super smash bros

at my house, we have both super smash bros. (the original) and super smash bros. melee (the sequel). both are played excessively, and many classes have been missed and afternoons spent playing either one. my best character on the n64 version is ness, as the game lags a bit and i can pull his moves off better. in melee, we play on my wii, which has a faster processor and therefore makes the gamecube disc run faster. i can play with anyone almost equally in melee, but i’ll usually play with young link, samus, mewtwo, roy, pikachu, kirby, or ganondorf. playing with different people is always interesting; i had a group of friends back home who hated playing with items. here, items are always turned on the very frequent setting, and sometimes we play with different “sets” that i designed when i played with my sister. one set i called guerilla warfare, consisting of only guns and bombs. another is the pokemon battle, where the only items are pokeballs. those are fun because they end up being fights not to kill each other but fights to get to the pokeball. in melee it’s especially hectic beacuse there’s more pokemon, and no one ever knows whose is whose. in my opinion, both smash bros games are arguably some of the best for their respective systems.