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VS. Ice Climber has been re-released for the Famicom Disk System, removing the difficulty settings and changing a few graphics to be closer to Ice Climber (such as the bee and butterfly replaced by a Nitpicker and blue Condor, respectively).

It has also been released in the Arcade Archives series on Nintendo Switch, although the bee enemy has been removed.

Appearing in 2001's Melee and 2008's Brawl, their return was planned for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U but technical issues with the 3DS version required game director Masahiro Sakurai to scrap development on them to maintain parity between the two versions.

It could be played in the Japanese-exclusive Nintendo 64 version in its Nintendo Space World 2000 demo, or by using a special Controller Pak given away as a sweepstakes prize through the June 2001 issues of magazines such as Famitsu and Nintendo Dream.

In Japan, Game Machine listed VS. Ice Climber in its April 1, 1985, issue as the eighth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.

Appearing in 2001's Melee and 2008's Brawl, their return was planned for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U but technical issues with the 3DS version required game director Masahiro Sakurai to scrap development on them to maintain parity between the two versions.

VS. Ice Climber has been re-released for the Famicom Disk System, removing the difficulty settings and changing a few graphics to be closer to Ice Climber (such as the bee and butterfly replaced by a Nitpicker and blue Condor, respectively).

It is also unlockable in the GameCube releases; it can only be officially unlocked via a North America-exclusive e-Reader card, or as a gift to players requesting their save data be transferred from the Nintendo 64 version to the GameCube release.

He said that their inclusion in said game was low-priority because the Ice Climber series was "unlikely to have another installment" at the time.