Super Smash Bros. Melee turns 10 years old this month. Share your memories!

Happy 10th birthday to SSBM!

Alright, so if you're like me, Super Smash Bros. Melee is one of the greatest video games ever made, and arguably the best game for that little purple Nintendo cube. Me, my friends, and my little brother have put so many hours into this game over the last 10 years that it's not even funny. This game will always hold a special place in my heart.

Please, share your memories of this awesome game to celebrate such a great milestone! Tell us your favorite character, your favorite stage, and your favorite memory from this beloved game!

I'll start with mine:

Favorite character: Mewtwo

Favorite stage: Corneria

Favorite memory: While there are simply far too many to share, I think it's best to start with the first one. I'll never forget the day that my older brother bought a Gamecube (June 2, 2002. Yeah, I even remember the date :D ). We immediately went out and rented SSBM since we didn't have enough money to buy a game yet. We got home, opened up the Gamecube, and plugged that sucker in. Then we popped in SSBM, and my world forever changed. My little brother and I played our first match on Corneria. I chose Bowser, and he chose Ice Climbers. That one simple match would begin a 10 year long love for this game.

Share your memories! And of course, go play some SSBM to celebrate!

Favorite character: Bowser

Favorite Stage: Brinstar (if only for the music)

Favorite memory: While spending countless great hours with my family playing this game is a good enough memory, meeting crazy hand for the first time was rather memorable since it caught me off guard whenever the action stopped and he showed up out of nowhere. I didn't know how I unlocked that battle at the time (strangely enough I was playing as Peach when that happened).

Favorite character: fox/marth

Favorite stage: Corneria

Memory: hmmmm just playing hours upon hours of this game with friends.

Fav character: Marth, but I also enjoy using Falco and Sheik

Fav stage: Congo Jungle

Fav memory: Winning my first tournament as a kid

Fav Character is probably jigglypuff. I always loved the abiblity to steal the other persons move for a bit. silentnightmere

The character you're thinking of is Kirby.

Fav character: Pichu (yeah :D) also played a lot with link and samus

Fav stage: Probably Temple and cornelia

Fav memory: Playing this game for first time at my friend in Belgium, he also invited two of his local friends to play so melee was actually the first game I played with three other persons at the same time= AWESOME.Oh and finally beating giga bowser for the first time, that boss was just insane!

i have none...never found anyone to play with..

Could someone remind me what that mission is called where you have to defeat something like 1000 of those generic purple characters in order to unlock someone else? I think it was an event match, but I cannot really remember. It used to drive me insane.

Favorite character: Samus

Favorite stage: Big Blue

Favorite memory: Reaching somewhere around 750 kills in Endless Multi-man Melee. THAT GUITAR FROM MULTI-MAN MELEE 1...:cry:

OMG that's crazy 10 years old! I still have the game so many good times.

Favorite Stage: Brinstar and Pokemon Stadium

Favorite Characters: Captain Falcon, Fox, Mewto, Young Link, Sheik,Samus and Roy

Favorite Stage: Great Bay

Favorite Character: Young Link

Can't really remember anything specific but I used to play it a lot with my brother

Favorite Character: Link or Roy

Favorite Stage: Corneria

Best moment: playing the game :P

Favorite Character: Pikachu

Favorite State: Hyrule Castle

Like you TC, my favorite memory of this game involves the first time I ever played it. I went to a Christmas party at one of my dad's neighbor's house and my little brother was really good friends with one of their kids. I remember getting off of work from McDonalds and going over there, and there were like 6 or 7 kids ranged 6 to 17 in the basement playing the gamecube my brother's friend just got. He received waverace bluestorm and SSBM, and while all the adults got wasted and stuffed their faces, us kids smashed until probably 1am or so. It was simply awesome and so much fun, however I didn't get up getting a Gamecube for about another year and I didn't end up getting SSBM for about another year after that. Still, the game sits snuggly in my game library and I love popping it in from tike to time and getting some sweet nostalgia from playing it.

We never played the original, by the time it came out, all of my friends and me had moved on to Sega Dreamcast. I didn't have Gamecube last-gen, I actually bought my Gamecube only a couple years back. So when I first played it, I was a noob playing at someone else's house where he and his friends played it constantly. So naturally, I got my butt handed to me as any noob does in that game. So my first few experiences in the game were sour, and I didn't like it. Heck, most of the time I was playing, I was still trying to just kick their butts and thought being knocked off the edge was "cheap". At first, I didn't even realize getting your enemy knocked off the edge was the goal.

