![]() This game is an auto-scroller so when you fly left or right, you are actually just speeding up or slowing down. The goal of the game is to destroy a spaceship that appears in the final mission. It may not sound like a big deal, but trust me, it’s quite a lot for a game like this. There’s no story here, just fly your plane through the standard missions as they are called out on the screen. The names are short for Red Baron and Blue Max. You play the role of Baron and the second player is called Max. Sky Kid is a horizontal scrolling shoot-em-up. Both the arcade version and NES versions were released on all versions of the Virtual Console. The NES port came out later in September 1987 and was published by Sunsoft. The original version of the game was ported to the Famicom in August 1986. It was quickly followed by a sequel, Sky Kid Deluxe, in February 1986, featuring expanded missions, enemies, music, and other features. Sky Kid was first released in the arcades in Japan in December 1985. Just how many missions does this game have? I won’t keep you waiting too long for the answer. Sure, the missions get more challenging as you go, but Sky Kid just keeps going and going. Underneath the pretty exterior, however, is something far more devious than I would have imagined. Here we have a cutesy shoot-em-up game with little airplanes, tanks, and loop-de-loops. Sky Kid was the kind of surprise that blindsided me a little bit. Most of them are good, and I’d like to think I have hit a nice string of positive surprises. This project is constantly full of surprises. What I Did: Reached the halfway point of the second loop To Beat: Defeat the spaceship to see the ending ![]()
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