Ice Climber: Classic NES Series
- Exact re-creation of the beloved original!
- Scale 32 mountains.
- One- and two-player action.
Product Description
Ice Climber – Classic NES Series lets players delight in the arcade hit, complete with original graphics. An irritating condor has stolen your vegetables and left them on 32 different mountain peaks. If you want them back, you’ll have to climb them al. Fun challenge is waiting for you in this classic platform adventure!
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Now u can have ice climber on the go. This was the original nes series so when this came out it got more well loved. Since there is only one ice climber it was not very well loved. But as soon as this came out and super smash bros melle and brawl they became very well loved. It is the same everything as the original, graphics, tale, sound, and controls. Now u can have ice climbing on the go.
Rating: 4 / 5
Alright, for those of you who are huge fans of the Super Smash Bros. series, you should know about the Ice Climbers. They are 2 eskimo kids who are paired up together as one fighter to kick the butts of anyone in the arena.
With their introduction in Melee, several people wondered where they were from in the first place. This is the Gameboy Advance port of their very first NES game, part of the NES Classics series. It is title, what else? Ice Climber.
The basis of the game is unadorned: You control Popo, a small boy (or youthful midget, give or take) in a eskimo parka, (Or in the case of player 2, Nana, Popo’s GF in the pink parka) as he climbs several mountains (32 to be exact) to reach the top to catch the infamous condor, and by the side of the way, he collects vegetables… magic vegetables with EYES (I’m not joking, why do you reflect the IC’s Emblem, an EGGPLANT looks eerie in Melee/Brawl?)
To be blunt, the port of the NES game to the GBA is rather faithful. The graphics and music are proof of that, but unfortunately, that isn’t saying much for the gameplay. Each level is breaken up into 8 rows that you must climb to reach the top. You must jump up and hit the cieling to take a chunk of it off and jump up to the next row, and so on and so forth. As you do so, icicles form on certain parts of the cieling, and you must avoid them, and you also run into several enemies, a red bird called the “Nitpicker,” the infamous Topi (A yeti thing in the US version, a blue seal in the JP), and a polar bear. The nitpicker, being a bird, flies towards you to collide into you, but it isn’t that much distress; you can also take it down while jumping under it. The topis can walk into you, and sometimes bring Icicles to rebuild broken parts of the floor that an either impede your progress or help you out. The polar bears, when they show up, you better pray that you’re not at the bottom of the screen, because they can jump and cause the screen to go upward, and if you’re at the bottom when that happens, you DIE. So anyway, if you clear all 8 rows, you’re taken to a bonus segment, where you must climb to the top on clouds while getting vegetables, and at the top, there is the condor. If you manage to grab onto the condor, you end the level with a bonus. If you fall down before doing so during the segment, you just go onto the next level with no bonus.
Now, the controls. Aside from the D-Pad, which controls the Ice Climber, There are 4 buttons. Start, which starts the game at the menu and pauses it; Brilliant, which I believe is only useful for selecting 1/2 player at the menu (meaning, unless you can connect with a player on the GBA with an accessory, it’s practically useless); A which is used to jump, and B with is used to club enemies with your mallet. The B button is open, and so are the D-Pad, but, the game’s right downfall is the JUMPING. Oh god, the JUMPING. Everything else is fine, but it’s the JUMPING that’s the most abysmal. What to know what I mean? When Popo jumps, he gets splendid vertical height, in other words, he jumps REALLY high, but at the cost of a GREAT deal of horizontal length. I know that he’s supposed to be climbing mountains, but come on! The dreadful jumping in this game doesn’t really cover that much space at all, and if you’re not that careful in the later levels, there is a splendid chance that you’re gonna fall to the bottom and die. And that is ESPECIALLY a conundrum when you try to jump on clouds, and in the bonus levels if you try to reach the top. And also, there are more problems besides that. If you jump and happen to hit a wall, Popo goes to the OTHER management. And there are times where Popo goes owing to the EDGE of a platform while jumping. This is also just as wack when Popo can jump owing to the edge of a cloud, but he can’t jump on the cloud from DIRECTLY UNDER IT. I defies logic in of itself, and I don’t know why clouds are SOLID object when they’re not supposed to be, even in real life! I know it may sound crazy, but play it and see for yourself!
By and large, it’s a decent game, just not in fact enough to get the “cult status” that is claimed to have. It’s a excellent port of the original NES game, and the gameplay and controls are faithful, but it’s the JUMPING that carried over from the NES game that brought the score down.
There is one thing that we should be grateful for, is the fact that this game introduces these cute small parka-wearing kids into the world, and that the producers brought them back in Melee and Brawl.
Rating: 3 / 5
Has anyone noticed that this is a tad bit harder then the normal ice climber ? is it just because the screen is really small or the buttons on the gameboy are really tiny ? why is somthing so EASY really hard ? lol
I had the normal NES ice climber when it came out back in the day and that was really fun…but that was NOT as hard as this one… why ?
Im selling just about every game I have because I guess my fingers got to huge for the buttons so check out my market place listings for a deal but be quick most are selling like hot cakes
Rating: 5 / 5
Okay … First off this is a cute unadorned game that a lot of people will delight in the heck out of. You climb mountains as an eskimo and you can knock off your enemies from not more than or hit them with a hammer – classic NES … unadorned and addictive. But what I want to know is this any different than the E-READER version which costs about $3? Anyone else notice that EXCITEBIKE, ICE CLIMBER, and DONKEY KONG (and DONKEY KONG JR) were all released as e-reader sports meeting at less than $6?!?!? Hmmmmm. Sounds kinda fishy to me that now they are on a cartridge … alone for $19. Couldn’t we have gotten a compilation cart? Just wondering!
Rating: 3 / 5
Ice Climber was a classic NES game that I had always heard of but never played. Recently I have had the opportunity to play it and I in fact like it a lot. I reflect if this was one of the sports meeting I had 15 years ago I would have been hooked. The concept here is unadorned. Two eskimos have to go find stolen vegetables and they must get to the top of the mountains to do so. Armed with hammers they must hit yettis, seals, birds, bears and also ice and rock to be able to advance further up to the top. There are 31 mountains to scale in this game, which could have you playing for a small while to beat the game. If I am not mistaken, you can choose which mountain to start on in the beginning. So in closing, while this is no where near an NES masterpiece it is a pretty fun game and those who grew up with it will probably like the thought of playing it on the gameboy advance. This game isnt even a masterpiece of any kind, but a right NES classic with the familiar NES graphics, sound and gameplay. I would recommend that classic NES fans pick this one up when it is released, and I don’t reflect the $19.99 price tag is too much here(unlike Donkey Kong). Not a groundbreaking game, but should keep you entertained if you try to beat all 31 mountains.
Rating: 3 / 5