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''Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom'' is a 1990 UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by Creator/{{Toaplan}}, starring the eponymous guys made of snow, who trap enemies in big snowball that are then used to crush other wandering enemies with. The game is divided into 5 stages made of 10 floors each, with a boss every 10th floor which can be damaged either by pelting it with snow (but it takes a long time) or by bashing it with the snowballs made with its minions.

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''Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom'' is a 1990 UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by Creator/{{Toaplan}}, starring the eponymous guys made of snow, who trap enemies in big snowball snowballs that are then used to crush other wandering enemies with. The game is divided into 5 stages made of 10 floors each, with a boss every 10th floor which can be damaged either by pelting it with snow (but it takes a long time) or by bashing it with the snowballs made with its minions.



In 2022, a remake was released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch under the name of ''Snow Bros. Special''



* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: For Snow Bros 2, Hanafram seems to think Americans would dig a more uncanny valley character select screen compared to the Asians. Case in point: With the CountrySwitch set to Japan, Korea and Asia, you get cutesy drawings. With it set to US or Europe however, you get deformed photoshopped babies.

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* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: For Snow Bros 2, Hanafram seems to think Americans would dig a more uncanny valley character select screen compared to the Asians. Case in point: With the CountrySwitch set to Japan, Korea and Asia, you get cutesy drawings. With However, with it set to US or Europe however, Europe, you get deformed photoshopped babies.



* DualBoss: The birds in floor 30, the devils in stage 40 and the last boss. Chameleons in [=SB2=].

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* DualBoss: The birds in on floor 30, the devils in stage 40 40, and the last boss. Chameleons in [=SB2=].



* EvilOverlord: King Artich serves as the main antagonist in Snow Bros. Special



* AnIcePerson: The bros.
* InvincibleMinorMinion: A sumo fighter that appears in stage 3 in unreachable parts of the floor, shoots some fireballs from his hands and disappears when all the other monsters in the floor are defeated. It's difficult to hit: you must use a frozen enemy to allow yourself to reach the unreachable platform and hit the sumo enemy a few times. It will then disappear and leave behind a Japanese card that can be collected for points.

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* AnIcePerson: The bros.
Snow Bros.
* InvincibleMinorMinion: A sumo fighter that appears in stage 3 in unreachable parts of the floor, shoots some fireballs from his hands hands, and disappears when all the other monsters in on the floor are defeated. It's difficult to hit: you must use a frozen enemy to allow yourself to reach the unreachable platform and hit the sumo enemy a few times. It will then disappear and leave behind a Japanese card that can be collected for points.



* PlayerMooks: The Monster Challenge DLC of Snow Bros. Special allows the player to play the game as one of the regular enemies.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething:
** Nick and Tom are this on the ports where they're established as cursed princes.
** The princesses become this in the Genesis version as the player takes control of them after Nick and Tom were kidnapped after defeating the level 50's boss until the end of the game. [[spoiler: They are unlockable characters in the Monster Challenge DLC of Snow Bros. Special]]



* SpiritualSuccessor: The most likely one is ''Nightmare in the Dark'', an obscure coin-op that came out 10 years after Snow Bros., featuring a hunchback who engulfs enemies in balls of fire instead of snowballs (other than this, the gameplay is exactly the same).
* StalkedByTheBell: If you take too long to complete a floor, a jack o'lantern will appear. If you still don't kill all enemies, the evil pumpkin will spawn an invincible ghost relentlessly tracking you.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: The most likely one is ''Nightmare in the Dark'', an obscure coin-op that came out 10 years after Snow Bros., featuring a hunchback who engulfs enemies in balls of fire instead of snowballs (other than this, the gameplay is exactly the same).
* StalkedByTheBell: If you take too long to complete a floor, a jack o'lantern jack-o'lantern will appear. If you still don't kill all enemies, the evil pumpkin will spawn an invincible ghost relentlessly tracking you.



* WasOnceAMan: The NES version of the first game claims that Nick and Tom are human princes who were cursed to turn into snowmen.

