Ice Climber

Description

Maneuver the Eskimo to the top of the mountain, hammering through levels of ice blocks, riding moving floors and passing clouds. Avoid the flying bird, the snowmen who push ice around to filling the holes and the other hazards like falling ice, random heavy wind and a polar bear. There is a bonus level at top of each mountain.

Ice Climber was produced by Nintendo in 1984.

Nintendo released 106 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1970. Nintendo was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Nintendo during the time period Ice Climber was produced include: Mario Bros., Mario Bros. (PlayChoice), Tennis, Donkey Kong 3, Donkey Kong Junior, Excitebike (PlayChoice), Vs. UniSystem, Balloon Fight, Baseball, and Duck Hunt

Specs

Name	Ice Climber
Developer	Nintendo (Japan)
Year	1984
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8176
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Platform
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Nintendo Vs.
Dipswitch Settings	Ice Climber Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - HammerJump
Sound	Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Ice Climber KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

On rare occasions, falling onto the head of the other player will cause you to be forced through the floor of the level. If this happens on the bottom floor, you will lose a life.

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Cabinet Information

The game uses the standard generic Nintendo Vs. UniSystem artwork and color scheme.

Conversion

All the Vs. games can be converted by swapping the ROMs, daughterboards, or other custom chips on the board. The Vs. Dualsystem architecture allows two games, serving two separate monitors, to be played from the same board.

Miscellaneous

The title screen of this game just says "Ice Climber" but it is a Nintendo Vs. System game.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Ice Climber Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 20 known instances of this machine owned by Ice Climber collectors who are active members. Of these, 5 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 13 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There are 3 active VAPS members currently looking for Ice Climber. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Ice Climber circuit board set.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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