The Story of Super Smash Bros. 

"Two Competitive Communities that Lived in Peace" > Shows Salem in next cut

Playing games like Street Fighter inspired Sakurai to create Smash Brothers and now over 20 years later, Street Fighter characters are part of the roster. Kind of cool if you think about it.

You missed the part when the project was denied but he still made a prototype without nintendo knowing, then they said yes

Thanks Massive Hero Soccer Guy.

Whoever gave the idea for the random Pichu at the end deserves a raise.

"subspace a disappointment" Bruh, it's the best we've had

I hope after the smash ultimate DLC fighters and stages, sakurai and the rest of the dev team will take a break. Ultimate is a monumental achievement in gaming, and the sales for it skyrocketed. But damn, they all need a break in 2020

This game reminds me of the time dunkey beat sky in smash.

2:48 Inaccurate. In reality, Shigeru Miyamoto rejected their pitch. Satorou Iwata hid this from Sakurai and they continued working on the game. Iwata suggested Sakurai make the characters more recognizable so he did. Iwata secretly pitched the game again and it got approved

Kof started smash bros and Terry is now dlc what a beautiful tribute to Sakurai's original inspiration.

64 : best sound effects Melee : best intro and most competitive game Brawl : best main theme and largest amount of single-player content Sm4sh : best online Ultimate : best roster, and best graphics

Can you just imagine Sakurai winning EVO for King of Fighters? Edit: bruh wtf how did this get to 1k so if anyone is reading this... buy SamSho

Great to see content on smash, i would suggest to anyone outside of the smash scene to check out the smash brothers documentary. It goes deep into the history of how the smash scene was built into what it is today.

“The Story of Smash Bros.” aka the story of Melee and around 7 minutes of the other entries

"While the Subspace Emissary was a disappointment..." Excuse me, WHAT

So are we going to ignore how Sakurai bodyed those people at the arcade...?

Some people are coming into Ultimate from Melee, and Others are coming in from Sm4sh. I came in from Smash 64 and I have no idea how to cope. I'm culture shocked.

9:28 The subspace emissary was easily one of the best things if not the best thing in Brawl! This man has no idea what he is talking about I wish we could have gotten another one for smash 4 and smash ultimate

When they only talk about the one that started it all for like 5 seconds

I really hope that Smash Ultimate will still be nominated for the Game Awards 2019. Sakurai deserves a Game Award more than anyone else I could think of.

10:06 Can we acknowledge that Ultimate has nearly caught up the the lifetime sales of 13 year old game considered very successful in less than 3 months?

Seeing smash 4 feels so weird now

Brawl was probably the worst thing to happen to competitive esports ever, but can we all just appreciate how good of a game it is in general? Competition aside, it was fucking awesome

The 3ds version didn't just hurt characters, sakurai said he slowed down the game in general cause they couldn't keep track of characters on the super small screen, i guess the one thing it helped with is that it makes Ultimate fill more distinct as it has the intended speed he wanted.

The way he mentioned the 5 gods of Melee made it sound like Greek mythology lol. Really liked this video. This series is an inspiration to me in terms of how hardworking and passionate the developers, particularly Sakurai, are about it. He still needs more sleep though...

Ultimate broke all of these, by having sold 12mil+ copies in 2 months. *Best Game of 2019*

The west coast actually initially fought for items to be kept on in melee, but they were eventually overpowered by people in the east.

Alternate Title: The Story of the Most Beautiful Accident in Gaming.

Ultimate will unite both smash communities, hopefully

I am shocked they didnt mention the documentary. Probably the best esport documentary of all time

This series has quickly become my favorite on youtube, the production quality and content is incredible, keep it up!

this video inspired me to try and make a documentary of not only melee but all smash games and the history of it so thank you for this amazing video and a lot of reference for me :D

"Its the ultimate party game" *Sakurai feels satisfied now

i can tell this video took... *YEARS OF RESEARCH*

Only just seeing you uploaded this on my birthday, as a long time smash player this makes me very happy. Thank you.

There is not a single video of yours that I dont watch, even if im not intrested in the game like smash, but you make videos with such passion, i love this channel

Still waiting for the last god story ppmd

Surely I'm not the only one who absolutely love subspace

Honestly, this video was well put together and feels like your telling an ancient legend of some kind. It's, amazing

my god this is a fantastic video. well done. basically the smash documentary, but trimmed down into something that can be consumed in a single sitting.

