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Ice Climber

Ice Climber - Japanese Title

Ice Climber - marquee

Name: Ice Climber
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Year: 1984
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Monitor:

  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: Nintendo Vs.
Settings: Ice Climber Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 [HammerJump]

Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard
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Ice Climber Description

Ice Climber was produced by Nintendo in 1984.

Nintendo released 91 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1970.

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

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.

Cabinet Information

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

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

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.

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 9,713 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 7,948 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 129,264 machines (5,739 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 12 known instances of this machine owned by Ice Climber collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines, and 10 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Ice Climber circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member 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 wanted, 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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