Nintendo Switch: 15 GameCube Games That Must Be On Virtual Console
3. Super Smash Bros. Melee
This deserves a place on this list not just because it sold 7 million copies on a system that sold 20 million. Not just because it was the then highest-selling GameCube title, just edging out the venerable Mario Kart series. Not just because it’s still getting played at eSports tournaments and enjoys a reputation that even three sequels cannot top (if you count the Wii U/3DS split version as such).
Super Smash Bros. Melee was a fighting game that offered depth of content. Whether you’re reluctant to read/hear it being called a fighting game and whether or not you really think it’s more of a party game, nobody can ignore the depth of Nintendo fan service within this one game.
From stage choices and accompanying music to character selection, from multiplayer to single player adventure mode (which, looking back, feels like a warm-up for New Super Mario Bros.) this game celebrated everything Nintendo.
It showed that Nintendo could be playful with its own history and could afford not to take itself too seriously all the time. Special moves and power-ups were a delight and the Master Hand boss was horribly devious.
Plus, Smash Bros. also meant you could finally take two favourite (or hated) characters and make them duke it out, one-on-one. What’s not to like?