Nintendo Replayed: Kid Icarus

[originally written for overtimecomedy.com on 3/11/08] 

I only played this game a few times. Why? Kid Icarus was on Captain N, so clearly he's an important video game character. So why did I only play a few times? Or right, this game sucks. It's a platformer that goes up instead of left or right. Great. As the screen travels up, if you manage to fall off the bottom, you die, even though Pit has wings and there was definitely a floor down there before. I know, I killed some dudes down there. But ooh, it came with a password pack. Woop dee doo.