Ice Climber

This article is about the video game. For the activity in general, see Ice climbing.
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[6]
Artist(s)Tadashi Sugiyama
Composer(s)Akito Nakatsuka[7]
Platform(s)Arcade, Nintendo Entertainment System, PC-8801, Sharp X1, Famicom Disk System
Release
1985
  • NES
    • JP: January 30, 1985[2]
    • NA: October 18, 1985[1]
    • EU: September 1, 1986
  • Arcade (VS. Ice Climber)
  • 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[5]
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemNintendo 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, 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.

  1. ^ "アイスクライマー" [Ice Climber]. Famitsu (in Japanese). Retrieved June 19, 2021.
  2. ^ "Flyer Fever - The Vs. Challenge (U.S.)". February 20, 2021.
  3. ^ "Arcade Archives ICE CLIMBER". Nintendo. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ Famicom 20th Anniversary Original Sound Tracks Vol. 1 (Media notes). Scitron Digital Contents Inc. 2004. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
  6. ^ 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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