The Origin Of Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate recently launched on Switch with 74 characters, more than 100 stages, and a soundtrack featuring more than 900 songs. Despite the massive scope of the series today, the franchise emerged from meager beginnings, starting as a passion project from a three-man team at Kirby and EarthBound developer HAL Laboratory. Satoru Iwata and Masahiro Sakurai, the co-creators of the Kirby series, began development on a prototype fighting game in 1996. According to an Iwata Asks inter...