| A retrospective catalog of Famicom games dates the Famicom version 26 December 1986, but Famicom Tsushin's release schedules of 14 November, 28 November, and 12 December 1986 all listed it for late January 1987, with its price not yet set. No source read settles which date is right. | PDF p. 82 (printed p. 80), release schedule | Book |
| Famicom Tsushin's issue of 12 December 1986 listed Hikari Shinwa: Palutena no Kagami, Nintendo's game for the Famicom Disk System, as planned for release on 15 December 1986, at 2,600 yen on a Disk Card. Its issue of 14 November had planned it for early December. | printed p. 79 (PDF p. 81), news column by 森下万里子 | Magazine |
| The Japanese release is titled Hikari Shinwa: Palutena no Kagami (光神話 パルテナの鏡). Famicom Tsushin reported on 14 November 1986 that Nintendo had renamed the game, until then announced as Angel Land (エンジェランド), a working title, Palutena no Kagami. | printed p. 79 (PDF p. 81), news column by 森下万里子 | Manual |
| King's Knight placed in Famicom Tsushin's TOP30, a chart the magazine compiled with the help of named department and toy stores: 6th on the chart dated 31 October 1986 (6th the time before), 7th on 14 November, and 11th on 28 November. | p. 5 (image 7), ファミ通TOP30, 10月31日付p. 4 (image 6), ファミ通TOP30 | Magazine |
| Famicom Tsushin's readers' Top 20 dated 31 October 1986 put the Famicom Solomon's Key twelfth, with 170 points, and its Top 30 dated 14 November 1986 put it twenty-first. | printed p. 8 (PDF p. 10), 読者が選ぶTOP20 (10月31日付)printed p. 8 (PDF p. 10), 読者が選ぶTOP20 | Magazine |
| Famicom Tsūshin's news column of 14 November 1986 reported the game, due from Taito in early December, as based on an original story Beat Takeshi made, depicting an ordinary salaryman's life, a "salaryman adventure game". | p. 79 (image 81), 謎のゲーム 未確認情報 (Mystery games: unconfirmed news), by 森下万里子 (Morishita Mariko)p. 79 (image 81) | Magazine |