If you never had the opportunity to invite a bunch of friends over and beat the hell out of them on Super Smash Bros., then - quite simply - your teenage years were a waste of time. The concept inherent to Super Smash Bros. - at the time - seemed like the stuff of dreams. All the Nintendo characters? In one game? Fighting one another? Who in their right mind made such a thing possible? What's more, perfecting the likes of Mario or Pikachu or Samus Aran or Fox McCloud - so that you could whoop your friends whenever they popped round for a match - could provide gamers with endless hours of entertainment. If the single-player mode lacked punch, Super Smash Bros. provided Nintendo lovers with what is still perhaps one of the most relentlessly fun beat 'em up titles ever made.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
