King's Knight

King's Knight
North American NES box art
Developer(s)Square[a]
Publisher(s)Square
Designer(s)Hironobu Sakaguchi
Composer(s)Nobuo Uematsu
Platform(s)Nintendo Entertainment System, MSX, NEC PC-8801mkII SR, Sharp X1
ReleaseNES
  • JP: September 18, 1986
  • NA: Septemeber 1989
MSX
  • JP: November 1986
NEC PC-8801mkII SR and Sharp X1 (as King's Knight Special)
  • JP: June 1987
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

King's Knight[b] is a scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Square for the Nintendo Entertainment System and MSX. The game was released in Japan on September 18, 1986[1] and in North America in 1989.[2] It was later re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan on November 27, 2007[3] and in North America on March 24, 2008.[4] This would be followed by a release on the Virtual Console in Japan on February 4, 2015, for 3DS and July 6, 2016, for Wii U.

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-8801mkII SR and the Sharp X1. These versions of the game were retitled King's Knight Special and released exclusively in Japan. It was the first game designed by Hironobu Sakaguchi for the Famicom.[5] Nobuo Uematsu provided the musical score for King's Knight. It was Uematsu's third work of video game music composition.[6]


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  1. ^ https://www.famitsu.com/games/t/9050/, [bare URL]
  2. ^ Nintendo staff. "NES Games" (PDF). Nintendo. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 21, 2010. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  3. ^ "VC キングスナイト". November 24, 2007. Archived from the original on November 24, 2007. Retrieved March 14, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ "King's Knight [Virtual Console]". IGN. Archived from the original on September 28, 2008. Retrieved July 9, 2008.
  5. ^ Barder, Ollie (June 29, 2017). "Hironobu Sakaguchi Talks About His Admiration For 'Dragon Quest' And Upcoming Projects". Forbes. Archived from the original on July 15, 2017. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
  6. ^ Square Enix North America Site Staff (2005). "Uematsu's Music". Square Enix North America. Archived from the original on March 12, 2009. Retrieved May 2, 2006.