Melee’s controls are simple enough that anyone can pickup and play it, but it can take years to master the abilities of any member of its roster. There was never a dull moment in Melee, and it more than earns its title as the greatest fighting game sequel ever made! It’s a party game, that doubles as a dizzyingly complex fighting game. Lead Link through the Mushroom Kingdom! Guide Mario down the dungeons of Hyrule! Take Pikachu for a run across the racetracks of F-Zero! Melee wasn’t just a Nintendo duel for the ages, it was a massive remix of all your favorite games, blended into a glorious collaboration, and garnished with a credits sequence that let you shoot every name that scrolled by, like you were playing Starfox.

Bigger stages, awesome music, an entire Adventure mode where video game worlds collided, Melee was the ultimate gaming remix. With an insane roster of 25 Nintendo All-Stars, dozens of comically punishing weapons, and unparalllelled four-player action, Melee took everything that made the original Super Smash Brothers for the N64 great and turned it up to 11.

Melee wasn’t just the game that made the Nintendo Gamecube a must-own system it’s the game that defined a generation! If you were playing video games in 2001, you played Melee.

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