Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (アレックスキッド 天空魔城) is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Sega for the Genesis. The game was released in Japan on February 10, 1989, in the U.S. on August 14, 1989,[1] in Europe on November 30, 1990, in South Korea in December 1990, and in Brazil in March 21, 1991, shortly after the beginning of autumn. It is the only 16-bit platform game starring Alex Kidd, and the fifth game in the Alex Kidd series of video games.