always makes my day better when I see the AVGN uploads. Man I remember secretly watching you with my friends when I was 8 fearful my parents might hear it ahahahaha, I’m now 28 married and have a son.
This is one of my favorite games on the nes it’s such a classic. These days the series itself deserves so much better, it died, was revived in a glorious fashion, and then died again
The arrow hitting the camera was hilarious and the fact that you can't tell if that was scripted or an honest reaction that he just played off makes it even funnier
Kid Icarus' music was absolutely LEGENDARY. The main theme was actually an incredibly gorgeous creation. The game was hard as HELL (lol), but beating it was awesome, and for whatever reason, the fact that the final level was *easy* ... was actually a great reward for fighting through the previous difficulty of everything else.
I never really had too much trouble except for the 3rd dungeon level where I was locked in an almost endless loop of getting turned into an eggplant and going to the hospital. VERY frustrating because it'd usually be the last room right before the boss fight that I'd get turned
34 here. Love James. Love AVGN. I’m truly happy that he’s still doing it after all these years. A world without the Angry Video Game Nerd wouldn’t be a world I’d want to live in.
45 years old here , wife , 2 daughters . when returning from a stressful day from work , playing something retro listening to the nerd "seasons videos" is therapy for me.
Dang, I haven't watched the Nerd in a long, long while, and this episode really brought it all back for me. Really felt like classic AVGN. Thank you for nearly 20 years of fun, James.
You know... After a serious day of Depression and stress from work, feeling like I just want to give up on everything... Seeing Nerd in the ridiculous Kid Icarus costume made me immediately forget all those problems and smile. Thank you so much James and all the crew that helped make this episode possible.
I know Nintendo don’t really know what to do with the Kid Icarus series, but I think it’d be cool if they turned it into a roguelike series - whether it’s like Hades or Dead Cells, I just think it’d be cool to see Nintendo tackle a roguelike.
Kid Icarus needs to make a comeback. I’ve been hoping Uprising comes to switch then a new game bc that really gave Pit and Palutena the love they needed
@@geo4290 you can only play for small bursts because of the hand cramps.... and the ground controls are pretty bad since it's not the same type of gameplay still an amazing game that deserves a port
I love James' demeanor. Even when he is in character as the nerd you can just tell the guy is humble and gentle. His whole demeanor is wholesome all-around. He must have been raised by great parents.
Kid Icarus amazes me how obscured it became for some and afterwards it got an unexpected sequel kid Icarus uprising and that just blew up the series with how great it was. Course we haven't got a new one since but the characters have stuck around in the smash bros series.
Love the Ending so much! Kid Icarus was a fun game and just nice to see it get the respect it needed from AVGN. I’ll always look to the sky at night to see Pit in the Stars.
i like how all the characters just beef over a telepathic discord call during the gameplay. It’s a fun way to deliver story without stopping for a cutscene every 5 seconds. Honestly i’d like it if more games took that approach
@@norapper6182before we used to go to gametrailers to watch his videos, he then later started to post those videos on youtube, and now it's only RU-vid because gametrailers closed
I think Kid Icarus big problem was it was meant to be part of a great trio but unlike the other 2 Nintendo never really gave it a legacy. Perhaps if they did release more games it'd be one of Nintendos legendary franchises rather then a small but respected one
I wonder what that would've been like. I can almost guarantee we wouldn't have Uprising, though, not if we're to believe butterfly theory and all that.
The music from Kid Icarus takes me right back to 1987. I had just moved to the US and a friend was showing me games on this thing called a "Nintendo" that we didn't really have in the UK because it was unpopular there. I saved up my earnings and shortly afterwards I bought my very own Nintendo, borrowing lots of games from that friend. There's an unexplainable wistfulness that tune evokes in me.
I grew up with a combination of PC, NES/SNES games in the UK (too young for the ZX Spectrum/BBC Micro) and always find it weird hearing that, but when I look back I realise almost everyone else had a MasterSystem or Megadrive.
I wasn't born in the 80's or 90's, so I mostly learn about old games through people like James and others on the internet. However, I remember beating Kid Icarus on the NES classic and having a lot of fun, although I do agree that it is a challenge.
There are high schoolers who weren’t even alive when I began watching the Nerd! Thank you James, for hours and hours of laughter! Your videos have helped me get through some very tough struggles these last 15+ years!
Loved this game. It's always been one of the bigger Nintendo titles despite only been a single game on the home consoles. Brutally difficult, yes, but a really fun game through and through.
Brings back memories where my friends and I had each had one of the Titan games. I had Metroid, our cool friend had Zelda, and the poor guy who had Icarus ended up taking one for the team.
13:51 cracked me up so much. XD Just the way he got side-tracked from his entire rant by the little prop torch making noise, as well as the absolute INTENSITY of him staring and yelling at it. Also, never even heard of those more messed up mythological stories about Orion's birth or the Egyptian gods jacking onto each other until now... I actually learned something new from an AVGN video.... huh.
This one is so hilarious, James! I was already laughing almost constantly, and but I had to pause the video during the Nerd Farms bit because I was laughing so hard! Seeing those glowing purple things from Metroid growing on vines was too much!
Kid Icarus may have had aspects that aged poorly, but I still think it is a great classic game and one of the most underappreciated games on the NES. Thankfully Kid Icarus Uprising on the 3DS was an amazing follow up.
@@guilhermehank4938 curiously enough said Gameboy game of kid Icarus wasn't released in Japan until just a few years ago. Originally it was a Western only title. What's more baffling is that the artwork in the instruction booklet was in a manga style.
Well not every great hero started their journey so gracefully. Kid Icarus Uprising in my opinion is one of Nintendo’s greatest works. I wonder how James would react to playing that after this?
One of my go to videos whenever I need something to fill a void is AVGN videos. I always seem to find something to help me relax or smile and entertain me. To see that there are still new videos being made is really, really awesome. I hope we still have years and years of nerd!
