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 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 handled the programming. [1][2] When this game was in development, there were originally no Nintendo characters until Nintendo approved to Masahiro Sakurai's idea of adding them.
Starfy re-appears in the E3 demo of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U as an Assist Trophy with the same behavior as in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but the melody when he appears that plays in Super Smash Bros. Brawl based on the beginning of Confrontation with the Boss apparently does not play.
