  ==Balloon Fighter== He was NOT supposed to be in this game.  In the Ice Climber's profile on the official site, Sakurai lists some other franchises he CONSIDERED to represent the Famicom spot before deciding on the Ice CLimbers.  They were Urban Champion, Excite Bike, Kuru Kuru Land and Balloon Fight, and he gives the reasons why they wouldn't work.  No one REPLACED the Ice Climbers.   