Ice Climber - 1985 (NES)

ICE CLIMBER アイスクライマー ©1985 Nintendo Version: Famicom (FCS) Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Publisher: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Production: NINTENDO - RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 2 DIVISION (R&D2) Development: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Additional Work: SRD CO., LTD.

KEY STAFF: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Director: Kenji Miki Visual: Tadashi Sugiyama Sound: Akito Nakatsuka, Yukio Kaneoka Producer: Masayuki Uemura Executive: Hiroshi Yamauchi SRD CO., LTD. Program: Toshihiko Nakago, Kazuaki Morita

NOTES: Developed by Nintendo R&D2. Kenji Miki, who took development charge of most of the R&D2 projects, was the game director. Tadashi Sugiyama created the main characters "Popo" and "Nana". The four songs featured in the game were composed by Akito Nakatsuka, who wrote the music in assembly using a sound engine by Yukio Kaneoka. Ice Climber is the first video game programmed by Kazuaki Morita. He considered this a "warm-up" before becoming a main programmer on Super Mario Bros. The same team developed both the NES/FCS Ice Climber and VS. Ice Climber which released a few months earlier in the arcades. The arcade version, VS. Ice Climber, has an animated title screen, a stage select menu at the start of the game and between levels, 16 more mountains, occasional blizzard and wind effects, more enemy characters, and bonus multiplier items. There was a late 1988 port of the arcade exclusive VS. Ice Climber for the Famicom Disk System in Japan. Full Staff List: Ice Climber Credits

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