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The controls feel stiff compared to every sequel, no shielding tech, no L-cancel, no real combo game. It's clearly the prototype and it plays like one.
Game entry
Super Smash Bros.
1999 · Fighting, Platformer · Nintendo 64, Wii · Nintendo
Super Smash Bros. is ranked no. 373 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,731 and 68% of duels won. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the rival it has faced most: 5 duels, 1 wins and 4 losses. Its best standing outside the world ranking: no. 11 out of 259 (Fighting).
World rank
no. 373
ELO score
1,731
Wins
68%
Duels played
317
About Super Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros. is a crossover fighting video game between several different Nintendo franchises, and the first installment in the Super Smash Bros. series. Players must defeat their opponents multiple times in a fighting frenzy of items and power-ups. Super Smash Bros. is a departure from the general genre of fighting games: instead of depleting an opponent's life bar, the players seek to knock opposing characters off a stage. Each player has a damage total, represented by a percentage, which rises as the damage is taken.
ELO progression
Score moved from 1,500 to 1,731 ELO points over the last 170 days.
Head-to-head
Direct record on the most played match-ups.
- against Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 20% 5 duels played · 152 points behind
- against For Honor 75% 4 duels played · 167 points ahead
- against Super Smash Bros. Brawl 50% 4 duels played · 51 points ahead
- against Super Smash Bros. Melee 25% 4 duels played · 82 points behind
- against Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 100% 3 duels played · 268 points ahead
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Super Smash Bros. series ranking
Around this spot
The games Super Smash Bros. sits between in the world ranking.
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The standing
Where Super Smash Bros. ranks
The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Super Smash Bros. stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 11 out of 259 (Fighting).
| Ranking | Position | Games competing |
|---|---|---|
| World ranking | 373 | 5,035 |
| Fighting | 11 | 259 |
| 1990s | 73 | 659 |
| 1999 | 15 | 116 |
The community
The debate
8 comments
lebsack_brown
The controls feel stiff compared to every sequel, no shielding tech, no L-cancel, no real combo game. It's clearly the prototype and it plays like one.
Rowena_2009
Same controller passed around, four of us, maybe 30 minutes before someone rage quit. Good times.
NovaHunter
played this at a cousins house on the floor, four of us fighting over one controler for turns. barely understood the rules and it didnt matter one bit.
BossOwl1995
stiff controls or not this game is why the whole series exists, respect where its due
Save_Gerlach
Say what you want, this is where it all started and it still holds up for me... I keep coming back to it over the flashier sequels, don't ask me why exactly.
Aaron_85
Sienta las bases y eso se nota jugando, aunque el roster tan reducido se siente hoy limitado pa lo que vino después.
GhostByte3
Face à Melee il perd forcément en rythme (même si j'y ai moins joué qu'aux autres), mais l'ambiance de base reste unique.
Ghost_Archuleta
Lo del roster reducido lo entiendo, pero para mí esa simpleza es justo lo que lo hace tan fácil de volver a agarrar.