Super Smash Bros (4/26/99)
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Super Smash Bros. is a must have game for the Nintendo 64 and is essentially a fighting game, Nintendo style. It was released in 1999 and it added quite a bit of variety to your typical fighting game while at the same time simplifying things. Here’s the comparisons that matter:
In your typical modern fighting game you have to learn a bunch of different complex control combinations for each character. In Super Smash Bros., the control scheme is the same for each character.
In your typical modern fighting game your environment is typically limited to a relatively small arena, stage or whatever and movement is limited. In Super Smash Bros., the levels or stages are more like a screen from a Super Mario Bros. or another platformer with tons of stuff to jump on to and special items to grab.
In your typical modern fighting game, you are limited to two players fighting at once. In Super Smash Bros., up to four players can beat each other up.
Finally (though there are probably more), most fighting games have their own set of characters unique to that game. Super Smash Bros. lets you play various Nintendo characters from different games.
Super Smash Bros. has become one of Nintendo’s most popular franchises with a new iteration being released on every new Nintendo console (though there hasn’t been one for the Switch yet). The original Nintendo 64 Smash Bros. was released for the Wii Virtual Console in 2009.
