Super Smash Brothers (N64)

Super Smash Brothers (N64): Nintendo Character Vs. Nintendo character (920 words)
by mad_max - written on 10.08.01 (Very useful, 199 readings)
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OK, I know this game is over a year old, but I finally got a chance to play it recently (I don't get to play many N64 games anymore; no one seems to want to play N64 these days) and just had to review it. Hopefully I can still give you all the information possible, especially considering . You gotta give Nintendo credit for one thing: they have an incredible knack for giving us the unexpected. Like in Metroid on the NES when we learned that Samus Aran was a woman. Like when we were introduced to StarFox, the first 16-bit game to sport 3D polygons. And let's not forget the unforgettable transition from 2D to 3D that Mario underwent with the advent ...

Smash Bros is a multiplayer classic (754 words)
by Tom Christopher - written on 16.05.01 (Very useful, 71 readings)
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I first remember hearing of this game way back in an old issue of N64 magazine (in its glory days), I think they had reviewed the Japanese release. I remember the magazine printing a little form for its readers to fill in if they wanted desperately to see the game released on these shores. Then they would send them off to Nintendo and wait for the results. Who knows whether the publishers actually did, but the point is the magazine must have received literally thousands of these replies, and this is just after one review and a few screenshots. I can remember my 13 year old brother insisting it was going to be the best beat-em-up ever and was getting all his friends to ...

Super Smash Brothers (N64): Wipe the smug look off Mario’s face!!! (549 words)
by Jack1 - written on 02.03.01 (Very useful, 127 readings)
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The person who thought up the idea of smash brothers was a mastermind. The game uses the whole Nintendo crew including characters like Mario, Donkey Kong, Link and so on, fighting against each other in the biggest scrap of the century!!! Once again Nintendo have created a game, which is truly superb!!! It may sound like an ordinary beat em up game but I think it is above that. There is no health or energy bar where when it runs out you die, but instead a damage bar where the more you get hurt the further you fly through the air when hit. When the energy bar gets too high you can be punched, kicked or throw off the edge and fall into oblivion only to come back ...