A hallmark of Nintendo console gaming, beginning with the original Super Smash Bros. for the N64, SSB Melee for the Gamecube, and SSB Brawl for the Wii.
The game is typically simple by Nintendo standards: All of Nintendo’s best-loved franchise players all get together and beat the crap out of each other. Easy enough for a button-masher to win matches, yet there are subtle strategies that you can employ that rewards the player who actually learns the moves.
SSB Melee was released in 2001 and was still on the GameCube charts at the introduction of the Wii in 2006. When my sons convince me to pick up a GC controller, it’s typically for SSB.
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
- The Ars Technica review

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