
Each player has a damage total, represented by a percentage, which rises as the damage is taken and can reach maximum damage of 999%. players seek to knock opposing characters off a stage. series is a departure from the general genre of fighting games instead of depleting an opponent's life bar, Smash Bros. Ness from EarthBound facing Kirby on the Mushroom Kingdom stage, based on the Mario franchise
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Melee which was released for the GameCube in 2001. The game spawned a series of sequels for each successive Nintendo console, starting with Super Smash Bros. It was given an Editors' Choice award from IGN for the "Best Fighting Game", and also became a Nintendo 64 Player's Choice title. It was a commercial success, selling over five million copies worldwide by 2001, with 2.93 million sold in the United States and 1.97 million sold in Japan. received mostly positive reviews upon its release. It presents a cast of characters and locations from these franchises and allows players to use each character's unique skills and the stage's hazards to inflict damage, recover health, and ultimately knock opponents off the stage. series, it is a crossover between several different Nintendo franchises, including Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Metroid, F-Zero, Mother, Kirby, and Pokémon. The first installment in the Super Smash Bros.

It was first released in Japan on January 21, 1999, in North America on April 26, 1999, and in Europe on November 19, 1999. 64 or simply Smash 64) is a 1999 crossover fighting video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. (retroactively referred to as Super Smash Bros.
