Super Smash Bros. Melee

Its speed and depth made a party fighter into a durable competitive esport.

Released 2001 Developer HAL Laboratory Publisher Nintendo Platform GameCube Genre Platform fighter Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Super Smash Bros. Melee inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Same-Screen Two-Player ~~1972~~Chained Combo Strings ~~1991~~Selectable Difficulty ~~1993~~Graded Analog Input ~~1996~~

The Super Smash Bros. series in this dataset

1999

Super Smash Bros. ~~1999~~

2001

Super Smash Bros. Melee ~~this page~~

2008

Super Smash Bros. Brawl ~~2008~~

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