History VideoGame / AlexKidd

* ''Alex Kidd in Miracle World'' - MasterSystem (1986)

''Alex Kidd'' was {{Sega}}'s former mascot, before SonicTheHedgehog was created. He starred in six games, all of them created between 1986 and 1990, and has had several [[TheCameo cameo appearances]] since then.

* ''Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle'' - SegaGenesis (1989)

Most of the other games deviate from this storyline and [[GameplayRoulette feature different gameplay styles]]. Alex quietly faded away after the release of the original ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog]]'', but he has had appearances in a few other games, including ''VideoGame/{{Segagaga}}'', ''[[SegaSuperstars Sega Superstars Tennis]]'', and ''[[SegaSuperstars Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing]]''. He should not be confused with indie game character Alex K''y''dd.

* FranchiseKiller: While ''Enchanted Castle'' was moderately successful in Japan, its terrible reception in the US and Europe helped kill off the series. In a bizarre twist of fate, most of the development team on ''Enchanted Castle'' would go on to create Alex Kidd's successor as Sega mascot, SonicTheHedgehog.

* NoExportForYou: ''BMX Trial'' was only released in Japan, and in an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], ''Shinobi World'' was ''not'' released in Japan despite being developed by Sega's Japanese branch.

* ''Alex Kidd BMX Trial'' - Sega Master System (1987, only in Japan)

* ''Alex Kidd in Miracle World'' - SegaMasterSystem (1986)
* ''Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars'' - [[ArcadeGame Arcade]] (1986) and Sega Master System (1989)
* ''Alex Kidd BMX Trial'' - Sega Master System (1987, [[NoExportForYou only in Japan]])
* ''Alex Kidd: High-Tech World'' - Sega Master System (1989)

* ''Alex Kidd in VideoGame/{{Shinobi}} World'' - Sega Master System (1990)

* EnforcedPlug: At the end of ''Alex Kidd In High Tech World''

* GuideDangIt: ''Alex Kidd In High Tech World'' has a section to where Alex needs to bypass a guard in village to continue his quest. All the apparent solutions turn out to be {{Red Herring}}s, the actual solutions involve [[TrialAndErrorGameplay talking to the right people at the right in-game time]], or praying ''[[OneHundredAndEight 108]]'' times in front of a shrine. Doing anything else will result in either running out of in-game time or getting arrested. Given that the game was originally based on an anime, it's somewhat plausible that a Japanese player could figure it out, but it is extremely unlikely that a Western player could intuit either solution thanks to the change in setting that strips all context that could hint toward this.

* CharlesAtlusSuperPower: Alex has trained in the "Shellcore" technique enabling him to alter the size and toughness of his fists through sheer willpower and enables him to shatter rocks with his bare fists.

* GuideDangIt: ''Alex Kidd In High Tech World'' has a section to where Alex needs to bypass a guard in village to continue his quest. All the apparent solutions turns out to be {{Red Herring}}s, the actual solution is to pray ''[[OneHundredAndEight 108]]'' times in front of a shrine. Doing anything else will result in either running out of in-game time or getting arrested. Given that the game was originally based on an anime, it's somewhat plausible that a Japanese player could figure it out, but it is extremely unlikely that a Western player could intuit this solution thanks to the change in setting that strips all context that could hint toward this.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: On ''Miracle World'', Alex's brother is named "Egle" in the manual, and "Igul" in the ending to the game itself. Taking the spelling of one and the pronunciation of the other, presumably he would have been named "Eagle".

Most of the other games deviate from this storyline and [[GameplayRoulette feature different gameplay styles]]. Alex quietly faded away after the release of the original ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog]]'', but he has had appearances in a few other games, including ''VideoGame/{{Segagaga}}'', ''[[SegaSuperstars Sega Superstars Tennis]]'', and ''[[SegaSuperstars Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing]]''.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: On ''Miracle World'', Alex's brother is named "Egle" in the manual, and "Igul" in the ending to the game itself. Taking the pronunciation of one and the spelling of the other, presumably he would have been named "Eagle".

** Alex's dad gets it even worse off; In the manual his name is King Thunder, The endgame scrolltext messes this up into "king Sander", and ''Enchanted Castle'' just gives up and names him "King Thor".

Alex's dad gets it even worse off; In the manual his name is King Thunder, The endgame scrolltext messes this up into "king Sander", and ''Enchanted Castle'' just gives up and names him "King Thor".

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: In ''Miracle World'', the leftmost button (Button 1) is for jumping and the rightmost button (Button 2) is for attacking, rather than the other way around like most other platformers. The game's creator, [[WordOfGod Ossale Kohta]], admits in an [[http://sega.jp/archive/album/04_alex/03.html interview]] that he wanted to distinguish his game from ''SuperMarioBros'' by making the controls a bit different.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the Japanese version of ''Enchanted Castle'', the loser of a RockPaperScissors match would be [[DefeatByModesty stripped of their clothes]] (with appropriate censorship). For the international versions, this was changed to the loser [[AnvilOnHead getting crushed by a giant weight]].

** ''High-Tech World'' is far more guilty in this department. Notably, at one point Alex happens across a fast food stands which sells "humbugers."

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The translation in ''Miracle World'' isn't as bad as many other games from the same period, but it's still not very good. The dialogue is rather awkwardly translated, and certain words and phrases are put in "quotation marks" for no readily apparent reason.

* GameplayRoulette: Out of the games in the series, only ''Miracle World'' and ''Enchanted Castle'' are anything like each other.

* NoExportForYou: ''BMX Trial'' was only released in Japan, and in an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], ''Shinobi World'' was ''not'' released in Japan.

* NoOntologicalInertia: Averted in ''Miracle World''. Killing Janken the Great doesn't really do anything to stop his forces or reverse his evil magic spells in of itself, and Alex has to obtain the Golden Crown in order to fully restore Radaxian to how it once was.

* ''Alex Kidd in {{Shinobi}} World'' - Sega Master System (1990)

* OneHitPointWonder: In every game except ''Shinobi World''.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Alex Kidd is always seen eating a riceball in the in-between segments in ''Miracle World''. It was changed to a hamburger in the version of the game that was built into later consoles.