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Kid Icarus

1986 video game
VideoGame video_game Q1142493
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Summary

Kid Icarus is a video game[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of video game entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,117 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: Satoru Okada[3]
  • Composer: Hirokazu Tanaka[4]
  • Publisher: Nintendo[5]
  • Genre: action game[6]
  • Producer: Gunpei Yokoi[7]
  • Developer: Nintendo Research & Development 1[8]
  • Part of the series: Kid Icarus[9]
  • Designed by: Yoshio Sakamoto[10]
  • Platform: Game Boy Advance[11], Nintendo Entertainment System[12], Nintendo 3DS[13], Famicom Disk System[14]
  • Game mode: single-player video game[15]
  • Distribution format: digital download[16]
  • Review score: 95%[17]
  • Input device: gamepad[18]
  • Country of origin: Japan[19]
  • Publication date: December 19, 1986[20], February 15, 1988[21], February 15, 1987[22], July 1987[23]
  • Distributed by: Nintendo eShop[24]
  • ESRB rating: Everyone[25]
  • CERO rating: A (All ages)[26]
  • PEGI rating: PEGI 7[27]
  • USK rating: USK 0[28]
  • Title: 光神話 パルテナの鏡[29]
  • Set in period: ancient history[30]
  • P14470: Games/Kid_Icarus[31]

Why It Matters

Kid Icarus has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Related Entities

Famicom Disk System gamepad Japan Nintendo Nintendo Research & Development 1 Yoshio Sakamoto

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Gen4. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . en.wikipedia.org. en.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 54m ago · Tom Morris · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 21
    Nindb game id → nes/kid-icarus
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'is', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Nindb game id: nes/kid-icarus, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/94349717|Kid Icarus (#94349717)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/3618|NinDB game]] #mi"
  2. 19d ago · Mule hollandaise · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Review score → 95%
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Review score: 95%, uploading review scores from gen4; thanks Catel69 for the parsing in the first place! ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/ac96494e159|details]])"
  3. 9w ago · Matthias M. · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Usk id → 17839
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Usk id: 17839, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/142827308|Kid Icarus (#142827308)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5476|USK]] #mix'n'match"
  4. 12w ago · J 1982 · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Games/Kid_Icarus
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14470: Games/Kid_Icarus"
  5. 17w ago · J 1982 · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Publication date → +1986-12-19T00:00:00Z, +1988-02-15T00:00:00Z, +1987-02-15T00:00:00Z +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Imdb id: tt0145868"
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