In VS., a player is given re-access to previous mountains once all 48 of them are cleared.
Endless Game: Played with, as the stage layouts don't actually repeat until mountain 32 is cleared.
Edible Collectible: Four stolen vegetables are dropped in the Bonus Stage top part of each level, and can be recovered for points.
Drop the Hammer: Nana and Popo's weapons of choice are hammers, which they can use to either bop birds or seals/yetis over the head or smash the ice floor above them to jump up to it.
Death Throws: Nana and Popo's death animations involve them getting thrown offscreen.
The first 24 have a blue mountain peak while the latter 24 have a red peak.
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The 48 mountains in "VS." are split into two sets.
The condor doesn't hurt you at all and must be collided with to get your bonus.
Collision Damage: What every enemy is limited to except for the polar bears and the condor.
gives access to the "Super Bonus Stage" where the platforms are much smaller and gaps are plenty.
Brutal Bonus Level: Clearing eight mountains perfectly in a row in VS.
Bears Are Bad News: Waiting too long to get to climb to a higher layer will cause a polar bear to appear and stomp the screen upward, which risks you of losing a life should you be near the bottom of the screen.
In VS., there's also a large butterfly flying on top of the second set of mountains.
Big Bad: The Condor that keeps stealing their vegetables.
Air Borne Mook: Pink birds that dive bomb the players.
Ice Climber increases the number of mountains from 32 to 48, has a new bee enemy, some levels feature wind, and players can select any mountain they want. This work shows examples of the following tropes (put all references to Super Smash Bros.