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* WasOnceAMan: The NES version of the first game and Snow Bros. Special claims that Nick and Tom are human princes who were cursed to turn into snowmen. snowmen.
* WeddingFinale: [[spoiler: Nick and Princess Puchi Puchi marry at the end of Snow Bros. Special]]
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* NameAndName: Nick & Tom, Rabu & Bamu (which is how the twin lizard bosses' names are shown in the Japanese Snow Bros 2)

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* NameAndName: Nick & Tom, Rabu Love & Bamu Bomb (which is how the twin lizard bosses' names are shown in the Japanese Snow Bros 2)



* TooLongDidntDub: In the English Snow Bros 2, the bosses are just referred to as "BOSS". They each have a name in the original Japanese in an appropriate color and font (Fever #1, Bullet Train, Rabu & Bamu, Usachin, and Attsuu the Great).

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* TooLongDidntDub: In the English Snow Bros 2, the bosses are just referred to as "BOSS". They each have a name in the original Japanese in an appropriate color and font (Fever #1, Bullet Train, Rabu Love & Bamu, Bomb, Usachin, and Attsuu the Great).

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* DualBoss: The birds in floor 30, the devils in stage 40 and the last boss. Chameleons in [=SB2=]. ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Cacodemons]]'' and the final boss in [=SB3=], but those are just reskins of the [=SB1=] bosses.

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* DualBoss: The birds in floor 30, the devils in stage 40 and the last boss. Chameleons in [=SB2=]. ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Cacodemons]]'' and the final boss in [=SB3=], but those are just reskins of the [=SB1=] bosses.



* InNameOnly: ''Snow Bros 3'' is a typical Korean rip-off with a new hero, a horribly ugly dwarf or something that turns enemies into giant footballs and rolls them. The game seems to be made [[http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/png/snowbro3.png about the 2002 Korea-Japan World Soccer Championship]], but has nothing to do with it either. (In fact, it appears to just be a graphics hack of the first Snow Bros, with little else changed)
* InvincibleMinorMinion: A sumo fighter that appears in stage 3 in unreachable parts of the floor, shoots some fireballs from his hands and disappears when all the other monsters in the floor are defeated. It can't be hit, so it is unclear if it's actually invincible.
** Actually you can use a frozen enemy to allow yourself to reach the unreachable platform and hit the sumo enemy a few times. It will then dissapear and leave a Japanese-card-thingy that can be collected for points.

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* InNameOnly: ''Snow Bros 3'' is a typical Korean rip-off with a new hero, a horribly ugly dwarf or something that turns enemies into giant footballs and rolls them. The game seems to be made [[http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/png/snowbro3.png about the 2002 Korea-Japan World Soccer Championship]], but has nothing to do with it either. (In fact, it appears to just be a graphics hack of the first Snow Bros, with little else changed)
* InvincibleMinorMinion: A sumo fighter that appears in stage 3 in unreachable parts of the floor, shoots some fireballs from his hands and disappears when all the other monsters in the floor are defeated. It can't be hit, so it is unclear if it's actually invincible.
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It's difficult to hit: you can must use a frozen enemy to allow yourself to reach the unreachable platform and hit the sumo enemy a few times. It will then dissapear disappear and leave behind a Japanese-card-thingy Japanese card that can be collected for points.



* {{Snowlems}}: In the end, that's what the bros are.

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* {{Snowlems}}: In the end, that's what the bros are. Apart from the NES version of the first game, as explained below.


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* WasOnceAMan: The NES version of the first game claims that Nick and Tom are human princes who were cursed to turn into snowmen.
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* DualBoss: The birds in floor 30, the devils in stage 40 and the last boss. Chameleons in [=SB2=]. ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Cacodemons]]'' in [=SB3=].

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* DualBoss: The birds in floor 30, the devils in stage 40 and the last boss. Chameleons in [=SB2=]. ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Cacodemons]]'' and the final boss in [=SB3=].[=SB3=], but those are just reskins of the [=SB1=] bosses.



