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#2. Super Smash Bros. Melee (Gamecube, 2001)
This game is outdated these days, but it holds so much meaning to me for pretty much all of my high school and college life. And yknow so are Guitar Hero 2 and Rock Band 2 but those definitely need to make my list. But I would still play this game with people these days, and I will still love it. It still feels amazing. I think it nailed the game feel much more than the other entries in the series.



For a casual player, the balance felt great. I loved playing pretty much any character. They hadnt yet gone overboard with the items. It had a really good selection of stages without getting overwhelmed. There was a ton of other fun stuff to do-The event modes remain some of my favorite Smash related content. Adventure mode was easily the best campaign mode in the series by a longshot. Id love to see a more fleshed version of that (3DSs was close). It also remains the only game to have my favorite stage in the series (RIP). Home Run Derby is a blast too of course. All the later games may have all these modes, but being the first counts here, this really was a home run for me.



High school was the thing. I probably have more hours logged into this game than any other game Ive played. My friends and I would play this all the time after school, and we each had it, so no matter whose house we were at, wed have everything we need. None of us were pros or anything, we all just loved this game to death. Coming off the N64 game, which I thought was a novel game, and pretty fun, but it wasnt one of my favorites ever, and definitely something I wouldve like to see taken to a fuller extend, and Melee just completely shattered those expectations. The jump from Smash 64 to Melee was absolutely mindblowing , and something no other Smash game can claim. Maybe any game? Just how much more polished, good-feeling, upgraded, fleshed out it takes the cake. Maybe others added more characters or stages or what have you, but to do it on this scale, to go from like 5 to 100 to me was so impressive, that it just hooked us all forever. Wed also eventually do stuff like mess around with the Tournament mode endlessly, try to beat each others Break the Target times, try to get all the in-game trophies (which were always fun to check out the easter eggs for), and set up 99 stock matches featuring 4 level 1 Pichus (or whatever), place bets, and let it run while we did something else, then come back and see who won.



And even into college, I wound up playing this so much. We didnt quite have Brawl yet, so there was still so much more of this, and of course, all my new friends at college were just as in love with this game as much as my high school friends were. And so, even more time was put in. Thus, all the hype for Brawl was so incredible, I loved that time. Even if the game didnt quite deliver fully (I mean it was still good!), I loved that hype around it so much- every day finding something new out about a new Smash game was so much fun.



Just everything about SSBM was so iconic and perfect, and is so memorable, I remember it all so fondly- thats why this game is here. It all triggers good times. And I mean, it has by far the best menu/main theme in the series too. Even though we liked to sometimes reset until we got that alternate music, that original theme is just the best. I still have the Nintendo Power disc of the Live Japanese Philharmonic of a selection of Smash songs sitting in my car, and I love listening to it still. The games intro cutscene still gets me hype like none other.



SUPER SMASH BROTHERS.MELAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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