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With the goal of scaling a series of skyscrapers using two joysticks (one controlling the left side of the character's body, the other the right) Crazy Climber was the first in a "climbing games" genre which includes Nintendo's 1981 Donkey Kong.
A Japanese-only sequel, Crazy Climber 2, was produced in 1988.
On February 3, 1996, Hyper Crazy Climber was released only in Japan for the PlayStation.
Like Hyper Crazy Climber which released for the same console 4 years earlier, Crazy Climber 2000 was released only in Japan.
The game was released for the PlayStation 4 by Hamster Corporation as the first installment of their Arcade Archives series.
In the Gamest Mook The Best Game, based on a popularity vote of Gamest readers held in 1991 and covering all arcade games in operation up to then, it took 44th place.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the game scored a total of 25 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 15.53 out of 30, as shown below.
In the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu it received 6, 5, 6 and 6, for a total of 23 out of 40.
For this reason, ports sometimes obtained a licence to use the music from JASRAC, as with the X68000 version, and sometimes replaced it with a different piece, as with the Super Famicom version of Nichibutsu Arcade Classics.
There is an official explanation that it was in development for release in 1985, but was shelved in order to secure parts for the shooting game Terra Cresta, released at almost the same time, and that some of its content was carried over into Crazy Climber 2, released in 1988.
Wood Place, founded by staff who split off from Nichibutsu, made a sequel-like title called Firetrap (1986), though it is little known in Japan (it was popular overseas).
With the goal of scaling a series of skyscrapers using two joysticks (one controlling the left side of the character's body, the other the right) Crazy Climber was the first in a "climbing games" genre which includes Nintendo's 1981 Donkey Kong.
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