Kacie and the Lost Star

Kacie and the Lost Star is an action platform video game developed by Toybox Games and based on the Incredible World of Riddles media franchise. It was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System on 18th June 1993 to coincide with the release of The New Adventures in the Incredible World of Riddles in cinemas. It was later released on the Wii's Virtual Console in June 2007.

Gameplay
Kacie and the Lost Star is an action platformer. Unlike the straightforward and linear Kacie's Adventure, it features a more explorative and non-linear nature. The game features five worlds which all feature multiple open levels in which the player must collect items and bring them to the level's goal(s). Kacie, the titular playable character, wears a unique outfit in most of the worlds.

Development
Kacie and the Lost Star was developed by Toybox Games after the studio signed a contract to produce a video game tie-in for The New Adventures in the Incredible World of Riddles. It was ultimately decided to release the game for the Super NES as Sqweek Interactive had exclusive rights to produce franchise-based games on Sega consoles, and there was no Incredible World of Riddles games on Nintendo consoles at the time. Although the game was supposed to tie in with the film, franchise creator Ashley Maverick eventually allowed the group to give the game its own story. At one point a NES version was considered but was decided against since the system was reaching the end of its life and the development team wanted to focus on making the Super NES version "as good as possible".

Developing the game on a Nintendo console, it was decided to take influence from Nintendo-made games such as Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda. RPG elements, such as combat and accessories were added to help the game stand out from other platform games. Because Maverick was concerned the inclusion of violence would contradict the franchise's preschool-friendly nature, she insisted that enemies looked "as non-human as possible".

Despite being released in Japan and the PAL regions in 1993, Kacie and the Lost Star did not see a North American release until two years later. Maverick was reluctant to release the game in North America because she was concerned that a Kuboian video game would not have a market in the region. She ultimately gave the go ahead to the publisher to release the game after visiting California in late 1994 and allowed children to play the game, with most of them giving it positive feedback.