Alex Kidd in Miracle World
This game provides examples of:
- 1-Up: Small icons of Alex act as extra lives.
- Achievement Mockery: The PS3 port has a trophy for losing rock-paper-scissors even while using a Telepathy Ball, and a trophy for running out of lives in Janken's dungeon with less than $400. Both trophies are named "Shameful" and "Tears of Regret" respectively.
- Disc-One Final Dungeon: The blue castle. By the time you've reached it, the three Heads have been defeated and since it's a castle with a dark atmosphere and spooky music, it must be the end, but there are still a few levels to go.
- Lethal Lava Land: The volcano, which has several pools of hot lava that kills Alex on touch.
- Recurring Boss: The three heads show up twice throughout the game.
- Rule of Three: The King has three henchmen who have to be defeated in three janken matches each.
- Sequel Hook: The ending mentions that some doubt still lingers in Alex's mind as to whether or not the enemy forces have actually been destroyed, and additionally, the location of King Sander is still unknown.
- Taken for Granite: The King tells Alex that he'll turn him into a stone if he loses.
- Trial-and-Error Gameplay: The RPS matches aren't actually random, the bosses always pick the same moves, though you won't know that if you're playing for the first time. Once you fail, you'll know what moves to use next time.
- Turns Red: The bull boss, which turns faster and faster the more you hit it.
Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars
This game provides examples of:
- The Cameo: Opa-Opa shows up after beating the first level.
- Epileptic Flashing Lights: Machine World's machinery has elements that flash quickly between red and yellow, which can be painful, plus there are typically two or three such elements on screen at once.
- Eternal Engine: Machine World, a huge factory with conveyor belts and flashing mechanical things.
- Hard Mode Filler: After beating seven levels, you have to go through them again, though the health bar seems to be draning faster.
- Indy Escape: Level 5 has a boulder roll after Alex at one point with him having to outrun it, though the chase is short.
- Level Goal: Every level has a sign saying "EXIT" at the end.
- Life Meter: Alex has a life bar with 20 segments that starts red but turns white as it depletes, which happens when he is hit or as time passes.
- Score Screen: At the end of the level, you're shown a screen which counts your points based on how much life you have left.
- Toy Time: The first stage is a world of toys. with dice to walk on, toy cars riding and card enemies.
- The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: Ziggurat's Lair, which is a space level which you visit after getting all stars.
- Weapons-Grade Vocabulary: Toy dogs attack with the words "BOW WOW".
- A Winner Is You: All you get for beating all stages twice is the same cutscene you already saw 15 minutes ago and the words "THE END".
Alex Kidd BMX Trial
This game provides examples of:
- Eaten Alive: Alex can drive into a huge fish's mouth in South Seas which eats him alive.
- Roaring Rapids: Pyramid River, in which Alex actually rides his bike on water.
- Time Trial: The whole game has a timer ticking down. The objective is to beat all tracks in the shortest time possible.
Alex Kidd in High Tech World
This game provides examples of:
- Covers Always Lie: The game's cover shows Alex with a huge fist punching a ninja, except that Alex doesn't use his fist to fight in this game.
- Dolled-Up Installment: The game is basically Anmitsu Hime with the protagonist changed to Alex and some minor cultural differences.
- Enforced Plug: At the end of Alex Kidd: High-Tech World, Alex sits down at a Deluxe Type cabinet of OutRun.
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- Guide Dang It!: To get the pass, Alex must pray at the temple 100 times, and there's nothing in the game that would indicate that you have to do that. There are two other ways, but that's one's the easiest and works all the time.
- High-Voltage Death: Trying to use the broken computer makes Alex get an electric shock which causes a game over.
- Money for Nothing: All the money you can get and items you can find/buy in the town are fully unnecessary (including a book to printing passes and a printing press), since all you need to get the pass is to pray 100 times or enter a certain house at 1 PM. That said, you can still bribe the gate guard with 2000 GP if you do get it.
- Nintendo Hard: All levels in the game are fiendish. The first stage is a tough to navigate castle with an obtuse design. The second is a platformer with evil enemy placement and plenty of coins that are ultimately useless. The third has several dickish traps that may render the game impossible and an utterly bizarre solution to how to proceeed. The fourth is similar to the second, but with new, more annoying enemies.
- Only Smart People May Pass: To get one map piece, Alex must answer ten quiz questions about things you'd typically learn at school about like math or biology... oh, and Space Harrier.
- Password Save: The game is saved on a ten-character password with lowercase letters and uppercase letters, and top it off, once you enter the password screen, you can't exit it until you actually input a correct password.
- Prank Call: Alex can call 911 for no reason. The policeman calls him out on it, saying "You shouldn't make crank calls!"
- Red Herring: The pistol in the second house and the book for printing passes. The first can be used at the right time, but the second is ultimately useless, plus taking them makes Alex get captured if he tries to go through the checkpoint.
- Scolded for Not Buying: Alex can enter the rice store, but he doesn't plan to buy any rice there. The salesman tells him to get out of the store if he's not going to buy.
- Super Drowning Skills: If Alex falls into the water even once, he's screwed.
- Timed Mission: The game starts at 9 AM and you must get to the arcade by 5 PM, otherwise it's game over. At least each minute moves in real time, so it's quite lenient.
Alex Kidd in Enchanted Castle
This game provides examples of:
- Bears Are Bad News: A bear serves as the boss of Hiho Forest, though it only wants to play RPS.
- Bowdlerise: In the Japanese version, the loser of a Rock–Paper–Scissors match would be stripped of their clothes (with appropriate Scenery Censor). For the international versions, this was changed to the loser getting crushed by a giant weight.
- Build Like an Egyptian: Pyramid, the fifth level.
- Death Mountain: Rock Mountain 1 and 2, the respective eighth and ninth levels.
- First Town: Rookietown, the first level.
- Green Hill Zone: Prairie, the second level.
- Ominous Floating Castle: Sky Castle, the eleventh and final level, where Ashra serves as the Final Boss.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: King Thor wasn't in danger at all, he was just visiting Paperock. Ashra wasn't keeping him imprisoned, he was King Thor's servant. Alex had risked his life to resolve a situation that would have cleared up on its own.
- Shifting Sand Land: Scorpion Desert, the fourth level.
- Under the Sea: Splashy Sea, the third level.
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
