The Smash is Back!! A Remembrance with 3DS Video Review

If you think that the fact of engaging your favorite video game characters in battle against each other in one ring is just a figment of our imagination, then you are absolutely wrong. In fact, there is only one video game series that is capable of turning this so-called figment of imagination into reality. And that would be Super Smash Brothers.


This popular and well-loved fighting game series started in 1999 as an original release for the Nintendo 64 video game console. This features Mario and other characters from the Nintendo world battling against each other in different Nintendo-themed video game environments that are suitable for fighting, with each character having its own special moves and attacks. The success of the original Smash Brothers would spawn two sequels where they feature more characters than those in the original N64 classic, namely Super Smash Brothers Melee in 2001 for the Nintendo Game Cube and Super Smash Brothers Brawl for the Nintendo Wii in 2008.

In celebration of its 15th year anniversary, Super Smash Brothers has made its triumphant return to the gaming industry in a new era where it is dominated by next-generation home and portable gaming systems. And we are surprised by the fact that Nintendo has unveiled two Smash Brothers games: one for the Nintendo 3DS and another one for the Nintendo Wii U which will be released in just a few weeks.

I quickly remembered that I once played the original Super Smash Brothers on a Nintendo 64 video game emulator for the PC. Fast forward in 2014, I can still relive the joy of playing Smash Brothers on a portable Android player using an Android-powered N64 gaming emulator. Although I never own a real N64 console, it is clear that Super Smash Brothers has become one of my favorite Nintendo 64 games ever. The sights and sounds of the game made me hooked up to one of the best fighting games of all time, next to Tekken. No wonder it is the most well-loved fighting game in Australia.

I will leave you with two different videos: a video review of Super Smash Brothers for the Nintendo 3DS and the opening sequence of the original Super Smash Brothers for the Nintendo 64 as a remembrance to the legacy of one of the greatest fighting games ever made in the history of video games.