* InNameOnly: ''Snow Bros 3'' is a typical Korean rip-off with a new hero, a horribly ugly dwarf or something that turns enemies into giant footballs and rolls them. The game seems to be made [[http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/png/snowbro3.png about the 2002 Korea-Japan World Soccer Championship]], but has nothing to do with it either.

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* InNameOnly: ''Snow Bros 3'' is a typical Korean rip-off with a new hero, a horribly ugly dwarf or something that turns enemies into giant footballs and rolls them. The game seems to be made [[http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/png/snowbro3.png about the 2002 Korea-Japan World Soccer Championship]], but has nothing to do with it either. (In fact, it appears to just be a graphics hack of the first Snow Bros, with little else changed)



* NameAndName: Nick & Tom.

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* NameAndName: Nick & Tom.Tom, Rabu & Bamu (which is how the twin lizard bosses' names are shown in the Japanese Snow Bros 2)
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* TooLongDidntDub: In the English Snow Bros 2, the bosses are just referred to as "BOSS". They each have a name in the original Japanese in an appropriate color and font.

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* TooLongDidntDub: In the English Snow Bros 2, the bosses are just referred to as "BOSS". They each have a name in the original Japanese in an appropriate color and font.font (Fever #1, Bullet Train, Rabu & Bamu, Usachin, and Attsuu the Great).
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''Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom'' is a 1990 UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by {{Toaplan}}, starring the eponymous guys made of snow, who trap enemies in big snowball that are then used to crush other wandering enemies with. The game is divided into 5 stages made of 10 floors each, with a boss every 10th floor which can be damaged either by pelting it with snow (but it takes a long time) or by bashing it with the snowballs made with its minions.

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''Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom'' is a 1990 UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by {{Toaplan}}, Creator/{{Toaplan}}, starring the eponymous guys made of snow, who trap enemies in big snowball that are then used to crush other wandering enemies with. The game is divided into 5 stages made of 10 floors each, with a boss every 10th floor which can be damaged either by pelting it with snow (but it takes a long time) or by bashing it with the snowballs made with its minions.
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* TooLongDidntDub: In the English Snow Bros 2, the bosses are just referred to as "BOSS". They each have a name in the original Japanese in an appropriate color and font.

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The rights and patents for Snow Bros was sold to a company called Hanafram when Toaplan filed for bankruptcy, who created a sequel.




* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Toaplan seems to think Americans would dig a more uncanny valley character select screen compared to the Asians. Case in point: With the CountrySwitch set to Japan, Korea and Asia, you get cutesy drawings. With it set to US or Europe however, you get deformed photoshopped babies.

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* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Toaplan For Snow Bros 2, Hanafram seems to think Americans would dig a more uncanny valley character select screen compared to the Asians. Case in point: With the CountrySwitch set to Japan, Korea and Asia, you get cutesy drawings. With it set to US or Europe however, you get deformed photoshopped babies.
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* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Toaplan seems to think Americans would dig a more uncanny valley character select screen compared to the Asians. Case in point: With the CountrySwitch set to Japan, Korea and Asia, you get cutesy drawings. With it set to US or Europe however, you get deformed photoshopped babies.
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''Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom'' is a 1990 ArcadeGame by {{Toaplan}}, starring the eponymous guys made of snow, who trap enemies in big snowball that are then used to crush other wandering enemies with. The game is divided into 5 stages made of 10 floors each, with a boss every 10th floor which can be damaged either by pelting it with snow (but it takes a long time) or by bashing it with the snowballs made with its minions.

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''Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom'' is a 1990 ArcadeGame UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by {{Toaplan}}, starring the eponymous guys made of snow, who trap enemies in big snowball that are then used to crush other wandering enemies with. The game is divided into 5 stages made of 10 floors each, with a boss every 10th floor which can be damaged either by pelting it with snow (but it takes a long time) or by bashing it with the snowballs made with its minions.
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* BossArenaUrgency: The final boss of the original arcade is a very interesting example. There are two giant stone heads on each side of the screen, a small platform surrounded by flames in the middle and a descending ceiling full of [[SpikesOfDoom spikes]] right above that. The heads continuously blow bubbles which can have enemies or power-ups inside, and these pop if they touch the spikes. The player has very little space to move, and the more the ceiling goes down, the faster the enemies can get him... of course, this also means that he can throw many more snowballs against the heads, but he is forced to think and act much more frantically.

