Sky Kid Deluxe
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Developer(s)	Namco
Publisher(s)	Namco
Platform(s)	Arcade
Release	JP: February 1986
Genre(s)	Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)	1-2 player simultaneous
Arcade system	Namco System 86

Sky Kid Deluxe (スカイキッドデラックス,Sukai Kiddo Derakkusu) is ahorizontally scrolling shooter released in arcades byNamco in 1986. It is the sequel toSky Kid, which was released in the previous year. It was the first game to run on the company'sSystem 86 hardware. It was also the first game from the company to use aYamaha YM2151FMsound chip for its music. The gameplay is more difficult than the original, and also introduces several new enemies and missions.

The game was re-released in the Japan-onlyNamco Collection forMicrosoft Windows and received its first ever worldwide port to a console as part ofNamco Museum Virtual Arcade for theXbox 360, but did not include the second player's character Blue Max. The game was released on March 2, 2023 under the nameSky Kid DX, for theNintendo Switch andPlayStation 4, as part of theArcade Archives series byHamster Corporation.

• As mentioned above,Sky Kid Deluxe used the enhanced System 86 hardware (the original ran on the olderNamco Pac-Land hardware) which allowed for greater variety in simultaneous colors (its palette is twice the size as that of the original; 512 as opposed to 256).
• The color of the sky is no longer only light blue for the whole game, but a range of different colors, including blues, grays and reds.
• Four new missions (numbered X1 to X4) have been inserted between the twenty-one original missions, for a total of twenty-five missions.
• Snow falls from the top of the screen (only in missions X1 and X3), which scrolls with the two Sky Kids as they are flying to the left.
• Several new enemies and mission targets have been introduced (one of whom, known as the "Kaminari Kid", cannot be killed by any means).
• Instead of only one background song produced by a Namco CUS30,Deluxe has two songs (produced by the aforementioned Yamaha YM2151).

In Japan,Game Machine listedSky Kid Deluxe on their May 1, 1986 issue as being the twenty-third most-successful table arcade unit of the month.^[1]

• Sky Kid Deluxe at theKiller List of Videogames
• Sky Kid Deluxe at the Arcade History database

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