The 5 Nintendo franchises we want to see revived
Nintendo is having quite the year so far. With The Super Mario Bros. Movie quickly becoming one of the highest-grossing console adaptations of all-time, the spotlight is back on the company that brought you well-known legacy franchises like Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, and of course, the aforementioned brothers Mario.
For every Samus Aran, however, there’s a Pitt. Who’s Pitt? You probably know him (and his bow and arrow) from the Super Smash Bros. franchise as a real cute kid, but he made his debut in the ultra popular classic Kid Icarus, one of Nintendo’s gems that unfortunately petered out.
The truth is that Kid Icarus is one of quite a few Nintendo franchises that didn’t get the Zelda treatment with a new iteration every four years or so. Some of the games on this list do have a sequel, but there hasn’t been a new entry in over a decade or around that time. Let’s take a look at some missed opportunities for the video game company.
Like a lot of Nintendo characters, Pitt – from the game of the same name – appears in Super Smash Bros., but he made his first appearance in 1986 with the first iteration of the popular platformer/shooter hybrid. There are three games in the series with the latest one, Kid Icarus: Uprising, released in 2012.
The Kid Icarus story revolves around Greek mythology in a place called “Angel Land.” He can fly a little, has a bow and arrow and a few other attacks and he faces off against characters like Hades, Magnus, Dark Pit, Medusa, Pyrrhon, Pandora, Arlon and Poseidon.
A sequel came out in 1991 called Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters on the original Nintendo Game Boy. Like the game that came before it, it was a 2D side-scrolling platformer. In 2012, we got the excellent Kid Icarus: Uprising, which
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