Finally, many mountains include unbreakable moving platforms resembling clouds. Hatched ice acts as a conveyor belt sliding the Eskimo either left or right. Square ice blocks with higher detail are indestructible, forcing the player to take another path. Standard, dull ice blocks pose no threat other than an easily disposed-of barrier and platform. Each mountain level consists of eight layers of colorful ice and a bonus stage. The only tool they carry is a wooden mallet to carve openings in the ice above and to club enemies. The first player controls Popo, a boy wearing a blue Eskimo parka, while the second player controls Nana, a girl wearing a pink one. Popo scales Mountain 1 surrounded by Topis and a Nitpicker. Nintendo released a version of the game for the Nintendo e-Reader in 2002. Melee for the GameCube brought the game renewed attention. The inclusion of Nana and Popo as playable characters in the 2001 in Super Smash Bros. It 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.
It was originally released in the arcades as part of the VS. In some European countries, Ice Climber was a pack-in game for the NES console. 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. Ice Climber is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the arcade Nintendo VS.