Thin Ice

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Description

In this quirky arcade game, you play Duncan the penguin, who enjoys skating on thin ice--especially around the other penguins. The goal of this game is exactly that: to skate around the other penguins, dunking them into the frigid water while consuming tasty shrimp cocktails (to make him go faster). Duncan has to watch out for the evil seal and polar bear, who both like to bat Duncan about! If you can manage to sink all the penguins, you move onto the next level--where even more penguins await to be dunked.

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Alternate Titles

• "Duncan's Thin Ice" -- Working title
• "Arctic Squares" -- Early proposed title

Part of the Following Groups

• Animals: Penguins
• Gaming Service: Game Room
• Setting: Arctic / North Pole

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Critic Reviews

TeleMatch	Intellivision	Sep, 1983	1 out of 6	100
The Video Game Critic	Intellivision	Mar 31, 2009	B	75
All Game Guide	Intellivision	1998		70

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Trivia

An Olympic connection

Intellivision's marketing department spent a lot of money to become an official sponsor of the 1984 Winter Olympic Games. Having done so they realized that they did not have a Winter Olympic game to sell so Thin Ice became Voochko On Ice, Voochko the wolf being the game's mascot.

Inspiration

Thin Ice was based on the 1982 Data East arcade game Disco No. 1.

Music

This was the first game to have a soundtrack by legendarily-prolific composer George Alistair "the Fat Man" Sanger, a hook-up facilitated by his being roommates with the brother of Blue Sky Ranger David Warhol (here credited with "Sound Effects/Additional Music").

In honor of this humble beginning, in 2000 the Fat Man composed and performed a surf arrangement of the theme to this game, "Surfin’ on Thin Ice."

Trivia also contributed by Psionic

Related Web Sites

• Thin Ice at Intellivision Lives! (Info and history on the development of the game)
• Video review of the Intellivision and some games (WARNING: Language) (The Angry Video Game Nerd, James Rolfe, reviews the Intellivision and some games, including Thin Ice.)