Watching this today makes the ending so funny

10:00, yeah, but ultimate will pass them soon enough.

Wow this was very well made and informative, even as a competitive Smasher I learned quite a bit

Best video this channel has ever put out... But geez watch the volume changes. Nice, nice, nice, INSANE SCREAMCASTING, nice.

Hate brawl all you want but I grew up with that game it will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart

No mention of Project M at all?

Amazing Video i really enjoyed it thanks!

Props to eastpointoictures!!! I watched that documentary and it has incredible depth in the beginning of this community

Loving the smash content, it’s what I’m subbed for 🤘

This honestly just sounds like a brief recap of the documentary, very heavily Melee focused. A lot of the Brawl>Sm4sh>now Ultimate players have already added further details of Brawl being very popular overtaking Melee during that time. There were actually some Melee players that played Brawl for over a year competitively since the payouts were better than Melee. Brawl def. helped a lot in that EVO situation, it wasn't just a Melee thing it was collective Smash effort. There was definite bad blood between the community, Brawl starting at first and then post Evo Melee retaliated hard esp. after the Documentary released.

"Though the Subspace Emisarry is a disappointment." Save some of whatever you smoked for me.

Wow. Just wow. So much research! New sub, keep up the great work man!

Now we have new chapters to the story of the series. Although these new and recent events have not been well, it will eventually show that we can persevere past tough times.

One genre of e-sports that was (to my knowledge) not featured yet on this channel is Dark Souls e sport. This might sound ridiculous but hear me out. So as many people probably know the souls games have been beaten - though they are harder than your usual games - without taking hits. This community of no hit runners that practice all types of games from Demon Souls to BloodbOrne and of course Dark Souls now have small tournaments on Twitch where they compete. These can be for example who gets hit less (since a no hit run is pretty unlikely) wins the match and proceeds.( if both have the same amount of hits the time is the deciding factor) it is very interesting and something which should be covered on this channel. If you want to look in to this, there is a RU-vid channel called McRapt0r who also posted some videos about this and also all the footage since he is also the host of the tournaments.

Been waiting on this one. :) Thanks.

Keep up the good work guys...luv it!

Now Zero and Nairo have been outed as predators.

Let’s give a moment to realize all the trouble Sakurai went through just to entertain us... He is truly a special man

Thank you for making these videos I am super bored and your videos are so fun to watch

Ultimate is my favorite game of all time. And this series is something that I love to death. The communities is amazing and has helped me with stress and anxiety. Sakari, you have done so much for me. Take a brake. *sniff* I’m crying

This should be called “The Story of Competitive Smash”.

the first three minutes fully explains why Terry is a perfect fit for Smash.

The Score does beautiful videos. As a smash fan I love your channel because I'm also huge into CSGO, Dota, LoL and ect. Every video is fucking sick nasty

Great vid, summarized all sides very well.

pour one out for PM

Take a shot every time you see or hear someone who got outed

Liked and subscribed! I’m entering a tourney tomorrow in my town for Ultimate. Never played Ultimate, but I played the others so wish me luck, it’s next Thursday!

i was waiting for a video like this

“Although Subspace Emissary was a disappointment” Excuse me what

I remember when I got my Wii U, I didnt want it for Smash 4, I wanted it for Super Mario Maker and Minecraft. I got bored of them so I bought Smash 4 and MK8 and those were the only games I really bought. Until Smash Ultimate was announced, then I bought a switch

Great video! Reminded me of the old Icons show on G4.

I love this game series especially ultimate and it has produced many great and funny moments in my life.the time I juggled people with ness up b and snakes side b.all the games ive won with flacon punch.blitzing my dad with sonic then when he respawned I dodged all of his attacks while taunting.

Platformer fighters are my favourite fighting games.

Why did they talk about Melee? Everybody knows it’s not a Smash game.

Super smash bros ultimate was an amazing game that exploded Sakurai you are a legend and i doubt and it will be a long time for any other game besides a smash bros sequel to beat it.

great video. It would be cool i f you make videos about organizations in esports to see how good are or were some of them in all games they got into.

Sakurai putting Terry in Smash Ultimate is just retribution for annihilating that young couple in the arcade back in the day

Smash Ultimate is the best Melee successor.

