It is a rearrangement and mash-up of several songs from the game Ice Climber, including a piano variant of the games title screen with a vocal part from the Ice Climbers themselves ('Hey guys this is the Ice Climbers Well, all you have to do is get rid of your friends and. While the game was quite popular in the mid 1980s it is more well know today by Popo and Nana inclusion in the Super Smash Bros. The song 'Ice Climber' is the default song used for the Summit stage. Japan received a release on the Family Computer in 1985 and a port of the Arcade version with the additional features was released for the Famicom Disk System in 1988. The game was released as one of 18 launch titles for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America. After the bonus round is completed the player will advance to the next, more difficult level. At the top there will be a bonus stage which, if failed, will simply lose the chance to earn points rather than dying as is the case with. Atop of the eighth level is a bonus stage where players are provided 40 seconds to collect vegetables, climb to the top of the bonus section and grab onto the condor for bonus points. Ice Climber is an early NES title that can be played with 1 or 2 players, and 2 players can be competitive or somewhat cooperative.Players are Eskimos wielding mallets who try to ascend the mountain to the top, getting past obstacles on the way. Each mountain has eight defined levels that players must scale in order to complete the stage. Players take control of characters Popo and Nana in an effort to scale 32 ice-covered mountains to retrieve stolen vegetables from a giant condor. The Condor flies in with them hanging off its feet, then they jump off. Cries while wiping their faces, referencing the screen seen when failing a bonus stage in Ice Climber. Nana hides behind Popo, only showing her face as Popo shifts from left to right.

The arcade version differs slightly from the home console version by the addition of an animated title screen, a stage select menu, 16 additional mountains and incorporating occasional blizzard and wind effects. Both jump up and down (their victory pose from Ice Climber). Nintendo developed an adaptation of the game for the arcade as part of their Vs. Ice Climber is a vertical platforming video game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.

Ice climber stage