Ice Climber
1985 · Platform · NES
Overview
Ice Climber (1985) is Nintendo's two-player platformer, in which Popo and Nana climb 32 icy mountains to win back vegetables stolen by a giant condor.
Deep Dive
Popo and Nana smash through layers of ice with mallets to climb each mountain, fending off Topis, Nitpickers and White Bears. One or two can play.
Developer Story
Kenji Miki directed it, with Masayuki Uemura and Shigeru Miyamoto producing and Akito Nakatsuka composing. It came out on the Famicom in January 1985 and in North America that October.
Did You Know?
- Popo and Nana became fighters in Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001) and Ultimate (2018).
- An arcade version, VS. Ice Climber, also came out in 1985.
Sources & further reading
- Ice Climber — Wikipedia