Very honest and well made video. Definately a keeper

Very happy to see a honest video tribute of the history of Smash Bros and its competitive side, which is not only from a Melee elitist point of view, but which also recognizes that Smash 4 is another important competitive scene with its own merits. And also a video that admits that Nintendo made mistakes in the past, but tries to be forgiven and unite THE big competitive scene of Smash Bros in peace. Thinking about Sakurai maybe finally reaching his main goal with the Smash Bros franchise gives me some tears of joy for him and the futur of the competitive scene. Let's move on but hand in hand now because we're all smashers. :)

9:28 subspace emissary was a disappointment? the hell? that was probably my favorite part of brawl

8:00 was he wearing AirPods?? Time traveler maybe ??

Nice Video. Would love to see more story's of other games like MvC2, Killer Instinct and Guilty Gear.

Good lord, I'm so happy that Ultimate exists and is doing well at tournaments. I love how I can tune in to any random tourney and see players sweeping with Duck Hunt, Piranha Plant, Pikachu, Joker, Zelda, etc etc etc. I quickly and very completely outgrew watching Marths, Jigglypuffs, and Foxes dominate over and over in Melee. Ultimate's roster is so vast and (for the most part) so damn balanced that almost any character is viable, which just leads to more captivating tournaments.

The couple at the arcade be like if they watched this video: damn, we started this?

I’m Wanna See Smash Universality

This video brings back a huge wave of nostalgia.

great work as usual!

SUPER SMASH BROS THE ANIME THE 5 GOD'S OF DESTRUCTION

9:28 this dude just called subspace a disappointment. Bruh

I love every entry of the Smash franchise but each one for different reasons: 1. Smash 64 - For the foundation of this franchise and the combo tournaments, I enjoy watching them. 2. Melee - For the competitive scene, hundreds of memorable moments and very personal E-sport players. 3. Brawl - For the Subspace Emissary, which filled the characters with more life than ever before in their cutscenes. 4. Smash4 - For the first smash game, I intended to play it competitively from the start. 5. Smash Ultimate - For bringing so many things together and hopefully improves over the year even more. I love this series, I love the community and I love to see what's coming next!

I've never been a serious SSB player. But I grew up with Nintendo and was playing the SSB series since the Summer of 1999 on N64 and still to this day on Nintendo Switch in late 2019. I've played and own every installment in order and have memories of each. I may not be a serious player, but I don't mind playing the competitive way every now and then. Some friends of mine are competitive while other just like to kick back and have fun. As for myself, I'm sort of in the middle. I'm passionate about the SSB series and even I smile thinking of all the great memories of the series and how the series has grown. SSB is not just a Video Game. It is a display of Nintendo's history and their IPs as a whole. And with each installment that has only improved. Thank-you Nintendo, for sharing Super Smash Bros with everyone and giving us all such awesome memories to this very day. Long live Super Smash Bros!

I played smash 4 but never knew people played it competitively so much (Don't ask how) I was literally about to cry when I saw the G6 tournaments seeing the coward go wild over upsets, different players winning, ones we never expected to join (Melee players) I really do thank Sakarui for Ultimate and all smash games. If we never had the others Ultimate wouldn't be what it is today. Hope this game last long very long~

Not gonna lie but I think that this video needed a few more "years of research." But seriously I know it was meant to highlight the disconnect of developer and fan base, but there was so much in here that was just skimmed over. Like you mentioned the imbalance of characters like Meta Knight and Bayo, yet showed really simple clips of there potential and didn't really explain why they were broken. Also there was a "mention" of the disconnect between melee and brawl/smash 4 players, but nothing really about how hostile it really got between the two communities. Take the dead meme at the start of this comment for reference. And you didn't even mention all the hate that smash in general used to, and in some cases still gets, from other fgc communities for not being a true fighting game. All and all, it really did hit on the important parts of the games history, and why there was such a difference of opinion between developer and player, yet nothing I felt was really explored all that much to really show just badly this community had struggled over the course of it lifetime.

You know your documentary is gonn a be good when it starts with one of the biggest memes/soundclips.

First 17 minutes is 80% the Melee Documentary, and a few random clips. Great i learned so much.

in a nutshell: nintendo characters and other third parties fighting each other otherwise, better than the prototype sakurai had in his mind

Man too bad that they bullied a 15 year old out of this community for just beating a pro player

Loved it! Great video!

I just love any video with a Samsora clip in it.