Ice Climber
Ice Climber is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo. It was released in 1985 for both the arcade VS. System and the Famicom / Nintendo Entertainment System console. The characters Popo and Nana, collectively known as the Ice Climbers, scale 32 vertically scrolling, ice-covered mountains to recover stolen vegetables from a giant condor. In some European countries, Ice Climber was bundled with the Nintendo Entertainment System.
| Ice Climber | |
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North American NES box art | |
| Developer(s) | Nintendo R&D1 |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo Hudson Soft(PC-8801) |
| Director(s) | Kenji Miki |
| Producer(s) | Masayuki Uemura Shigeru Miyamoto |
| Programmer(s) | Kazuaki Morita Toshihiko Nakago |
| Artist(s) | Tadashi Sugiyama |
| Composer(s) | Akito Nakatsuka |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Nintendo Entertainment System, PC-8801, Sharp X1, Famicom Disk System |
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| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Arcade system | Nintendo VS. System |
The arcade version, VS. Ice Climber, has an animated title screen, a stage select menu at the start of the game and between levels, 16 more mountains, occasional blizzard and wind effects, more enemy characters, and bonus multiplier items.
Nana and Popo are playable characters in the Super Smash Bros. series, starting with the 2001 game Super Smash Bros. Melee for the GameCube. Nintendo released the NES version for the Game Boy Advance through the Nintendo e-Reader in 2002.