History VideoGame / CrazyClimber

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: When the top of the second building is reached, a rather frantic rendition of Creator/ScottJoplin's "The Entertainer" rag is played until the helicopter carries the climber away to the third building. Not all the [[Music/HenryMancini familiar]] [[Manga/Doraemon music]] in the game was public domain, however...

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: When the top of the second building is reached, a rather frantic rendition of Creator/ScottJoplin's "The Entertainer" rag is played until the helicopter carries the climber away to the third building. Not all the [[Music/HenryMancini familiar music]] in the game was public domain, however...

Released in 1980, this arcade game by the relatively obscure company Nichibitsu stood out from other games of the time by not being terribly focused on action and having a fairly sophisticated control scheme involving two joysticks and no buttons. Each joystick controls one of your character's arms and your goal is to scale a large building while avoiding obstacles coming down on you from above, windows closing on your hands to make you lose your grip, live wires, and a giant ape resembling [[Film/KingKong King Kong]] (note that this game predates [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong another game inspired by King Kong]] by one year).

* KillerGorilla: See below.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The appearance of a giant ape resembling King Kong, who tries to punch your character. However, in the UsefulNotes/WonderSwan remake of the game, this particular hazard resembles the Kraken instead.

* LuckBasedMission: In Level 4, a giant Crazy Climber sign repeatedly falls without enough room to dodge it. You can only hope that it picks a favorable random location to fall from, otherwise you simply lose a life.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: When the top of the second building is reached, a rather frantic rendition of Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" rag is played until the helicopter carries the climber away to the third building. Not all the [[Music/HenryMancini familiar music]] in the game was public domain, however...

For a game that you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who's even heard of it, it received a pretty decent amount of ports, remakes, and even legitimate sequels over the years, [[NoExportForYou almost all of which never made it outside of Japan]].

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The appearance of a giant ape resembling King Kong, who tries to punch your character. However, in the WonderSwan remake of the game, this particular hazard resembles the Kraken instead.

* TitleDrop: An amusingly literal example. Starting with the third building, a new hazard in the form of a falling marquee sign threatens the beleaguered climber. The title on this marquee sign? "Crazy Climber." That's right -- if you're not careful, ''you can get killed by the title drop!''

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* YetAnotherStupidDeath: Dying because you paid attention to everything but the window you're holding onto, causing you to get a nasty surprise when it closes on you.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: When the top of the second building is reached, a rather frantic rendition of Scot Joplin's "The Entertainer" rag is played until the helicopter carries the climber away to the third building. Not all the [[Music/HenryMancini familiar music]] in the game was public domain, however...

Released in 1980, this arcade game by the relatively obscure company Nichibitsu stood out from other games of the time by not being terribly focused on action and having a fairly sophisticated control scheme involving two joysticks and no buttons. Each joystick controls one of your character's arms and your goal is to scale a large building while avoiding obstacles coming down on you from above, windows closing on your hands to make you lose your grip, live wires, and a giant ape resembling King Kong (note that this game predates [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong another game inspired by King Kong]] by one year).

* PragmaticAdaptation: As the original arcade game required the use of two joysticks to control the protagonist's climbing hands, the Atari 2600 had to adapt these controls to work with a single joystick controller.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The title.

* FollowTheLeader: The [[VideoGame/Atari2600SpiderMan Atari 2600 Spider-Man]] game bears an uncanny resemblance to this one.

* EndlessGame: Complete the four buildings, and the game loops back to the first with increased difficulty.

* SomeDexterityRequired: The controls, especially by 1980 standards. Keep in mind that the arcades at the time were dominated by the likes of simple and intuitive games like ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'' and ''VideoGame/PacMan''.

Released in 1980, this arcade game by the relatively obscure company Nichibitsu stood out from other games of the time by not being terribly focused on action and having a fairly complex control scheme involving two joysticks and no buttons. Each joystick controls one of your character's arms and your goal is to scale a large building while avoiding obstacles coming down on you from above, windows closing on your hands and thus making you lose your grip, live wires, and a giant ape resembling King Kong (note that this game predates [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong another game inspired by King Kong]] by one year).

* Balloonacy: The second and third levels have a giant balloon you can grab onto to go up 10 windows...[[DownplayedTrope which isn't a whole lot of distance]] considering how massive each building is.

* HardHead: If you hold the joysticks in such a way that you keep the character's hands rooted on safe ground, the falling obstacles will simply bounce off his head without causing the loss of a life.

* NoOSHACompliance: '''The buildings'''. Where do we start? They have hundreds of windows open at a time, a couple of them are shaped in ways that defy gravity, live wires don't get fixed, and obstacles rain down like nobody's business.
* ScoringPoints: What else would you expect from a game of this era? Notably, the giant helicopter at the top of each building doesn't actually need to be grabbed; doing so within the time limit (imposed when the sound effect of the copter plays when you're close enough to the top) only nets you extra points, whereas you can still complete the level if you fail to reach it in time.
* SomeDexterityRequired: The controls, especially by 1980 standards. Keep in mind that the likes of ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'' and ''VideoGame/PacMan'' dominated the arcades at the time, both of which have a much simpler learning curve.

* YetAnotherStupidDeath: Dying because you paid attention to everything but the window you're holding onto, causing you to get a nasty shock when it closes on you.

* NoExportForYou: Most incarnations of the game never made it out of Japan. The exceptions are the original arcade edition and an Atari 2600 port, and a remake called Hyper Crazy Climber which was released overseas as a PSOne classic on PlayStation Network as an import.