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Super Smash Bros | 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
Buy Used: $19.75
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Avg. Customer Rating:  350 reviews
Sales Rank: 835
Platform: Nintendo 64
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5 x 3.2 x 0.8
MPN: 87046
UPC: 045496870461
EAN: 0045496870461
ASIN: B00000J2W7
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Great characters: Mario, Luigi, Pikachu, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Link, Star Fox, Yoshi, and more | | • | Simple gameplay | | • | Computer partner option | | • | Colorful arenas |
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Product Description
All of your favorite Nintendo characters have come together to answer the question: who is king of the Nintendo hill? The format can aptly be described as Super Mario Kart meets Mortal Kombat, which makes for an odd, yet addictive game. The object is to throw, punch, smash, or blast your opponents off the edge of the beautifully rendered, themed arenas. Numerous power-ups, weapons, and surprises help or hinder the melee. Your eventual goal is to fight your way through to a bizarre final boss character. Victory in this battle rewards you with another character to play, such as the scene-stealing Pokémon, Jigglypuff.
Editorial Review
All of your favorite Nintendo characters have come together to answer the question: who is king of the Nintendo hill? The format can aptly be described as Super Mario Kart meets Mortal Kombat, which makes for an odd, yet addictive game. The object is to throw, punch, smash, or blast your opponents off the edge of the beautifully rendered, themed arenas. Numerous power-ups, weapons, and surprises help or hinder the melee. Your eventual goal is to fight your way through to a bizarre final boss character. Victory in this battle rewards you with another character to play, such as the scene-stealing Pokémon, Jigglypuff. From Star Fox's laser pistol to Link's hook shot, each character's trademark special abilities are utilized to knock one another off the screen. The game does a great job balancing the characters' widely differing powers so that no one character has an insurmountable advantage. The sound and animations are also dead-on: Donkey Kong is a huge, cartoonish ape, while Link is much more detailed and realistic. And Pikachu's famous thunder shock attack is accompanied by a fearsome yell of "PIKA!" Unlike most fighting games, Super Smash Bros. allows you to team up with a computer partner and take on other teams in both single and multiplayer modes. But the most fun is had when four human players play in a battle royale. The game quickly becomes a scene of incredibly fun chaos: picture Mario beating up on Luigi, while Donkey Kong is chased by a scampering, sledgehammer-wielding Pikachu. It's the perfect party game. --Hugh Arnold Pros: - Great characters: Mario, Luigi, Pikachu, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Link, Star Fox, Yoshi, and more
- Simple gameplay
- Computer partner option
- Colorful arenas
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 Smash Bros. Arrived Quickly - Very Pleased! June 21, 2008
I appreciate how fast this product came to me and was very pleased with the quality of service. Thank you very much!
Super Smash Bros Is Da BOMB! June 19, 2008
This was one of my first video games i played.Its addeticing, great graphics for a nintendo 64 game,all the charaters have diffrent moves and abilites.Theres all kind of wepons and POKO BALLS!I have the ps2, and ps3, and i still play this game.And do u no why,BECAUSE THIS GAME IS SO FUN!
Suprisingly supplies hours of fun! June 8, 2008
Having zero expectations, I found myself trying to beat the game with every character and having fun at nearly every moment.
A Game Which Began a Legacy May 28, 2008
In 1999, Nintendo had never really put all their leading mascots in a game together. They might have had cameos or easter eggs, but they were never playable together. Super Smash Bros changed that. It not only put some of Nintendo's greatest characters up against one another, it invented a completely new style of gameplay for fighting games that is still, to this day, unmatched.
Super Smash Bros had a simple concept to playing. Every character has a series of attacks. Standard attacks, a special attack (usually a projectile of some sort) and an assortment of smash attacks. Not only were characters given a different array of attacks, but there were also a ton of items for characters to grab and throw at each other or use to their benefit. Beam Swords, pokeballs and baseball bats are but a few of the items you can pick up and use against your opponents.
Super Smash Bros continued Nintendo's idea of making games simple and easy to access and play. In most fighting games you need to remember a series of button presses and bring an opponents life gauge down to zero. Super Smash Bros does away with that. There are no complex button presses to pull off different moves. And the object of the game is not to deplete a character's life gauge. Up to four characters can go into a battle. The object of the game is to increase a characters percentage until it gets high enough for you to knock them off the screen. You can either play a stock match in which characters are given a set number of lives and the goal is to survive, or play a time match which is basically a free for all.
It's this simplicity and originality that makes Super Smash Bros fun. There are also a good list of characters to choose from. There are only eight characters to start with, but there are four unlockable characters. There are eight stages and one unlockable.
Compared to its older brothers, Melee and Brawl, there aren't a whole lot of things that Super Smash Bros offers the player. But it's still a fine game. One that introduced concepts that the later games would later evolve. Bringing out more characters and bringing out more level designs. But it's hard to deny that Super Smash Bros is important to video gaming for being the pioneer of this style of party games.
Graphically and sound wise, Super Smash Bros is one of the Nintendo 64's crowning achievements. There's a lot of detail and colors brought out in the game. Not to mention some great sound effects and music that showcase what the Nintendo 64 can really do.
If there was anything wrong with Super Smash Bros, it's the same thing that still plagues the series to this day. The fact that Super Smash Bros is definitely not a single player experience. While there is a single player mode where you fight against certain fighters in different circumstances (Metal, giant, maybe a team) but this isn't nearly as exciting as playing against your friends and pummeling them. Just the same, you can do versus mode against computer controlled characters, but the experience isn't a lot of fun. In the first place, the computer spends much of their time performing the same moves over and over again, and they're just not challenging. Even when the CPU is at their highest level.
Despite this, the game is a lot of fun. It just isn't much of a single player experience. Future games in the series, while bringing in a lot of new modes, never really became memorable for their single player outings either. Super Smash Bros is still a very fun game.
On a side note, however, it's hard to say whether or not the game has really aged well. It's still a fun game to play, but in terms of having bigger and better sequels, the Smash Bros series usually gets better as it goes. As a result, some may forget about the first one all together because the later ones are just THAT much bigger and better. In terms of when Super Smash Bros was released, it was incredible. It's still incredible. It's just one of the few games where later installments can make the first one seem a bit forgettable. Where as other games series have had minor improvements, the jump from the original Smash Bros to Melee was much more than just a tweak. Melee goes all out. As a result, Super Smash Bros can seem a bit more tame to other gamers. That doesn't make it a bad game. If you're curious as to how far the series has come then you might want to pick up the very first Super Smash Bros. It may not be as good as the later games, but it's still an incredible game.
super smash fun May 1, 2008
this game is one of the best games ever. i think everyone should have it
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