Super Smash Brothers Melee for the Nintendo GameCube is still one of the most popular and played games of all time. In the game, players play as one of 26 characters who fight using different moves specific to their character and the original Nintendo game that they are from. Smash Bros, or Smash as avid fans call it, has gained a very competitive fan base with players participating in tournaments since the early 2000’s. Since it’s release in 2001, the game also has become a point of technical analysis for game-play, with techniques like wavedashing, l-cancelling, shield dropping, etc. While not the very first game in the Smash Bros series, with other games on Nintendo 64, Wii, and WiiU, Melee has stood the test of time as the most perfected of the four games, not including a mod of Super Smash Bros Brawl called Project M which mimics Melee physics while containing the Brawl platform.
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