Icicle Mountain

Icicle Mountain is a stage in Super Smash Bros. Melee. Announced at E3 2001, It is a stage that constantly moves up or down (mostly up), therefore making it a sidescroller. It moves infinitely up/down, althrough the speed variers. It has platforms that are flat as well as diagonal. There are ice blocks that can be destroyed with one hit, both large and small ones. Many sections of platforms are slippery as they are made of ice. There are also platforms that drop if one stands on them too long. It is the home level of Popo and Nana, the Ice Climbers. Due to its random and battle-unfriendly nature, Icicle Mountain is disliked by most players and rarely used in tournaments.

In All-Star mode, this stage is played on when the player faces the Ice Climbers and any of their teammates.

Origins

The design of Icicle Mountain was heavily influenced by the original Ice Climber game. The game itself was based on the idea of making one's way up the mountain by breaking tiles, riding moving "escalator-like" platforms, and catching clouds as they zipped by while attempting to collect vegetables on the way to the top. These infamous details were removed from Icicle Mountain stage. The only aspects that remain in the level are the moving stage and the bottomless pit.

IceTop

When the game is hacked in the Debug Menu, with cheat devices such as Action Replay, the stage IceTop is found on the list of hackable stages. However, it is only Icicle Mountain without any music. Some people simply edit the audio settings through normal play, disabling the music before playing the Icicle Mountain stage, allowing the same stage mechanics. It is possible that IceTop simply was a test stage to test that function.