A classic game that never loses its fun value. NEVER.

User Rating: 10 | Super Smash Bros. N64
Ok, everyone probably heard or played SSB, but the original N64 SSB is a revolutionary game. It was released in 99 and mixed platforms with the fight theme and even abolished the usual health system in favor of its famous fall-off-the-stage way. Add to it the countless items, original and different characters and "live" stages and you get many, many combinations.

It is a game in which you can play with friends many times for many hours, and it never gets boring as it is so intense and competitive. And you never stop learning too. Every once in a while i still learn some new tricks or combos even though i played this game non-stop for 11 years. I am sure it is the game I've most played in my life, and i have a reason for it.

I seriously think that the developers had no idea the grandness of a game they were making. They planned for you to play it in a regular way, and to use this Nintendo theme to call attention. I doubt they knew that so many subtleties could be used, and yet, the more you learn the more hardcore and intense the battles are. Everything has its counters and there is no "winning combo" (like in so many (badly designed) fight games), it is a battle of skill.

I've played it with so many different people and i've seen so many different playing styles (there are not bad characters, they are only harder to master. I know jiggly-puff looks horrible and irremediable but it can be a good opponent. It is hard to believe but i have seen it!!) , so many possibilities, so many sub-games that you can invent (like playing with pokeballs only) that i know that this game is special. Even if the developers had not planned for it, they managed to create a game in such a optimal gameplay spot that it transcends a normal, casual game. It is a skill, like playing football or a musical instrument. And of course you reap better rewards the more you play it and if you are playing with skilled people.

For all the fun this game has given me, for so many people it brought together, and for its revolutionary never-ending gameplay i can only give it a big and shinny 10.

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