Super Smash Bros., originally released in Japan as Nintendo All Star! Dairantō Smash Brothers (Japanese: ニンテンドウオールスター！大乱闘だいらんとうスマッシュブラザーズ Hepburn: Nintendō Ōru Sutā! Dairantō Sumasshu Burazāzu?, lit. "Nintendo All Star! Great Melee Smash Brothers"), is a fighting game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 home video game console. It was released in Japan on January 21, 1999; in North America on April 26, 1999; and in Europe on November 19, 1999. Super Smash Bros. is the first game in the Super Smash Bros. series; its successor, Super Smash Bros. Melee, was released for the GameCube in 2001.
The game is a crossover between many different Nintendo franchises, including Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Yoshi, Mother, F-Zero, Star Fox, Kirby and Pokémon. It received mostly positive reviews from the media and was commercially successful, selling over 5 million copies worldwide by 2001, with 2.93 million sold in the United States and 1.97 million copies sold in Japan.
Cast
| Image | Character | Jap | USA | Fra | Ger |
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Mario | Charles Martinet | |||
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Donkey Kong | N/A | |||
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Link | Nobuyuki Hiyama | |||
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Samus | N/A | |||
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Yoshi | Kazumi Totaka | |||
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Kirby | Makiko Omoto | |||
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Fox McCloud | Shinobu Satouchi | |||
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Pikachu | Ikue Otani | |||
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Jigglypuff | Mika Kanai | Rachael Lillis | Guylaine Gibert | Mara Winzer |
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Ness | Makiko Omoto | |||
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Captain Falcon | Ryo Horikawa | |||
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Luigi | Charles Martinet | |||
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Master Hand | Jeff Manning | |||
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Narrator | Jeff Manning | Jean-Marc Delhausse | Frank Wölfel | |
