Many centuries ago, on the planet Aries, there lived a boy called Alex Kidd. For seven years, he lived on Mt. Eternal studying Shellcore, an ancient art that makes one strong enough to break rocks into pieces. As he was leaving the mountain one day to travel to his spiritual homeland, a dying man told him that the peaceful city of Radactian was in grave danger. Before taking his last breath, the man gave Alex a piece of a map and a medallion made of Sun Stone.
There are eleven locations in which Alex must explore, each of them has its own unique dangers. In each location, Alex can collect bags of coins, which can be used to buy items at the shop and are used to help Alex get through each location (eg: motorcycle, peticopter, power bracelet, etc.) There are also traps that Alex must avoid like the ghost that chases him. He can also collect the Telepathy Ball that will help him read people's minds.
Alex uses his fists to wipe out some of Janken's enemies such as birds, sea horses, bats, monkeys, frogs, and a few others. If his quest to save Radactian from the evil hands of Janken becomes difficult, he can instead use the power bracelet to perform the "Shocking Waves of Destruction", an ancient trick in the art of Shellcore.
Before Alex comes face-to-face with Janken, he should rescue his brother, Egle, from imprisonment, and get the letter and two medallions.
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1. antster1983
22 Apr 2008, 10:09 GMT
Legend! It's finally on the way!
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2. timp29
22 Apr 2008, 13:12 GMT
Interesting... having never played or seen this game before, I dare say if it went head to head with the original super mario bros, from the screenies i can see this game looks far more innovative with flying and vertically scrolling levels. I may very well have to have a crack at it.
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3. Roo
22 Apr 2008, 13:26 GMT
I own this - built into my Master System! For 500 points, it's a good purchase.
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4. brooks83
22 Apr 2008, 14:33 GMT
The only Alex Kidd game I've played is the horrible one on the Mega Drive, so I will have to check this one out
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5. Manicfatty
22 Apr 2008, 15:18 GMT
Very cool. Very, very cool.
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6. arobo21
22 Apr 2008, 15:59 GMT
its a nes game in every way (music and sound effects especially!) except for maybe brighter colors.....what a terrible game.
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7. JD
22 Apr 2008, 16:48 GMT
So many memories!
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8. wAmbAm
22 Apr 2008, 17:28 GMT
Fantastic game. This is a game I played when my neighbours had an Amstrad CPC and man the thing I noticed was that the graphics were fantastic compared to the Amstrad games and it looked much better than the Nes games. The main thing I remember was that the Sega Master system was cheaper than the Nintendo Nes and had the games I grew up with in the Arcades like Shinobi , Golden Axe and Shadow Dancer. Plus it was the first console I ever had the Sega Master System was a top console in its day everyone I knew had one
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9. WiiGamer24 22 Apr 2008, 17:49 GMT
My first game
. Can't wait to finally play this legendary game again.
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10. Genroh
22 Apr 2008, 20:03 GMT
Looks like a lot of fun. I'll definitely give this a try.
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11. HVGN Nerd
22 Apr 2008, 20:06 GMT
this looks like a really good game and im going to get it!
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12. Ircha
23 Apr 2008, 00:58 GMT
This game is special to me.
All my life, ever since I was like 5 years old, I've always been stuck with a faint memory of this game, and it wasn't until just recently I found out what the name of this childhood game was.
I have the best memories from this game when I was at a friend's house, back then, and we played it like all the time. Literally fighting over the controller. ("I wanna play now!") "xD
I'm happy to see it's now being released for the VC.
Thank you Nintendo.
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13. wii-c-kid
23 Apr 2008, 05:56 GMT
Wow. Bad. You always know when a game sucks when they use seahorses as an enemy. Boring, repetitive generic junk. No wonder Alex Kidd never made it. Save your pennies.
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14. angel m. rivera collazo
23 Apr 2008, 14:25 GMT
Excellent game! 5 stars! Although i am a Mario fan.
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15. morphballer
23 Apr 2008, 16:02 GMT
His head looks like a catcher's mit with an eye and a mouth at 2:20!
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16. GamerWho
25 Apr 2008, 09:03 GMT
I have the original cartridge of this, excellent news, great game for its day and still hugely playable!
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