NES Games No One Played: FIRE 'N ICE (Nintendo Entertainment System Review)

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FIRE 'N ICE ► The NES retelling of the classic tennis rivalry between John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg simplified to look like a wizard who puts out fires with his magic ice blocks.

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FIRE 'N ICE | 1993
Similar Games: Solomon's Key, Puzznic

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After years of focusing on the best games for the NES, I decided to change gears and focus on lesser known cartridges that have, for one reason or another, generally escaped the public discussion and general nostalgia. This series highlights many of the relatively unknown, obscure, and unloved titles in the Nintendo Entertainment System's library. Some of these games are at best mediocre. Many are painfully bad, some of the worst NES games around. Most are hilarious for all the wrong reasons! Occasionally, OCCASIONALLY, a handful of them are actually good, borderline hidden gems.

While you won't find any of these on the NES Classic, some of these titles have managed to make their way onto the Nintendo Switch, so if you don't have an original Nintendo console or ROMs escape you ethically or technologically, there are several ways to play them.

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[jamisondonald]

Oh man, my cousin and i randomly stumbled across this one and it is bloody great

[nivaldowesley]

i love this game! never heard before the switch online nes library! hooked me for hours! and the boss music is amazing! great review!

[TransCanadaPhil]

I just discovered this game recently when looking for games for my new ZX Spectrum Next computer. I downloaded the Spectrum version that came out around 2003 and I'm finding it fantastic.

[elementfrost]

Highly addictive is an understatement. This is an amazing game.

[josephbradshaw]

Puzzle Games! I think I'm going to love them, 10 mins later I'm glancing over at Contra and Guerilla War, hearing the siren's call of guns blazing action.

[fantasmaatriste]

i started playin fire n ice for the nes when it came out on the switch online and its super fun!

[novelezra]

I said it in the last ep, but damn making your videos 4:3 makes them so cozy.

This is one of those games that looks like an indie game pretending to be an NES game but is actually an NES game.

[francisreuter]

i think more people know about it since it was put on the nes switch online a few years ago

[ChicagoRetroGamer]

Oh man, I remember renting this once from Blockbuster and I can remember actually really liking it. haha, cheers and great share!

[yorkshiremgtow]

It is truly an amazing game, and one which leaves you dumbfounded with the ingenuity of its puzzles.

[seanmyster]

Just like any frozen treat, Fire 'N Ice should be savored in short bursts, lest you suffer from brain freeze 🥶

[NESADDICT]

I never knew about this game till I collected.

[JonLeung]

0:11 - Fire 'N Ice is available on the NES app on the Switch, however, what annoys me is that for the game selection menu, they use the title screen for Fire 'N Ice instead of the actual box art, so it appears as a different size than the other games. Why would Nintendo have been afraid of being consistent? Is it the "warning label" that would be confusing since there is no cartridge? Were they worried people would be intimidated by it? They could have used the cartridge cover art that doesn't have the warning label then.

[broncosbreaks]

Fire ‘n’ ice got recommended to me 2 months ago by a coworker. I played, and at first, it was dumb. The more I played, the more interested I got when I had to use my brain more. Towards the end, it was very difficult, but rewarding after I beat it. No help, no cheats, and 30000 hours of neglecting my family. Awesome game music, btw!!!

[goatbone]

I love this game, probably because I love the challenge of puzzle games and don't mind a bit of head scratching. I have the Famicom version which has cool artwork that is 90s in a different way than the US release.

[josevillouta]

It’s on Switch NSO NES app. My son plays it sometimes and likes it

[caeserromero]

I'm currently playing Icicle Race on C64 which is a port/clone of Fire n Ice, and I'm frustratingly stuck on world 7 - Round 3. The C64 version is near but not identical. There's an extra block of ice in a line which means when you drop the ice beneath it, you still can't climb up to get on top and finish the level. I was even following a NES Fire and Ice playthrough video and you can see by comparison that the two game maps are not quite identical. That one small details is making it impossible 😟

[MannifyYT]

I saw this game on Nintendo Switch Online and tried it out, and oh my god this game is ridiculously underrated. Currently on 2-9 but i am 100% beating this game!

[therealbitwars]

When I was young my parents told me that fire was naughty but I didn’t listen because I know for a fact that Fire ‘N’Ice

[mccarseat]

You hit the nail on the head, I like this game, but man does it get mind numbing after playing for a bit.