A while back, I got a Wii, and it's great fun. And one thing that is really nice with it, is the Virtual Console, where you can buy old games and play them on your Wii. I got myself the old classic Ice Climber a while back, and it's really really good, just as good as I remembered :D Sometimes when playing retro games, you end up a bit disappointed, as you remembered it better than it really was. Not so with this one! You use the Wii controller turned sideways, so the buttons are at about the right place, which is nice.
It's amazing how much fun, and how compelling, a game can be though using only a handful of basic elements. Ice Climber have the platform jumping (obviously) with the added mechanic that you knock off the blocks making up the platform above you when you jump. Sometimes you need to do that, as there's no other way to get higher up. There's some sort of ice trolls that push around new blocks to fix the holes you make, which can be quite annoying, there's birds and icicles to watch out for, and there's both indestructible blocks and treadmill blocks which will move you right or left.
The objective is dead simple: get to the top. The game is particularly fun in two player mode, as it gets a bit more competitive, but it's still good fun as a single player experience...
I can highly recommend it, as it's good value for the few Wii points it costs.
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