Super Smash Bros. (series)

Logo from Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

The Super Smash Bros. (Japanese: 大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ) series, sometimes abbreviated as Sumabura (Japanese: スマブラ) in Japan, is a series of fighting games published by Nintendo. It features mainly Nintendo characters (with a few third party characters as of the third and fourth entries in the series) and the main objective of the game is to deal damage (measured in %) and knock characters off the screen. The higher % value a character has, the more easier it is to knock them off the screen.

The original idea for the game originated from a prototype called "Dragon King: The Fighting Game" (Japanese: 格闘ゲーム竜王), which Satoru Iwata and Masahiro Sakurai worked on together. Masahiro Sakurai handled the planning, specs, design, modeling and movement and Satoru Iwata handling the programming. When this game was in development, there were originally no Nintendo characters until Nintendo approved.

Games

Name North American box-art / logo(s) Japanese name Console Release date(s) Relevance to The Legendary Starfy series Super Smash Bros. ニンテンドウオールスター! 大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ, Nintendo All-Stars! Dairantou Smash Brothers Nintendo 64 January 21, 1999 April 26, 1999 November 19, 1999 No relevance Super Smash Bros. Melee File:Super Smash Bros Melee NA boxart.jpg 大乱闘 スマッシュ ブラザーズDX, Dairantou Smash Brothers DX Nintendo GameCube November 21, 2001 December 3, 2001 May 24, 2002 May 31, 2002 No relevance Super Smash Bros. Brawl 大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズＸ, Dairantou Smash Brothers X Wii January 31, 2008 March 9, 2008 June 26, 2008 June 27, 2008 April 29, 2010 Super Smash Bros. Brawl marked the appearance of Starfy ("Stafy") as an Assist Trophy and Trophy, a Starly ("Stapy") Trophy, as well as Stickers of Starfy, Starly, Moe (Kyorosuke), Chonmagyo, Mattel (Materu), Seiuchi-kun and Herman (Yadokarita) Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U 大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U Nintendo 3DS, Wii U 2014 Starfy will re-appear, likely as an Assist Trophy and not a character.