History VideoGame / IceClimber

Players control characters dressed in stereotypical-eskimo gear: player one is the blue-clad Popo, while player two is the pink-clad Nana. The general goal of each level is to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin climb up several layers of ice to reach the top of a mountain]]. Each player carries a wooden mallet which they use to hit enemies, club openings in the levels, and collect power-ups. [[FundamentallyFunnyFruit Like eggplants]]... Just roll with it.

* DeathThrows
* DropTheHammer

* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere

* OneHitPointWonder

* PinkGirlBlueBoy

* AnIceSuit: The player characters wear sensible arctic clothing, the polar bears wear swim trunks.
* BigBad: The Condor apparently since it keeps stealing their vegetables

* HitboxDissonance: When players are jumping.
** To explain. In different platformers, you have to be right on top of a platform when you're trying to land on it. In this game, to get to higher levels, you typically have to slightly overlap a higher platform as you're jumping up in order to land on it.

* OnlyOneName: Popo and Nana. Much like serveral other Creator/{{Nintendo}} protagonists.

!!This work shows examples of the following tropes (put all references to ''SuperSmashBros'' [[Characters/SuperSmashBros here]]):

* FundamentallyFunnyFruit: Eggplants are the first kind of vegetable you can find in the bonus round, and they represent the franchise as its universe's logo in ''Smash Bros.''

* FundamentallyFunnyFruit: Eggplants are the first kind of vegetable you can find in the bonus round.

The game would likely be largely forgotten without the huge boost of publicity generated when Nana and Popo were {{unexpected| character}} inclusions in the ''VideoGameSuperSmashBros'' series, starting with the second game. Uniquely, while the two characters act as a team, generally the player is only able to control one at a time while the AI copies his movements. One can be defeated, but not the other, but a single Ice Climber is at a severe handicap.

The game would likely be largely forgotten without the huge boost of publicity generated when Nana and Popo were {{unexpected| character}} inclusions in the ''SuperSmashBrothers'' series, starting with the second game. Uniquely, while the two characters act as a team, generally the player is only able to control one at a time while the AI copies his movements. One can be defeated, but not the other, but a single Ice Climber is at a severe handicap.

''Ice Climber'' is a vertical scrolling PlatformGame originally released by Creator/{{Nintendo}} in 1984 for the Famicom in Japan, and was later converted into an arcade title in the "Vs." series (as with many early Famicom/NES titles). It was released in North America a year later as a launch title for the NES.

* NintendoHard

Other media to reference Ice Climber include the ''VideoGame/{{WarioWare}}'' series (where it is the basis of several micro-games) and later iterations of the ''{{Kirby}}'' series (where Kirby's ice power-up gives him a parka exactly the same as Popo's). They also tend to appear in fan-works related to ''Smash'' such as ''ThereWillBeBrawl''.

* AlwaysNight

* EverythingsBetterWithEggplants: They are the first kind of vegetable you can find in the bonus round.

Players control characters dressed in stereotypical-eskimo gear: player one is the blue-clad Popo, while player two is the pink-clad Nana. The general goal of each level is to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin climb up several layers of ice to reach the top of a mountain]]. Each player carries a wooden mallet which they use to knock ice into or hit enemies, club openings in the levels, and collect power-ups. [[FundamentallyFunnyFruit Like eggplants]]... Just roll with it.

Enemies include sun-glasses wearing Polar Bears, Topis ([[ValuesDissonance depicted as seals in Japan and yetis anywhere where seal clubbing isn't considered politically correct]]), the bird-like Nitpickers, falling icicles, and vultures.

The game would likely be largely forgotten without the huge boost of publicity generated when Nana and Popo were UnexpectedCharacter inclusions in the ''SuperSmashBrothers'' series, starting with the second game. Uniquely, while the two characters act as a team, generally the player is only able to control one at a time while the AI copies his movements. One can be defeated, but not the other, but a single Ice Climber is at a severe handicap.

* DirectionallySolidPlatforms: The clouds.

Oh, and to be clear, while the game's title is the singular "Ice Climber", the characters are referred to as the plural "Ice Climbers", commonly mistaken for the actual title of the game, even by Nintendo press releases.

* JumpPhysics: Besides the above HitboxDissonance, the Ice Climber can't control their direction of jumping so well once they're in the air. It's tricky, but you can also harm Nitpickers this way by having their mallets hit them as they jump.

* SunglassesAtNight: The Polar Bears
* TheGoomba: The Yeti/Topi will not actively try to attack you. The most they are concerned with is repairing the stages.

''Ice Climber'' is a vertical scrolling PlatformGame originally released by {{Nintendo}} in 1984 for the Famicom in Japan, and was later converted into an arcade title in the "Vs." series (as with many early Famicom/NES titles). It was released in North America a year later as a launch title for the NES.

* OnlyOneName: Popo and Nana. Much like serveral other {{Nintendo}} protagonists.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Waiting too long to get to climb to a higher layer will cause a polar bear to appear and stomp the screen upward, which risks you of losing a life should you be near the bottom of the screen.

The game would likely be largely forgotten without the huge boost of publicity generated when Nana and Popo were TheUnexpected inclusions in the ''SuperSmashBrothers'' series, starting with the second game. Uniquely, while the two characters act as a team, generally the player is only able to control one at a time while the AI copies his movements. One can be defeated, but not the other, but a single Ice Climber is at a severe handicap.

* AnIceSuit

* SunglassessAtNight: The Polar Bears

* SunGlassessAtNight: The Polar Bears

* AirBornMook: Pink birds that dive bomb the players.

* ShrugOfGod: Are they siblings? Friends? Lovers? WordOfGod is that it's up to the players mind.