But now that I own my own Gamecube I picked up Melee for cheap and have really enjoyed it. Great fighting game, and fantastic fan-service to longtime fans of Nintendo. I especially loved the addition of the adventure mode (or whatever it was called) where you actually played through platforming levels with your fighting-character.

Could someone remind me what that mission is called where you have to defeat something like 1000 of those generic purple characters in order to unlock someone else? I think it was an event match, but I cannot really remember. It used to drive me insane.

Stunneronureyez

Fav character: Marth, but I also enjoy using Falco and Sheik

Fav stage: Congo Jungle

Fav memory: Winning my first tournament as a kid

[QUOTE="silentnightmere"]Fav Character is probably jigglypuff. I always loved the abiblity to steal the other persons move for a bit. SpikeyAss

The character you're thinking of is Kirby.

Boy that's frightening that it has already been 10 years.Los9090

Yesterday I went and played a round of SSBM after reading about this news. The game is still amazing.

Favorite Charcter: Ness, pikachu

Favorite Stage: Cornia, Pokemon stadium

Favorite Memory: Playing 99 stock battles with Ness against 3 CPUs at level 9. That is how I used to train to best my cousin who also had the game. :P

On SSBM I liked Link, Samus, Fox. But Marth was good to since, he is like one of the better characters......

Favourite character: Ganondorf (standing A for life!)

Favourite stage: Hyrule Castle

There's no moment that's particularly memorable, but it's great just to be able to play the game with some friends at any time and always have a blast.

On SSBM I liked Link, Samus, Fox. But Marth was good to since, he is like one of the better characters......

usermikey

Fox is one of the best characters too.

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On SSBM I liked Link, Samus, Fox. But Marth was good to since, he is like one of the better characters......

SpikeyAss

Fox is one of the best characters too.

I remember playing the game at a friend's hosue. I loved playing as Young Link and Mewtwo. Then I got the game myself, and unlocked most of the stuff for it. However, my data was somehow deleted twice, but I didn't mind. I loved playing the game and still do. Much like Brawl, I will occasionally pop this in to play with friends. (I may even try to get my GF into Super smash Brothers. I'll have to go easy on her though. :p) I love the game to death, and that love will never die. There are too many memories.

Just because I can say this, I think Melle and Brawl are about equal in terms of quality, but in different ways.

Favorite Character: Donkey Kong or Link

Favorite Stage: DK Jungle Japes

Favorite Memory: I first played it at a friends house during his birthday party. We were all having somewhat of a tournament, and I sucked at first. After everybody else left, I started practicing until I could beat everybody there just about. Had so much fun I stayed up just about all night playing it... A few years later I got the game for Christmas, which is another great memory.

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[QUOTE="usermikey"]

On SSBM I liked Link, Samus, Fox. But Marth was good to since, he is like one of the better characters......

silentnightmere

Fox is one of the best characters too.

I sort of, always felt that Marth & Roy (mostly Marth) were almost unbeatable if the opponent player was good them due to their counter move. Wether it was a ranged attck. or physical hit...

[QUOTE="silentnightmere"][QUOTE="SpikeyAss"]

Fox is one of the best characters too.

Superzone

Yea it was wild as hell. Ahh How I miss this game.

Anyone else dislike the roster replacements that brawl gave?

metwo > lucario

roy > ike and marth

imo pichu and dr mario were cool

toon link > young link though

Anyone else dislike the roster replacements that brawl gave?

metwo > lucario

roy > ike and marth

imo pichu and dr mario were cool

toon link > young link though

Banjo_Kongfooie

I do, but in my opinion the additional characters more than make up for it.

Anyone else dislike the roster replacements that brawl gave?

metwo > lucario

roy > ike and marth

imo pichu and dr mario were cool

toon link > young link though

Banjo_Kongfooie

I loved Mr. Game and Watch too !!! I forgot all about him till a few minutes ago. silentnightmere

I never liked his stage though.

[QUOTE="silentnightmere"]I loved Mr. Game and Watch too !!! I forgot all about him till a few minutes ago. SpikeyAss

I never liked his stage though.

Here's his stage .

Favorite Character: Link

Favorite Stage: Final Destination

Favorite Event Match: The one where Captain Falcon has to run.

Here's his stage .

SpikeyAss