Here at boskak we have decided to tackle some of those famous nes games that we loved so much while we were growing up (and still do :D). Their addictiveness and pure enjoyment just can not be matched by today’s games (plus you don’t need a killer machine to play them. Just Java and the internet.)
I’ve already tackled Bomberman , and a fellow boskakian is busy with mario bro’s. In the mean time, let us turn our attention to Iceclimber..
Have you ever wondered why Japanese people have this urge to club seals, and kill polar bears?? It’s because of Ice Climber.
Have you ever wondered why children love to jump onto moving things? It’s because of Ice Climber!!
Have you ever wondered why Jacob Zuma and George Bush are such complete and utter losers?? It’s because they didn’t play Ice Climber!
Let us just count the awesomeness of Ice Climber. When you didn’t want to do your home work, what did you do?? You played Ice Climber. When your mom pushed ice blocks over your awesome holes of destruction, what did you do? You smashed her with a large wooden mallet (or atleast you tried). (btw, the music to this game is the shizzle)
Okay, so here is a game that not only encourages seal bashing(USA version), yeti bashing(Japan version), bird bashing and polar bear smashing (you have to wait a while on the same platform for this), but it also supports Terradactyl flying and cloud jumping! How much more awesome can it get??
There is only one down fall to this almost perfect game, and that my fellow readers is the end.. Actually, this is not true. You see the problem with the end, is that there isn’t one!! So it isn’t actually a problem since there isn’t one to have a problem with… Seriously.. WTF?? I PLAY 35 LEVELS OF THIS GAME, ONCE I DIE (on level 37) I FIND OUT THE GAME ACTUALLY ENDS ON LEVEL 32!! LEVEL 33 WAS ACTUALLY LEVEL 1 ALL OVER AGAIN!!! See!! The game just keeps going on FOREVER, AND EVER AND EVER!! You have to give the makers credit though. I mean it is perfect way to dupe little kids into to playing their games for all eternity! Damn Nintendo.. I mean Bomberman at least congratulated you.. But this.. wow.. this just takes crappy endings to a whole new level!
But guys, don’t let that get you down.. It is still a fun game to play 
Below I compiled an awesome list of the main characters in the game.
To play Ice Climber click here.
To find out what Ice Climber is all about … read on..(as read on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Climber)
“The first player controls Popo, a boy wearing a blue Eskimo parka, while the second player controls Nana, a girl wearing a pink Eskimo parka. The only tool they carry is a wooden mallet to carve openings in the ice above and to club enemies. Each mountain consists of eight levels of colorful ice and a bonus stage. Standard, dull ice blocks pose no threat other than an easily disposed of barrier. Ice blocks that appear more square and detailed are indestructible forcing the player to take another path. Darker ice with diagonal lines act as a conveyor belt sliding the Eskimo either to the left or right. Finally, many mountains include cloud-shaped, moving platforms as an additional hurdle. The bonus stage takes place at the peak. With a time limit of 40 seconds and no enemies, the Ice Climbers often face trickier jumps and multiple moving platforms. It is also the only place they can take back their stolen vegetables, most notably eggplants. Collecting all four pieces of corn from the fifth bonus stage is the only way to gain an extra life. At the top of the peak, the condor flies overhead. Grabbing its talons before time runs out gives the player a large bonus.
Enemies encounter on their way up the mountains include the Topi, Nitpicker, and polar bear. Toppies come in two varieties: the seal featured in the Japanese version and the small yeti seen in western copies. While early U.S. releases featured the seal design, they were redone as a more imaginary creature over concerns of animal cruelty (seal clubbing). Toppies are the least threatening of the Ice Climbers’ adversaries. Their aim is to keep the duo from reaching further up the peak by filling in gaps in the ice. To do this, a Topi scouts out a place the player has carved through the floor, runs back to its cave, and reemerges pushing an icicle to fill in two blocks. This process repeats till no more openings on their ice level exist. After a few successful mountains climbed, their speed increases making contact with one all the more likely. The Nitpicker is a small, mountain-dwelling bird that swoops down from icy caves on the edges. Unlike the Topi which is confined to one floor of the mountain, Nitpickers can cross over multiple ice layers. Taking them into account along with moving platforms and sliding ice, timing jumps can be more difficult. The final enemy is the pink-shorts-wearing, sunglass-sporting, upright-walking polar bear. Rarely seen, this enemy can be a big headache if Popo or Nana is hanging too low on the screen and taking too long to advance. Pounding the ice, this enemy forces the screen to move up. If an Eskimo is forced off the screen as well, the player loses a life. “
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