King's Knight
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North American NES box art
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| Developer(s) | Square |
| Publisher(s) | Square |
| Composer(s) | Nobuo Uematsu |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo Entertainment System, MSX |
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| Genre(s) | Scrolling shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
King's Knight (キングスナイト Kingusu Naito?) is a 1986 scrolling shooter video game developed by Square for the Nintendo Entertainment System and MSX. The game was released in Japan on September 18, 1986, and in North America in 1989. It was later re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan on November 27, 2007 and in North America on March 24, 2008.
The game became Square's first North American release under their Redmond subsidiary Squaresoft, and their first release as an independent company. The 1986 release's title screen credits Workss for programming. King's Knight saw a second release in 1987 on the NEC PC-8801 and the Sharp X1. These versions of the game were retitled King's Knight Special and released exclusively in Japan. Nobuo Uematsu provided the musical score for King's Knight. It was Uematsu's third work of video game music composition.
King's Knight follows the basic storyline that many NES-era role-playing video game displayed: Princess Claire of Olthea has been kidnapped in the Kingdom of Izander, and the player must choose one of the four heroes (the knight/warrior "Ray Jack", the wizard "Kaliva", the monster/gigant "Barusa" and the (kid) thief "Toby") to train and set forth to attack Gargatua Castle, defeat the evil dragon Tolfida and rescue her.
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