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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 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.

There's nothing more to be said, it's an EliminationPlatformer with simple but addictive gameplay 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.

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

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

!!The game and its sequels provide examples of:
* 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. However, with it set to US or Europe, you get deformed photoshopped babies.
* 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 {{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.
* BreathWeapon: Some enemies breathe fire.
* CueTheSun: [[http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/S/snowbros.htm The ending of the first arcade.]]
* [[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.
* DualBoss: The birds on floor 30, the devils in stage 40, and the last boss. Chameleons in [=SB2=].
* EdibleCollectible: The bonus items are various kinds of sushi rolls.
* EvilOverlord: King Artich serves as the main antagonist in Snow Bros. Special
* ImMelting: What happens to the bros if they touch fire (it goes without saying).
* AnIcePerson: The Snow 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 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.
* 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, Love & Bomb (which is how the twin lizard bosses' names are shown in the Japanese Snow Bros 2)
* 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]]
* 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. Apart from the NES version of the first game, as explained below.
* 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.
* 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, Love & Bomb, Usachin, and Attsuu the Great).
* 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.
* WeddingFinale: [[spoiler: Nick and Princess Puchi Puchi marry at the end of Snow Bros. Special]]
* 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.
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