Snow Bros (Arcade & NES) - Snowballs Flying Everywhere! - Winter Level Wonderlands - Episode 3

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Snow Bros. (1990)

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In the spirit of the Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, and all other extended work-related vacation in December holidays, I present to you our Winter Level Wonderland series! In this short series we will be playing around with a series of winter-themed retro games. So grab some cocoa, warm up the fireplace, and settle down for some gaming nostalgia. Today, I present to you...

Snow Bros
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Bros

Snow Bros. (スノーブラザーズ Sunō Burazāzu) is a 1990 platform arcade game released in 1990 by Toaplan. The gameplay of Snow Bros. is similar to Bubble Bobble, released in 1986. The game supports up to two players, with each player taking the part of one of two snowmen, Nick and Tom. Each player can throw snow at the enemies. The player must throw snow at each enemy until it is completely covered and turns into a snowball. An enemy partially covered in snow cannot move until it shakes it off.

Once an enemy has been turned into a snowball, the player can roll it. The snowball will rebound off of walls until eventually shattering against a wall. Any enemies the snowball rolls into are eliminated and other stationary snowballs start rolling when the rolling snowball touches them. If the player manages to take out all of the enemies with kicking one snowball (this one snowball may be used to make others bounce around as well and increase the chances to pull this trick off), bonus money will fall from the sky.

Every tenth level there is a boss. Each boss can sustain being hit a number of times. In the Sega Mega Drive port, after the 50th level, you play as one of the snow castle princesses.

Snow Bros. was ported to the Game Boy, Nintendo Entertainment System and Mega Drive. Each version was published by a different company in Japan (Toaplan themselves published the Famicom version, while Naxat Soft and Tengen published the Game Boy and Mega Drive versions respectively), while the NES and Game Boy versions were published in North America by Capcom. The Mega Drive version was released exclusively in Japan.

The NES version, titled Snow Brothers in North America and Europe, was released in November 1991 in North America and December 1991 in Japan. It features a new story sequence at the beginning which depicts an origin story unique to this version in which Nick and Tom are established to be human princes who were cursed into becoming snowmen by an evil demon named King Scorch.

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