Ice Climber

[Fryguy64]

Ice Climber Series

Ice Climber
1985 - Famicom / NES
- Also ported to the PC88-01 by Hudson Soft.

VS. Ice Climber / Ice Climber Disk
1985 - Arcade / 1988 - Famicom Disk System
- Mostly new stages, items, enemies and rewritten music

See also...
Climber (Game & Watch)

How to Play

- Controls
- Scoring (both games)
- Enemies
- Perhaps maps of each stage?

Cameos

Super Smash Bros. Melee
Separate cameo page to be created with all Ice Climber cameos in the SSB games (this will happen for all playable characters in the SSB series).
Characters: Ice Climbers (cameo moves, colours, etc.)
Music: "Ice Climber", "Ice Climber Victory"
Stage: Infinite Glacier: Icicle Mountain
Trophies: Ice Climbers (1, 2, 3), Topi, Polar Bear
Other: 8-bit style Break The Targets stage for IC

Animal Crossing
NES Ice Climber available as collectable game.

Kirby Series
From Nightmare in Dreamland onwards, Kirby now wears a blue parka when he has the Freeze ability. This is based on his design after swallowing the Ice Climbers in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames
9-Volt Ice Climber microgame. Jump to grab the Condor.
Also appears in Mega Party Games.

WarioWare: Twisted!
9-Volt Ice Climber microgame. Twist the GBA to swing Popo's hammer and defeat all the enemies as they approach. Uses updated sprites.

WarioWare: Touched!
9-Volt 8-Bit Hero microgame. Touch the pixel that doesn't match to reveal an 8-bit hero. The third-level difficulty is Popo.

Great Concert! Band Brothers
The song "Famicom Mini Medley" features a clip from Ice Climber's music.

Tetris DS
Marathon lines 140-149 feature Ice Climber.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
As with Melee, this info will be on a separate page (although possibly the same as Melee's)
Characters: Ice Climbers (cameo moves, colours, etc.)
Stage: Summit
Music: "Ice Climber", "Ice Climber (Melee)", "Ice Climber Victory"
Trophies: Ice Climbers, Iceberg, Vegetables
Stickers: Nana (artwork from boxart)

Art Style: PiCTOBiTS
Stages 4-5 and Dark Stages 4-5 are based on Ice Climber sprites.

WarioWare D.I.Y.
9-Volt Ice Climbers microgame. Jump through the breakable floor in order to grab the eggplant being held by the Condor.

[Boo Destroyer]

Adding onto the cameos section:

WarioWare D.I.Y.
9-Volt Ice Climbers microgame. Jump through the breakable floor in order to grab the eggplant being held by the Condor.

[The Qu]

You're missing the Summit in the SSBB blurb- that was the Brawl stage that replaced Icicle Mountain. Looks like you copy pasted over it.

[parrothead]

I know we had a discussion about this before, FryGuy64, but if the Game & Watch game simply titled "Climber" doesn't count as part of the Ice Climber series, because of their plots taking place in different universes, then how come Balloon Fight and Balloon Kid are part of the same series, but also take place in different universes?

[Fryguy64]

"Different universes"? No. Balloon Kid is filled with references to the Balloon Fight games, including its own Balloon Trip mode and the fact it's called "Balloon Fight GB" in Japan. It's got Balloon Fight enemies, the Balloon Fight fish, etc. etc.

"Climber" is based on "Ice Climber" in the same way that "Squish" is based on "Devil World" and "Urban Champion" is based on "Boxing" (yes, the G&W came first in that instance).

They share a couple of common gameplay mechanics, but they don't share any other elements in common - in particular the trademarked name. This is why, for the sake of argument, I am keeping them as separate series with a "see also" link.

[parrothead]

Okay, so that makes sense. The Game Boy game, X, is like those Game & Watch games.

[Fryguy64]

Apr 23, 2010 18:48:08 GMT -5 parrothead said:

Okay, so that makes sense. The Game Boy game, X, is like those Game & Watch games.

OK, that doesn't make any sense, because no Game & Watch game shares any gameplay mechanics of any Game & Watch game.

[parrothead]

Apr 24, 2010 4:11:12 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

Apr 23, 2010 18:48:08 GMT -5 parrothead said:

Okay, so that makes sense. The Game Boy game, X, is like those Game & Watch games.

OK, that doesn't make any sense, because no Game & Watch game shares any gameplay mechanics of any Game & Watch game.

That's not what I mean. What I mean is, as the Game & Watch games you mentioned are to X; as the NES games you mentioned are to the SNES Star Fox.

[The Qu]

In short, Parrot is saying X could be a "see also" game for Star Fox, or vice versa.

[Fryguy64]

I thought that might be what was meant, but I totally didn't get that

And yes, X and Star Fox will appear as each others' "Similar Games".

[Prince~Of~Light]

Hmm! We could try to improve on further with these "See Also"-stuff, you know, like if someone liked Starfox and then there's "See Also X/Ekkusu", he might like that too!

Pretty much then meaning we could show other similar games for those who liked that game. (-lwl)