Super Smash Bros. Melee

***Super Smash Bros. Melee***, known in Japan as  is a video game where players can choose from many people from famous Nintendo games and have them fight each other. Players can fight alone or team up with people  against a friend. This game is a sequel to _Super Smash Bros._ for the Nintendo 64. _Super Smash Bros. Melee_ is for the Nintendo GameCube. The following game is _Super Smash Bros. Brawl_ for the Wii.

## Characters

_Super Smash Bros. Melee_ takes 26 characters from many of Nintendo's series. It includes all 12 veteran characters from _Super Smash Bros. 64_, and adds 14 new characters, including Princess Peach and Bowser from the _Super Mario Bros._ series, Princess Zelda/Sheik and Ganondorf from _The Legend of Zelda_, and new characters like Ice Climbers from _Ice Climber_ and Marth from _Fire Emblem_. Some characters seem to play more like other characters who were in the first game, like Ganondorf compared to Captain Falcon.

Sakurai planned to include more characters, including Diddy Kong, Meta Knight, King Dedede, Balloon Fighter, Urban Champion, Ayumi Tachibana, Sonic the Hedgehog, Bubbles, Excitebike, Solid Snake, and Lucas, but did not have time to fit them in. All of them except for Balloon Fighter made it into _Super Smash Bros. Brawl_.

### Default characters

- Bowser
- Captain Falcon
- Donkey Kong
- Fox McCloud
- Ice Climbers
- Kirby
- Link
- Mario
- Ness
- Pikachu
- Princess Peach
- Samus Aran
- Yoshi
- Princess Zelda/Sheik

### Unlockable characters

- Dr. Mario
- Falco Lombardi
- Ganondorf
- Jigglypuff
- Luigi
- Marth
- Mewtwo
- Mr. Game & Watch
- Pichu
- Roy
- Young Link

## Items

Items from different games can fall from the sky, like Poké Balls from _Pokémon_ or Mushrooms from _Mario_. These items can be used in different ways. For example, Poké Balls can summon Pokémon, and Mushrooms can either grow the person whom touches it, unless it is a Poison Mushroom which makes them shrink.

## Stages

_Super Smash Bros. Melee_ has many stages that players can battle on. Most of the stages are based on Nintendo series like _Mario_, _Pokémon_, and _The Legend of Zelda_.

## Home Stages

|Series|Character|Home Stage|All-Star Home Stage|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Super Mario Bros._|Mario|Mushroom Kingdom|Rainbow Cruise|
|_Donkey Kong_|Donkey Kong|Kongo Jungle|Kongo Jungle|
|_The Legend of Zelda_|Link|Great Bay|Great Bay|
|_Metroid_|Samus|Brinstar|Brinstar|
|_Yoshi_|Yoshi|Yoshi's Story|Yoshi's Story|
|_Kirby_|Kirby|Green Greens|Green Greens|
|_Star Fox_|Fox|Corneria|Corneria|
|_Pokemon_|Pikachu|Pokémon Stadium|Pokémon Stadium|
|_F-Zero_|Captain Falcon|Mute City|Mute City|
|_Earthbound_|Ness|Onett|Onett|
|_Super Mario Bros._|Luigi|Mushroom Kingdom II|Mushroom Kingdom|
|_Pokemon_|Jigglypuff|Poke Floats|Poke Floats|
|_Super Mario Bros._|Peach|Princess Peach's Castle|Princess Peach's Castle|
|_Super Mario Bros._|Bowser|Rainbow Cruise|Yoshi's Island|
|_The Legend of Zelda_|Zelda/Sheik|Temple|Temple|
|_Ice Climber_|Ice Climbers|Icicle Mountain|Icicle Mountain|
|_Super Mario Bros._|Dr. Mario|Yoshi's Island|Mushroom Kingdom II|
|_The Legend of Zelda_|Ganondorf|Brinstar Depths|Brinstar Depths|
|_The Legend of Zelda_|Young Link|Jungle Japes|Jungle Japes|
|_Star Fox_|Falco|Venom|Venom|
|_Pokemon_|Mewtwo|Fountain of Dreams|Battlefield|
|_Pokemon_|Pichu|Fourside|Fourside|
|_Fire Emblem_|Marth|Battlefield|Fountain of Dreams|
|_Fire Emblem_|Roy|Final Destination|Final Destination|
|_Game & Watch_|Mr. Game & Watch|Flatzone|Flatzone|

## Tournament Play

_Super Smash Bros. Melee_ has become very popular in tournaments. These tournaments do not use items or most stages, believing that these make the game unfair. In tournaments, however, a lot of characters are not strong enough to win. Some of the best characters for tournaments are Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi, and Jigglypuff.

## Infobox (video game)

- **title**: Super Smash Bros. Melee
- **developer**: HAL Laboratory
- **publisher**: Nintendo
- **designer**: Masahiro Sakurai
- **composer**: Tadashi Ikegami
Takuto Kitsuta
Shogo Sakai
- **released**: **Original release:****Player's Choice:**
- **series**: _Super Smash Bros. (series), Super Smash Bros._
- **genre**: Fighting game, Fighting
- **modes**: Single-player, multiplayer video game, multiplayer
- **platforms**: Nintendo GameCube
- **display**: 480p 4:3