I Also Want to Irresponsibly Report on Kid Icarus Wii
Here’s the timeline:
1989?Nintendo releases Kid Icarus, which is awesome.
1990-2007?Nothing.
2008, Yesterday?IGN’s Matt Casamassina says he’s “really looking forward to Kid Icarus Wii” on an IGN podcast.
So it’s one of two things: 1) Casamassina knows the game is coming out and accidentally forgot it hadn’t been announced yet, or 2) like every other gamer on the planet, Casamassina assumes Kid Icarus is coming out for the Wii, because Pit was in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and why the hell would he be included if he wasn’t going to appear in a new game, and also Kid Icarus would be perfect for the Wii with all of its arrow firing, and mostly because we all want it so bad.
I’m not sure which is the truth, but I’ve decided to post this story assuming it is happening, so if it isn’t, maybe Nintendo feels stupid and decides to make it anyway. I’m not sure why I’m so excited, actually; although I loved the game as a kid, I downloaded it on the Virtual Console and I could not suck more at it.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.