How were you introduced to Smash bros ?

[Syrek]

For me it was the legendary N64 commercial. From that point on, I was a Smash Bros. fan through and through. I actually remember recording my matches with a VHS tape cause the matches with my friends and family were just so entertaining to watch again and again. Even if I didn't see the commercial, the very thought of playing as my favourite Nintendo characters and beating the crap out of them with other Nintendo characters would be more than enough for my child like mind to instantly want the game! ^_^

 

[ghastmine]

Well I don't rember where I got melee cause I've had it for so long but I think it was a game I got for my GameCube which I know was before 05 so I'll guess 03 (mainly since I have most of the older games and best sellers) but I played melee for a long time and my cousin got brawl when it basically first come out. So of course I always tryed getting brawl but it costed alot -_- so anyways skip forward a few years later to present time and after being pissed off with the ****ing gta 5 community I decided to come back to the smash community (since honestly this community acts mature compared to them)so I got news of project m since at the time I finally got brawl back so I actually got project m later. So then news of a smash tournament for the 64 happened so this year was also the start of my competitive side and I played 64 and mained fox. So currently I'm gonna get the wii u version day 1 and before I go on break in December I'm gonna get a 2 ds and smash bros for 3ds. So right now I'm improving competitive skills and making sure to get every smash bros game. So in short I was introduced by cousins and finding it.

 

[Mysteltainn]

Smash 64 many years ago is where it started for me.

I still remember it so well, back in the days when the N64 was in its prime. I remember my older brother used to rent games from time to time, and one day I went with him and we walked in. Moments later, my brother came up to me holding the Super Smash Bros. display box and said "hey, check this out man! This game looks amazing! I think you can use Nintendo characters to beat the crap out of each other!". We were beyond intrigued, to say the least, and so we rented it. We brought it home and my brother invited a few of his friends over and we ordered a pizza, popped 'er in, and played. We were in awe when we saw a playable Yoshi, Ness (everyone being unlocked due to previous renters of course), Captain Falcon, Donkey Kong and Kirby... Pikachu too, it was just so strange for its time. Although we were all guilty of thinking Samus was a bloke since none of us played Metroid before then.

Been playing it ever since.

 

[Cherubas]

It's kind of a funny story actually. Waaaaayyyy, back in the day I used to get my gaming info from video game magazines. I believe it was EGM where I first saw Smash Bros (I know it was one of the big game magazines, but I'm pretty sure it was EGM). Anyway, I saw the screenshots, read the details, and nearly passed out right there in the store. I've ALWAYS loved any kind of crossover thing, and this sounded almost too good to be true. To my horror I slowly realized that I was reading it in the April issue. Every April EGM would publish a few fake stories hidden amongst the real, and something like this seemed so out there that I just knew this was one of the fake ones. I was so mad when I put that magazine down.

...Of course when it all proved to be true, you can bet that I had that game on the first day.

 

[AIM0001]

Seen the hilarious commercial for Smash 64 and was a big fighting game fan growing up so I was instantly appealed. The experience at the time was like no other Nintendo game back then. I knew after 64 and Melee that this series is going to be around for a very long time.

Also playing a fighting game without health bars and instead using damage percentage. Mix that was great characters and nostalgia and you got yourself another Nintendo classic that puts them in a league of their own.

 

[FireYoshi360]

When I first played Brawl, I didn't even know who Link was. XD

 

[the8thark]

All of the people who have SSB for WIiU or 3DS as their first don't like this poll. Also Smash 64 as your first is totally different to Melee as your first.

My first was Smash 64. I bought it back in the day and I liked it but I didn't think much of it. I bought Melee later on and that was the game that made me love SSB as a series. I really think Melee was the first true SSB game.
(Just like Mega Man 2 was the first true Mega Man game).

 

[aldelaro5]

I ended up being introduced when I bought Paper Mario Thousand Year Door and Melee in Toys R Us before the Wii lineup came up, I thought I would Paper Mario would be the better experience, boy was I wrong..

It's funny that you mention this because I cannot disagree with this...

Here's the thing: I did got introduced with ssbm, but it didn't for just that series.

