Super Smash Bros.

Percentage-and-ring-out fighting turned crossover brawling into a party-game staple.

Released 1999 Developer HAL Laboratory Publisher Nintendo Platform Nintendo 64 Genre Platform fighter Era The 3D rupture Website smashbros.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

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

Same-Screen Two-Player ~~1972~~Numeric Score ~~1972~~Chained Combo Strings ~~1991~~True Polygonal Free-Look Space ~~1996~~

The Super Smash Bros. series in this dataset

1999

Super Smash Bros. ~~this page~~

2001

Super Smash Bros. Melee ~~2001~~

2008

Super Smash Bros. Brawl ~~2008~~

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