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Pit climbs out of the underworld in Kid Icarus with a bow that starts weak and strengthens if his health stays high. Hearts dropped by monsters pay for gear in the shops of Angel Land.
Nintendo built that climb in 1986 through vertical fortresses, sideways worlds, and a last sky maze. Medusa waits at the end, and falling off a vertical shaft drops Pit back down the room.
Later handheld and 3DS games in the series look back to this NES original. They reuse the angel and the growing bow, yet each of those later quests is a separate work.
Same series is the tight name match. Same franchise is the wider family. Same platform is other games on the systems named above.
The series list above is the whole family set in this catalog.
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