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* BossArenaUrgency: The final boss of the original arcade is a very interesting example. There are two giant stone heads on each side of the screen, a small platform surrounded by flames in the middle and a descending ceiling full of [[SpikesOfDoom spikes]] {{spikes|OfDoom}} right above that. The heads continuously blow bubbles which can have enemies or power-ups inside, and these pop if they touch the spikes. The player has very little space to move, and the more the ceiling goes down, the faster the enemies can get him... of course, this also means that he can throw many more snowballs against the heads, but he is forced to think and act much more frantically.



* CueTheSun: [[http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/S/snowbros.htm The ending of the first arcade]].
* DistressedDamsel: The princesses Nick and Tom have to rescue. In a funny twist, after you defeat the final boss in the Genesis version, Nick and Tom get kidnapped and the girls (who have the same snow-based powers as them!) have to go through another 20 floors (present only in this version) to reach and defeat the true FinalBoss.

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* CueTheSun: [[http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/S/snowbros.htm The ending of the first arcade]].
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* DistressedDamsel: [[DamselInDistress Damsels in Distress]]: The princesses Nick and Tom have to rescue. In a funny twist, after you defeat the final boss in the Genesis version, Nick and Tom get kidnapped and the girls (who have the same snow-based powers as them!) have to go through another 20 floors (present only in this version) to reach and defeat the true FinalBoss.



** Actually you can use a frozen enemy to allow yourself to reach the unrecheable platform and hit the sumo enemy a few times. It will then dissapear and leave a japanese-card-thingy that can be collected for points.

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** Actually you can use a frozen enemy to allow yourself to reach the unrecheable unreachable platform and hit the sumo enemy a few times. It will then dissapear and leave a japanese-card-thingy Japanese-card-thingy that can be collected for points.
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* EdibleCollectible: The bonus items are various kinds of sushi rolls.
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* WorldMap: In Snow Bros 2.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The most likely one is ''Nightmare in the Dark'', an obscure coin-op that came out 10 years after Snow Bros., featuring a hunchback who engulfs enemies in balls of fire instead of snowballs (other than this, the gameplay is exactly the same). ''{{Tumblepop}}'' is also pretty similar.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: The most likely one is ''Nightmare in the Dark'', an obscure coin-op that came out 10 years after Snow Bros., featuring a hunchback who engulfs enemies in balls of fire instead of snowballs (other than this, the gameplay is exactly the same). ''{{Tumblepop}}'' is also pretty similar.
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There's nothing more to be said, it is a simple but addictive game that received a few ports, a couple of obscure sequels and that gets often compared to VideoGame/BubbleBobble, even if it's not really the case.

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There's nothing more to be said, it is a it's an EliminationPlatformer with simple but addictive game gameplay that received a few ports, a couple of obscure sequels and that gets often compared to VideoGame/BubbleBobble, ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'', even if it's not really the case.
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* DualBoss: The birds in floor 30, the devils in stage 40 and the last boss. Chameleons in [=SB2=]. ''[[{{Doom}} Cacodemons]]'' in [=SB3=].

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* DualBoss: The birds in floor 30, the devils in stage 40 and the last boss. Chameleons in [=SB2=]. ''[[{{Doom}} ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Cacodemons]]'' in [=SB3=].
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** Actually you can use a frozen enemy to allow yourself to reach the unrecheable platform and hit the sumo enemy a few times. It will then dissapear and leave a japanese-card-thingy that can be collected for points.
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There's nothing more to be said, it is a simple but addictive game that received a few ports, a couple of obscure sequels and that gets often compared to BubbleBobble, even if it's not really the case.

