Super Smash Bros. (series)
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The Super Smash Bros. video game series started out in 1999 with the initial release of Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64. The original title included 12 playable characters, four of which were unlockable. The eight others consisted of Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus Aran, Yoshi, Kirby, Fox McCloud, and Pikachu. The game was an instant success for Nintendo and its developer HAL, though the series wouldn't become one of Nintendo's most popular until the second entry into the series was released for the GameCube - Super Smash Bros. Melee. The third video game (for the Wii), called Super Smash Bros. Brawl, introduced a full-fledged adventure mode and two "guest" (third party) characters: Snake and Sonic.
The series is best known for featuring Nintendo characters and themes. The characters fight against each other in attempts to defeat the other.
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[edit] Video games
As aforementioned, there are three games in the series as of yet. It has been suggested by the series creator and director Masahiro Sakurai that the third game in the series would be the last that he would actually direct.
[edit] Super Smash Bros.
The original game in the series was released on the Nintendo 64 in 1999. It included 12 characters from various Nintendo video games, including Mario, Pikachu, Link, Yoshi, Samus Aran, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Fox McCloud, Ness, Luigi, Captain Falcon and Jigglypuff.
[edit] Super Smash Bros. Melee
This was the second game in the series featuring a much larger cast of characters including all of the originals, some were still locked others were available from the start.
[edit] Super Smash Bros. Brawl
This is the third game in the series featuring a slightly larger cast then Melee, including a lot of "character replacements" since some of the characters from Melee are gone from this one. The first one in the series to contain third party characters (Sonic the Hedgehog and Solid Snake).
