Editing Ice Climber

{{Game
|name=Ice Climber
|image=[[Image:IceClimberBox.jpg|200px]]
|bgcolor=silver
|fgcolor=black
|developer=[[Nintendo R&D1]]
|publisher=[[Nintendo]]
|system=[[Nintendo Entertainment System]], [[Arcade]], [[e-Reader]], [[Game Boy Advance]], [[Virtual Console]] ([[Wii Virtual Console|Wii]], [[3DS Virtual Console|3DS]], [[Wii U Virtual Console|Wii U]])
|release='''Nintendo Entertainment System'''<br />JP October 30, 1985<br />US October 1985<br />EU September 1, 1986<br />JP November 18, 1988 ([[Famicom Disk System|FDS]])<br />'''Arcade'''<br />US 1988< br />'''e-Reader'''<br /> US November 12, 2002<br />'''Game Boy Advance'''<br />JP February 14, 2004<br />US June 2, 2004<br />EU July 9, 2004<br />'''Wii Virtual Console'''<br />JP January 16, 2007<br />US February 12, 2007<br />EU March 16, 2007<br />'''3DS Virtual Console'''<br />August 31, 2011 (''Ambassador'')<br />JP July 4, 2012<br />US January 31, 2013<br />EU May 2, 2013<br />SK March 2, 2016'''Wii U Virtual Console'''<br />US April 26, 2013<br />JP/PAL April 27, 2013
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|rating= ESRB: E
|}}

{{dablink|This article is about the game. For the characters starring in this game, see [[Ice Climbers]].}}

'''Ice Climber''' is a platforming game for the [[NES]] that stars a pair of heroes in parkas within an arctic setting. Despite its obscurity, the game later received more exposure due to the game's heroes appearing in several of the ''[[Portal: Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros.]]'' games.

=Story=
All of the village's vegetables have been stolen by a giant condor. It's up to [[Ice Climbers|Popo  and Nana]] to get them back.

=Gameplay=

The goal of ''Ice Climbers'' is to get to the top of the mountain. To get to the top, the player has to chip their way through the ice, defeat enemies, and avoid deadly icicles. After the first eight stories of the mountain, the player comes to a bonus area. They then have 40 seconds to grab as many vegetables as they can and try to defeat the condor. After completing a mountain, the player moves on to a new one.

The enemies include polar bears, Nitpickers, and [[Topi]]s. In the Japanese version of the game, the Topis were seals, but were changed in the American version of the game due to concerns about animal cruelty, specifically seal clubbing.

In two player mode, both players try to advance up the mountain. For most of the level, players may cooperate to get up the mountain. However, once they get to the bonus area, the players must compete for vegetables and to reach the condor.

=Legacy=

Though ''Ice Climber'' never received any sequel, the characters have appeared in various Nintendo games since then. Most prominently, Popo and Nana have been featured as playable characters in several games of the ''[[Portal: Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros.]]'' series, starting in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. Some of [[9-Volt]]'s microgames in the ''WarioWare'' series are based on ''Ice Clmber'' or feature Popo and Nana. ''[[Tetris DS]]'' and ''[[Daigasso! Band Brothers]]'' also feature references to ''Ice Climber'', and it is one of the games featured in ''[[NES Remix]]''. 

The game was also the first game programmed by Kazuaki Morita. He considered the game a "warm up" before working on ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''

==Ports and Remakes==
*In 1988, Nintendo released an [[arcade]] version of ''Ice Climber'' as part of the Vs. series.
*Nintendo allowed Hudson Soft to port ''Ice Climbers'' to the NEC PC-8801.
*In 2002, ''Ice Climber'' was released as an [[E-Reader]] game.
*In 2004, ''Ice Climber'' was playable in ''[[Animal Crossing]]''.
*In 2004, ''Ice Climber'' was released for the [[Game Boy Advance]] as part of the Classic NES series.
*''Ice Climber'' was made available for download on other Nintendo systems through each iteration of the [[Virtual Console]]: the [[Wii Virtual Console]] in 2007, the [[3DS Virtual Console]] in 2012 and the [[Wii U Virtual Console]] in 2013. Before its original 3DS Virtual Console release, the game was among those offered for free for participants in the  [[3DS Virtual Console#Ambassador_Program|Ambassador Program]]. A demo version of the game was included in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' as a Masterpiece.
*In 2016, it was among the games included in the [[NES Classic Edition]].
*In 2018, it was among the NES games made available for release as part of the [[Nintendo Switch Online Service]]. It was part of the first wave of games that were made available with the launch of the service in 2018. This version included cooperative and competitive online multiplayer options.

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