Nintendo Studios (SSS)

Nintendo Studios is a retired stage on Super Smash Stadium. Played 16 times for nine months in 1978, this short-lived oddity of a stage never quite got off the ground.
==Stage overview==
Allegedly taking place in the boardroom of Nintendo's headquarters in Kyoto, the stage was essentially Battlefield, but with one soft platform, the desk, instead of the traditional three. There was no upper or lower blast zone, so players had to score kills via the sides.
In every known playing of this stage, the boardroom is empty (see #Why it was retired below for speculation as to why...); while St. Clair Publications and Suburban Sprawl Entertainment claimed that a match could happen during a Nintendo board meeting (and thus, that fighters could see faces such as Hiroshi Yamauchi and Shigeru Miyamoto), it's believed that this never happened.
==Changes==
None.
==Why it was retired==
Nintendo has historically been a tight-lipped company (see the temper tantrum they threw on YouTube via copyright claims when people were leaking Super Smash Bros. Ultimate content as a good example!), so the idea of their characters being able to fight in their boardroom while they were discussing potentially proprietary/confidential information related to their upcoming projects, especially in 1978 when they were just starting out in the video game business, severely frightened them. It was also a logistical disaster.
"The Pubs"/SSE tried to get around this by holding the matches when Nintendo's offices were closed, but the time zone differences between Japan and the East Coast of the U.S. often made this unworkable.
Rights issues related to the elevator music may have also been a factor; since the music was ostensibly made by Japanese people for a Japanese audience, it was highly unlikely that they intended for their music to be heard outside of Japan.
==In its own universe==
Nintendo Studios is, obviously, a representation of where Nintendo actually produces its games.