Ice Climber

Ice Climber
Ice Climber
	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
Release	1985 NES JP: January 30, 1985; NA: October 18, 1985; EU: September 1, 1986; ; Arcade (VS. Ice Climber) JP: February 4, 1985; NA: March 1985; ; PC-8801 JP: October 1985; ; Sharp X1 JP: November 1985; ; Famicom (VS. Ice Climber) JP: November 18, 1988; ; Game Boy Advance; Classic NES Series JP: February 14, 2004; NA: June 2, 2004; EU: July 9, 2004; Nintendo Switch; Arcade Archives WW: February 22, 2019;
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system	Nintendo VS. System

Ice Climber^[a] 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.^[b] 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.

The arcade version, VS. Ice Climber^[c], 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.

^ "Ice Climber: instruction booklet. (Registration Number TX0002515321)". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
^ "アイスクライマー" [Ice Climber]. Famitsu (in Japanese). Retrieved June 19, 2021.
^ "Flyer Fever - The Vs. Challenge (U.S.)".
^ "Ice climber. (Registration Number PA0000254907)". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
^ "Arcade Archives ICE CLIMBER". Nintendo. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
^ "Ice Climber retrospective: A slippery slope for platforming". YouTube. Jeremy Parish. May 24, 2016. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
^ Famicom 20th Anniversary Original Sound Tracks Vol. 1 (Media notes). Scitron Digital Contents Inc. 2004. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
^ Akagi, Masumi (October 13, 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. p. 128. ISBN 978-4990251215.

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[NES_Copyright-1] "Ice Climber: instruction booklet. (Registration Number TX0002515321)". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved June 6, 2021.

[2] "アイスクライマー" [Ice Climber]. Famitsu (in Japanese). Retrieved June 19, 2021.

[vschallenge-3] "Flyer Fever - The Vs. Challenge (U.S.)".

[FC_Copyright-4] "Ice climber. (Registration Number PA0000254907)". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved June 6, 2021.

[Arcade_Archives-5] "Arcade Archives ICE CLIMBER". Nintendo. Retrieved June 13, 2024.

[6] "Ice Climber retrospective: A slippery slope for platforming". YouTube. Jeremy Parish. May 24, 2016. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2021.

[7] Famicom 20th Anniversary Original Sound Tracks Vol. 1 (Media notes). Scitron Digital Contents Inc. 2004. Retrieved April 18, 2011.

[NA-9] Akagi, Masumi (October 13, 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. p. 128. ISBN 978-4990251215.

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