If there's one classic Nintendo game a lot of people are still playing on a regular basis, it's the 2001 title Super Smash Bros. Melee on the GameCube. It took the series to new heights, thanks to its faster and frantic gameplay and featured more characters and modes than its predecessor. To this day, it's still a hit at major tournaments.
Now, to kick-off the weekly events this year in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Nintendo is paying tribute to Melee with a special tournament. It starts today and will run until 6th January, and will only include fighters, stages, and items from the GameCube release. Here's the ruleset:
Format: Smash
Rules: Time
Time Limit: 2:30
FS Meter: On
Items: Med
And here are the available fighters, items, and stages (thanks, Japanese Nintendo):
Fighters:
Peach, Bowser, Ice Climbers, Sheik, Zelda, Dr. Mario, Pichu, Falco, Marth, Young Link, Ganondorf, Mewtwo, Roy, and Mr. Game & Watch.
Items:
Smash Ball, Poké Ball, Container, Food, Maxim Tomato, Heart Container, Super Mushroom, Poison Mushroom, Super Star, Warp Star, Metal Box, Bunny Hood, Beam Sword, Star Rod, Home-Run Bat, Hammer, Lip’s Stick, Ray Gun, Fire Flower, Super Scope, Bob-omb, Motion-Sensor Bomb, Green Shell, Freezie, and Mr. Saturn.
Stages:
Battlefield, Princess Peach’s Castle, Rainbow Cruise, Kongo Falls, Jungle Japes, Great Bay, Temple, Brinstar, Yoshi’s Island (Melee), Yoshi’s Story, Fountain of Dreams, Green Greens, Corneria, Venom, Pokémon Stadium, Onett, Mushroom Kingdom II, Brinstar Depths, Big Blue, and Fourside.
Will you be participating in the first Smash Bros. tournament of 2020? Leave a comment below.
[source japanesenintendo.com]
Comments 22
That Melee Character Selection Screen looks really good In HD.
Edit: never mind
Give us pokefloats, and then we can talk about Melee.
Why is Final Smash meter on?
Time to offend half the population
Melee is a broken and super aged game that has so many flaws as a competitive game and has no right to be this popular today
That's nice. [MANDATORY COMMENT END TO MEET NL GUIDELINES]
I love how the Smash ball made it in. 🤨
Even the small character portraits in that image resemble their Melee counterparts. Awesome.
@PBandSmelly Melee had Young Link. It was flawless. Then Ultimate came out and now it has no reason to exist anymore
They completely ruin it by having Final Smashes on.
Same with the Smash 64 event.
What a waste of time.
@PBandSmelly - BUT THE MECHANICS AND SOLID COMMUNITY!
@PBandSmelly
Who are you to decide what‘s supposed to be popular or not? The game is still fun to play and it works just as fine as it did back when it was released.
Yay, these tournaments are super fun. It’s nice way to have some variety gameplay. It feels like everyone in Quickplay just wants to play 1-on-1
"Let's pay homage to Melee. Oh, by the way, even the items we've chosen are from Melee!"
How can't we love daddy Sakurai?
@Paraka At this point it's hard to deny that the Melee elitist are better than the people who complain about Melee. This is proven by the fact that top Melee players play Ultimate without crying about it like you guys do.
@PBandSmelly "Time to offend half the population." As you're offended by people enjoying something you don't.
@Emob - Then... What exactly are you doing?
GCN VC confirmed.
@Paraka Acting like you guys.
So wait, they took out the Smash 64 characters that were in Melee?
@Emob - So essentially proving the point of the mockery. Cool.
I'm surprised we didn't get any Spirits of the many stages that are in all of the games, as there were some that were shown as trophies in Smash Melee (like Princess Peach's Castle and Battlefield)
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