Ice Climbers
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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.
Good Qualities
- For the time, the gameplay was pretty original, as it involve jumping to get to the top of the mountain, which wasn't done that much in video games, it help that the game is feel decent to play.
- Good graphics that are simple but very good to look at for it's time, this is easily Nintendo graphics at their purest form.
- Catchy soundtrack, while it is very short and simple, it is still quite fun to listen to the soundtrack of this game and was very decent for it's time.
- Challenging difficulty, the game may appear easy but it isn't easy for most of the game since after some levels, it start to be very challenging and will require skill to not die for the longest time until you get a game over, much like Dig Dug 2.
- Good characters designs, one notable exemple are Popo and Nana themself.
- Decent controls for it's time, although they didn't aged well because of BQ#1.
- Very fun gameplay, and as stated in GQ#1, the gameplay is quite unique, making this even better, another good thing about it is that it had bonus stages like in most Nintendo 80s games, and the game will never be boring to play quickly.
- Although this game didn't got a sequel, Popo and Nana would later be even more famous because of their apparition in the Super Smash Bros. series.
Bad Qualities
- While for the time they we're decent, the controls had badly aged over the years because they aren't that tight and responsive, and sometime because of them, you might get cheap deaths at times.
- The game can sometime be way too hard, especially at the later levels.
Reception
Ice Climbers received mixed to positive reviews by critics and gamers, in which it was considered to be a pretty fun game and received a sort of cult following.
Trivia
- Originally the Topi enemies were seals but due to the fact that it's almost like seal clubbing, which is frowned upon, Nintendo changed the design to a miniature version of a yeti.
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