Popo

A contribution to NinDB Collab 5. It's Popo (ポポ), the male main character of Nintendo's Famicom/NES game Ice Climber (1985, a lesser known arcade version was already released in 1984). Actually, I had to draw the female protagonist and friend of Popo, Nana, too, but was not able to finish it. Fortunately, Wildcat added Nana to make the pair complete. Popo is just taking a break to eat a delicious eggplant. His appearance is based on NES era sprites and artwork rather than his modern Super Smash Bros. series incarnation.

Popo (blue) and Nana (pink) are two adventurous kids dressed in parkas. Their task is to climb icy mountains in order to retrieve stolen vegetables (including eggplants). The mallets they always carry allow them to carve openings in the ice and to attack enemies.

Popo © Nintendo