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There's nothing more to be said, it is a simple but addictive game that received a few ports, a couple of obscure sequels and that gets often compared to BubbleBobble, VideoGame/BubbleBobble, even if it's not really the case.
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* BigRedDevil: Well, more like Small Red Devil (for the mooks) and Big Green Devil (for the bosses).

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* BigRedDevil: Well, more like Small Red Devil (for the mooks) {{Mooks}}) and Big Green Devil (for the bosses).
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''Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom'' is a 1990 ArcadeGame by {{Toaplan}}, starring the eponymous guys made of snow, who trap enemies in big snowball that are then used to crush other wandering enemies with. The game is divided into 5 stages made of 10 floors each, with a boss every 10th floor which can be damaged either by pelting it with snow (but it takes a long time) or by bashing it with the snowballs made with its minions.

There's nothing more to be said, it is a simple but addictive game that received a few ports, a couple of obscure sequels and that gets often compared to BubbleBobble, even if it's not really the case.

!!The game and its sequels provide examples of:

* BigRedDevil: Well, more like Small Red Devil (for the mooks) and Big Green Devil (for the bosses).
* BossArenaUrgency: The final boss of the original arcade is a very interesting example. There are two giant stone heads on each side of the screen, a small platform surrounded by flames in the middle and a descending ceiling full of [[SpikesOfDoom spikes]] right above that. The heads continuously blow bubbles which can have enemies or power-ups inside, and these pop if they touch the spikes. The player has very little space to move, and the more the ceiling goes down, the faster the enemies can get him... of course, this also means that he can throw many more snowballs against the heads, but he is forced to think and act much more frantically.
* BreathWeapon: Some enemies breathe fire.
* CueTheSun: [[http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/S/snowbros.htm The ending of the first arcade]].
* DistressedDamsel: The princesses Nick and Tom have to rescue. In a funny twist, after you defeat the final boss in the Genesis version, Nick and Tom get kidnapped and the girls (who have the same snow-based powers as them!) have to go through another 20 floors (present only in this version) to reach and defeat the true FinalBoss.
* DualBoss: The birds in floor 30, the devils in stage 40 and the last boss. Chameleons in [=SB2=]. ''[[{{Doom}} Cacodemons]]'' in [=SB3=].
* ImMelting: What happens to the bros if they touch fire (it goes without saying).
* AnIcePerson: The bros.
* InNameOnly: ''Snow Bros 3'' is a typical Korean rip-off with a new hero, a horribly ugly dwarf or something that turns enemies into giant footballs and rolls them. The game seems to be made [[http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/png/snowbro3.png about the 2002 Korea-Japan World Soccer Championship]], but has nothing to do with it either.
* InvincibleMinorMinion: A sumo fighter that appears in stage 3 in unreachable parts of the floor, shoots some fireballs from his hands and disappears when all the other monsters in the floor are defeated. It can't be hit, so it is unclear if it's actually invincible.
* LightningCanDoAnything: The intro of the Amiga version shows that the Snow Bros were regular snowmen brought to life by a bolt of lightning.
* NameAndName: Nick & Tom.
* RiseToTheChallenge: A couple of stages in Snow Bros 2, making it even shorter.
* ShowsDamage: Every boss in the first game starts to spurt blood (!) after having been damaged enough.
* {{Snowlems}}: In the end, that's what the bros are.
* SpiritualSuccessor: The most likely one is ''Nightmare in the Dark'', an obscure coin-op that came out 10 years after Snow Bros., featuring a hunchback who engulfs enemies in balls of fire instead of snowballs (other than this, the gameplay is exactly the same). ''{{Tumblepop}}'' is also pretty similar.
* StalkedByTheBell: If you take too long to complete a floor, a jack o'lantern will appear. If you still don't kill all enemies, the evil pumpkin will spawn an invincible ghost relentlessly tracking you.
* AWinnerIsYou: The game spells "Thank You : Game End", and then cues to the same shot of laughing enemies you get after having lost all lives.
* WorldMap: In Snow Bros 2.

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