In support of this goal, almost every stage is depicted as some sort of floating environment with specifically delineated boundaries (not dissimilar to Soulcalibur). Dealing damage to them will help you accomplish this - the higher your damage level, the farther you get pushed by any given attack, and past a certain point even the cherriest of taps will send you flying. The objective of the game is not to reduce your opponents' Hit Points to zero, but rather to punch them right out of the arena hence the "Smash" in the title. takes a very different approach to combat goals. Though ostensibly a fighting game, Super Smash Bros.
Additionally, starting with Brawl, the series began featuring characters from various third-party companies among the likes of Solid Snake, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man, Pac-Man, Ryu and Ken, Cloud Strife and Sephiroth, Bayonetta, Simon Belmont and Richter Belmont, Joker, Hero, Banjo and Kazooie, Terry Bogard, Kazuya Mishima, Sora, and even Steve.
Game & Watch, the Duck Hunt duo, the Wii Fit Trainer, and even Piranha Plant.
Since then, the roster has expanded to over dozens of major Nintendo characters, such as Bowser, Marth, Pit, Wario, Villager, Shulk, and Inkling, as well as some not-so-major Nintendo characters, like Mr. The first game on the Nintendo 64 began with a small selection of characters from Nintendo's large stable of games, ranging from Mario and Pikachu, to Link and Samus Aran, to Kirby and Donkey Kong, to Fox and Captain Falcon. Super Smash Bros., known in Japanese as DairantÅ Smash Brothers (literally Great Fray Smash Brothers), is Nintendo's and Masahiro Sakurai's very own Massive Multiplayer Crossover Platform Fighter focused entirely on Video Games, both inside and outside of Nintendo's library.