Super Smash Bros.

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Description

Super Smash Bros. takes familiar Nintendo characters such as Mario, Kirby and Donkey Kong, and gets them to fight to the death. There are 8 fully-interactive landscapes, with one for each character, with noticeable links to their games. Controls are analogue-based, with different moves executed depending on the direction and how firmly the stick is pressed. Items like baseball bats, Bob-ombs, and healing items drop into the arenas at random, aiding any nearby characters than can make use of them. The game uses a fixed viewpoint which scrolls, although characters are rendered in 3D.

The one-player mode has 14 stages to work through. Up to 4 human players can do battle at once, with team play as well as all-against-all action. Hidden characters are thrown in for good measure, as are bonus rounds, and a battle to the end with a giant hand (you read right).

Playable characters include:

• Captain Falcon* (F-Zero series)
• Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong games)
• Fox (Star Fox series)
• Kirby (Kirby games)
• Jigglypuff* (Pokémon universe)
• Link (Legend of Zelda series)
• Luigi* (Mario games)
• Mario (Mario games)
• Ness* (Mother/EarthBound series)
• Pikachu (Pokémon universe)
• Samus (Metroid series)
• Yoshi (Mario games)
  
  * denotes any characters that need to be unlocked under special conditions first.

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Alternate Titles

• "ニンテンドウオールスター！大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ" -- Japanese spelling
• "SSB" -- Common abbreviated name
• "Nintendo All-Star! Dai-Rantou Smash Brothers" -- Japanese title
• "Kakuto-Geemu Ryuoh" -- Japanese early working title

Part of the Following Groups

• Console Generation Exclusive: Nintendo 64
• Franchise crossovers
• Game feature: BGM / music player
• Gameplay feature: Arena fighting
• Super Smash Brothers series

User Reviews

A great multi-player fighting game!	Nintendo 64	darthsith19 (70)
Best party game ever	Nintendo 64	Matt Johnson (4)
We had soooooooooooo much fun when we were kids	Nintendo 64	Asinine (1006)

Critic Reviews

N-Philes	Nintendo 64	2002	9 out of 10	90
IGN	Nintendo 64	Apr 27, 1999	8.5 out of 10	85
Game Play 64	Nintendo 64	Mar, 1999	83 out of 100	83
Retro Gamer	Wii	Jul, 2009	83 out of 100	83
Retroage	Nintendo 64	Jul 22, 2009	8 out of 10	80
HappyPuppy	Nintendo 64	May 05, 1999	8 out of 10	80
IGN UK	Wii	Feb 04, 2010	8 out of 10	80
Classic-games.net	Nintendo 64	Jul 24, 2020	7 out of 10	70
The Video Game Critic	Nintendo 64	Apr 08, 2008	C	50
Aftonbladet	Nintendo 64	Nov 22, 1999		40

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Trivia

Characters

This is the first time that a collection of Nintendo based characters have been brought together in one game (Mario, Samus, Link, etc.). Super Mario Kart was the first time a collection of Mario based characters was used.

Japanese Sound Differences

The Japanese version has different sound effects. For example, when attacking an opponent with punches and kicks, they sound like "thwaps". As another example, when attacking with the Beam Sword, it sounds a lot like the lightsaber from the Star Wars movies.

Live Event

Nintendo's marketing for the game included Super Smash Bros. Slamfest '99, a live fight between the characters billed as " a no-holds-barred, anything goes, toe-to-toe slamfest", staged at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in early 1999 and streamed via RealPlayer. A photo of the actors alongside their costumes surfaced in 2020 and spread widely, and a few grainy images and event descriptions have been found, however no footage of the event itself is known to survive.

Information also contributed by Alexander Michel.

Related Web Sites

• Wikipedia: Super Smash Bros. (Information about Super Smash Bros. at Wikipedia)