Ice Climber probably would have been better suited for release as part of a compilation of old NES games rather than as a stand-alone product. However, if you aren't a hardcore nostalgia buff, the $20 price tag is a pretty steep price to pay for a game this simple. If you're a diehard fan of Ice Climber, this game is worth picking up. Aside from the fact that the text and backgrounds look slightly squashed because of the GBA's different screen aspect ratio, this is an accurate port of the original NES game. Of course, you really wouldn't want it to, either. The music is still catchy, but from a purely technical angle, it doesn't really live up to today's standards. So, of course, it falls short when compared to current GBA releases, but that's to be expected considering the game is intended to mirror a 20-year-old game as closely as possible. Graphically, Ice Climber appears as it did upon its initial release. This is a pretty accurate port of the original NES version of Ice Climber. But once the bonus game starts, all bets are off, and the first player to reach the pterodactyl gets the points. When playing with a friend-which can be done with only one cart via a GBA link cable-you play cooperatively to ensure that one player doesn't get left behind as the screen scrolls up. Ice Climber includes two-player simultaneous play. Once the bonus game is completed, bonus points are tabulated, and you move on to the next level. Once you get to the top of the main stage, a bonus game starts, where you must hop up another series of platforms and, once you reach the top, grab onto a passing pterodactyl. In Ice Climber, the characters Popo and Nana (Pepe and Nana in the German version), collectively known as the Ice Climbers, scale 32 vertically scrolling, ice-covered mountains to recover stolen vegetables from a giant condor. System in 1984 and the Nintendo Entertainment System console in 1985.

Each of the game's 32 mountains is broken up into floors, so you'll work your way up from one floor to the next, navigating moving platforms, avoiding falling icicles, and busting up enemies with your hammer. Ice Climber is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the arcade Nintendo VS. In Ice Climber, you'll attempt to reach the top of each icy mountain in order to proceed. The name really sums up the action pretty well. Yetis and birds stand in your way as you try to make it to the top of the ice mountain. With link cable support to allow for the game's two-player simultaneous play, this Game Boy Advance version delivers the same experience that NES players first saw almost 20 years ago. This 8-bit game is seeing a rerelease, however, as part of Nintendo's new Classic NES Series. Melee, the game didn't make too much of a splash when it was originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Though Ice Climber has seen a bit of a surge in popularity recently because its lead characters appear in the GameCube fighting game Super Smash Bros.

Ice climber stage