Doubutsu no Mori: Ice Climber (2001)

Developer: Nintendo
Platforms: Nintendo 64
Genres: Platform

The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

An ultra-rare version of the NES Ice Climber distributed via Japanese magazine giveaways for Animal Crossing.

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About

A version of Ice Climber with a special letter from Takashi Tezuka and a Famicom Disk System item distributed on a Controller Pak, via magazine giveaways. It is a very rare item, only two giveaways are documented to have happened, distributing 30 Controller Pak each. It could only be played in Doubutsu no Mori, on its built-in NES emulator.

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.