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In 1985 in the U.S., the game ''Ice Climber'' was released, and it was among the groups of video games released prior to the release of the original ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' later that year. In that sense it would not have been considered a huge success, as video games had not entered the mainstream at the time. It was the first game programmed by prominent programmer Kazuaki Morita, and he would later consider this game his "warm-up" on the NES before his work as a Main Programmer on ''Super Mario Bros.'', which revolutionized the industry. Morita later had central programming roles in other [[Mario (universe)|''Mario'' games]], as well as games in [[The Legend of Zelda (universe)|''The Legend of Zelda'' series]] and ''[[Star Fox 64]]'' as well. ''Ice Climber'' in the meantime had been ported to other related platforms such as the | In 1985 in the U.S., the game ''Ice Climber'' was released, and it was among the groups of video games released prior to the release of the original ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' later that year. In that sense it would not have been considered a huge success, as video games had not entered the mainstream at the time. It was the first game programmed by prominent programmer Kazuaki Morita, and he would later consider this game his "warm-up" on the NES before his work as a Main Programmer on ''Super Mario Bros.'', which revolutionized the industry. Morita later had central programming roles in other [[Mario (universe)|''Mario'' games]], as well as games in [[The Legend of Zelda (universe)|''The Legend of Zelda'' series]] and ''[[Star Fox 64]]'' as well. ''Ice Climber'' in the meantime had been ported to other related platforms such as the Famicom Disk System, with an altered and lesser-known version called ''Vs. Ice Climber'' released in arcades in the year before its first normal release. More recently, the game had been ported to several modern platforms such as the e-Reader for Game Boy Advance (as well as a ''Classic NES series'' entry), as a collectible NES game in the 2002 GameCube game ''[[Animal Crossing]]'', and as an entry in the list of games available for the [[Wii]] Virtual Console. The game was also made available to those who purchased a [[Nintendo 3DS]] prior to the infamous price drop, through the ''Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Programme''. | ||
In ''Ice Climber'', the player controls one of two children in Eskimo parkas and wielding huge mallets (the game can be played solo with the blue Ice Climber, Popo, seen only onscreen, or cooperatively where the other, pink Ice Climber, Nana, is controlled by the second player simultaneously), and the challenge is to scale vertical stages, titled mountains, to recover the [[Ice Climbers]]' stolen vegetables from a giant [[condor]] that flies around at the top of each mountain. Each stage consists of eight lower floors featuring barriers and blocks of smashable ice arranged to make jumping up and climbing each stage is tricky. During this the Ice Climbers must contend with a few varieties of enemies native to this mountain: The relatively harmless [[Topi]] which pushes ice into gaps to impede the player's progress; The more harmful bird enemy Nitpicker, which flies around and can damage the player; and the pink-shorts-wearing, sunglass-sporting, upright-walking [[Polar bear]], which pounds the ice to force the screen to move upward, and if an Ice Climber is too far down at the bottom, a life will be lost. After eight floors of this, the Ice Climbers reach the second half of the stage, the "bonus" stage, where without any enemies to worry about they must navigate a tricky platform obstacle course, collecting vegetables for bonus points, and when they reach the mountain's peak the [[Condor]] flies above. Jump up with pinpoint precision to grab the Condor's talons and end the stage with a huge bonus. | In ''Ice Climber'', the player controls one of two children in Eskimo parkas and wielding huge mallets (the game can be played solo with the blue Ice Climber, Popo, seen only onscreen, or cooperatively where the other, pink Ice Climber, Nana, is controlled by the second player simultaneously), and the challenge is to scale vertical stages, titled mountains, to recover the [[Ice Climbers]]' stolen vegetables from a giant [[condor]] that flies around at the top of each mountain. Each stage consists of eight lower floors featuring barriers and blocks of smashable ice arranged to make jumping up and climbing each stage is tricky. During this the Ice Climbers must contend with a few varieties of enemies native to this mountain: The relatively harmless [[Topi]] which pushes ice into gaps to impede the player's progress; The more harmful bird enemy Nitpicker, which flies around and can damage the player; and the pink-shorts-wearing, sunglass-sporting, upright-walking [[Polar bear]], which pounds the ice to force the screen to move upward, and if an Ice Climber is too far down at the bottom, a life will be lost. After eight floors of this, the Ice Climbers reach the second half of the stage, the "bonus" stage, where without any enemies to worry about they must navigate a tricky platform obstacle course, collecting vegetables for bonus points, and when they reach the mountain's peak the [[Condor]] flies above. Jump up with pinpoint precision to grab the Condor's talons and end the stage with a huge bonus. |
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