| 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. 98 (printed p. 96), release schedule | Book |
| The game is Nintendo's: Famicom Tsushin called it Nintendo's action game, and the North American manual is copyright 1987 Nintendo of America Inc. | printed p. 95 (PDF p. 97), 新着ゲーム通信 | Manual |
| Previewing it in November and December 1986, Famicom Tsushin described an action game on Greek mythology in which the angel boy Pit, armed with a sacred bow, defeats Medusa and saves Palutena. Its three stages, the Underworld, the Overworld, and the Sky World, scroll vertically and horizontally and are laid out like stairs; the fortress at the end of each is a maze, and Pit climbs toward the temple in the sky collecting Palutena's three treasures. | printed p. 95 (PDF p. 97), 新着ゲーム通信printed p. 95 (PDF p. 97), 新着ゲーム通信 | Magazine |
| 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, 11月14日付 | Magazine |
| Famicom Tsushin's release schedule of 28 November 1986 listed Tecmo's Famicom cartridge アルゴスの戦士 for mid-February 1987, price undecided. | printed p. 96 (PDF p. 98), 発売日スケジュール表, 2月発売予定のゲームprinted p. 96 (PDF p. 98), 発売日スケジュール表, 2月発売予定のゲーム | 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. 5 (PDF p. 7), ファミ通TOP30 (11月14日付) | Magazine |