Super Smash Bros. Melee

Super Smash Brothers Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube is a unique styled fighting game that was originally made to be a fun and casual party game to be played with your friends. For the people that have played this game but are also not aware of the massive competitive community for this game see it just as that, a casual game played for fun with friends. After you discover the in depth community that is behind this game from 2001 you realize a couple of things; This game is way more than what the average person sees, also that this community sees this game as a lifestyle and not just a casual party game. The Super Smash Bros Melee discourse community is what will be analyzed. The findings that I have gathered from visiting this grassroots styled…

Super Smash Bros. For Nintendo Switch, commonly shorthanded to Smash Switch, (スーパースマッシュブラザーズアルティメット, Great Fray Smash Brothers ∞) is the 5th (6th if you count Super Smash Bros For Wii U) installment in the Super Smash Brothers series. Released for the Nintendo Switch, this game was developed with the goal of being the most expansive Smash Bros. game in years, celebrating Nintendo's, Super Smash Bros.', and gaming as a whole. Sora Ltd. and Namco Bandai both are credited as developers for the…

The engraved NINTENDO GAMECUBE on the back has given me motivation to name this a Nintendo Gamecube Controller, although the people of this era most likely gave it a much more unique name. With our knowledge of gaming in these times, this was a very social object, with people using it at large gatherings. As it was found with an old box with the title of Super Smash Bros. Melee, bearing similar markings, we can conclude that it was mostly used in tandem with this object, an ancient video game.…

Mother is the Japanese name for a role-playing video game series that started with Mother on the Nintendo Entertainment System back in 1989 and ended in 2006 with Mother 3 on the Game Boy Advance. Fans in America should know the series by the name Earthbound. The series has become known for its great storytelling, humor, and characters. Despite a bright appearance at most points, the games tend to have very dark undertones involving issues often faced in real life, particularly by children. As…

dude with a gun” (Chriskohler). The developers try shutting down all complaints with the protest that the “average” gamer won’t try to go for the interesting, unique cover, but for what is familiar to the point of over use, all because it’s a woman. Of course, for most instances of sexism in video games, developers usually have a smooth excuse for explaining away their troublesome portrayal of women. In the most recent addition of Super Smash Bros, this very problem crops up with what…

Games like super smash bros have characters like link,fox,samus and kirby. Other games they appear in is with another game franchise is with sonic the hedgehog . The game is mario and sonic at the olympics(www.mariowiki.com). The latest game of the Mario franchise is super Mario odyssey which released on the Nintendo switch and was a game a lot of people were playing. A popular Mario games series is Mario kart(www.nintendo.com). The newest Mario kart game was Mario kart 8 deluxe and the game…

Most games require players to play against others to improve their own skill. Players must learn to properly adapt to their opponent’s habits and strategies, while eliminating their own bad habits and learning new tactics. Certain games, like Super Smash Bros. Melee require lots of technical skill and muscle memory, as well as adaptation. This is a fighting game involving characters on a battle stage. Each character has their own set of moves, and when characters attack each other, their damage…

We all sat around in the small, cramped room. I sat on an old wooden chair, my younger brother sat on the king sized bed alongside my brother. We set up on a small twenty by twenty inch TV that could only have seen if you sat right in front of it. The room smelt faintly of mold and elderly people. I gripped my favorite game paddle, the silver plastic felt cold in my small eight year old hands. The faint sound of the spinning disc could have heard from our most prized console, the Gamecube.…

cousins, Sharlette and Emerald came outside. We then decided to put up the bat and balls, and picked up our bikes and rode around the whole neighborhood for a while. We went around the corner and went to visit our friend Jojo to see what he was doing. Going inside of his house, we played some video games for an hour and then left to go to my friend’s Dareus, Sharlette and Emerald’s house. It was around seven or eight o’clock when we rode into their driveway and put up our bikes. Around the same…