I won't go in details this time with how much i told before, but I can tell you that it introduced me to see video games as a form of art. I realised years after I played that ssbm was very detailed and seeing where come from where the elements was just outdtanding for me. In no way I tough a game could be that well tough and detailed like this, it introduced me to how to appreciate video games to their best.

Which is why I have to tell ssbm was my best game, it was my foundations. So, if I have to compare my experience of ssbm and TTYD both enjoyed on first playtrough, TTYD didn't even reach the half of ssbm fun. SSBM is impossible to have a better experience because I learned so much and was introduced to so much stuff that it was only possible to get that much surprise by mostly knowing nothing and learning. TTYD was surprising on stuff I already learned and never will I learn more than ssbm.

Especially the audio, man menu 1 got engraved in my head. I heard this music more than a 1000 time for sure and I still like to hear it again. I'm still hyped while listening to the fire emblem music and it's just one of those game that their quality will never gets old trough time.

I feel it'simportant to say that with how much I praise TTYD, it's my second best game. The first is locked as long as I play video games and I have to mention it because I really got after that SSBM is the only game that changed my life for the best...

 

[PACT_hacker]

A good friend of mine introduced me to Melee the same day I helped him in SMSunshine. We were 9 years old back then. Dude used to destroy me with his Marth, but now we're pretty much even.

 

[YoshiandToad]

I'd just moved across the country and was trying to make friends. I'd never been into Nintendo, having been brought up on Mega Drive(or Genesis to some of you)...a pair of twins invited me around to play video games after hearing I quite enjoyed Sonic games and was interested in this 'Pokemon thing' that was sweeping the nation, and they introduced me to Smash 64.

This is the moment I got heavily into videogames. The moment I started liking Yoshi, and the moment I made a pair of best friends who went on to be the best man and usher at my wedding back in May, 15 years on from that fateful day.

We still meet up every week to play Smash bros. together even now. Melee introduced me to my other two best friends, and thus Smash is more important to me than any other game purely for those bonds it caused to form.

 

[Mechageo]

I was introduced by the N64 commercial where they're all wearing costumes and beating each other.

 

[darthnazgul]

It was Melee. Back then I didn't read any gaming sites or many magazines back then, so a lot of my purchase decisions were made by browsing covers at game stores. So when I saw freaking Mario going up against Pikachu on Melee's cover, I knew I had to get it.

 

[TheGingerRussian]

My first Smash was Brawl, and I got it back in '08 shortly after I got my Wii and Mario Party 8. I got it because it had Mario and Pikachu on the front, didn't really care about anyone else. Now, being about 9 at the time, I didn't fully appreciate everything the game had to offer. I religiously played a terrible Mario, and my brother, who really likes Luigi played as Mario's green alt because we could never beat Ness after a versus match. (Yeah, we really sucked)

Shortly after getting internet access (this was about one and a half years later, mind you) I began a grand hunt for Gamecube games, after coming to the sudden realization that the Wii could play them. Among the games I bought, Melee was one of them. Unfortunately, I thought Melee was severely lacking in comparison to Brawl, and my 10 year old mind missed the fancy CG cutscenes. To this day Melee is my least played Smash. Not because I don't like it, but the fact that my brother was my only opponent bored me greatly.

Finally, I purchased 64 on the Wii Virtual Console. And I have to say, 64 just has a charm to it that I really like. Though I don't play it as much as I'd like to, it was the first Smash I unlocked all the characters on. (Though that's not really saying much)

Over the years I got better (not good, but better) I unlocked everyone in Brawl, found a love in Lucas because Brawl Mario is... not the best iteration of the character, to say the least.

And now, at the ripe old age of 15, I can proudly say I bought a Smash game at launch, largely in part to my birthday being October 3rd, but whatever. And can proudly say I am 'decent'. I have returned to Mario in Sm4sh due to Lucas' absence.

TL:DR I sucked at Smash, sucked at Smash a bit more, got slightly better, found a main, had him ripped from my cold dead hands, and returned to Mario.

 

[Tino]

One of my cousins introduced me to Smash Bros. 64 and when I played it for the first time, I had a really fun time with and she would later let me borrow it from time to time in exchange for one of my games. I would then become a huge fan of the series to this day.

 

[TheGoldMan]

I'm a late guy. I started off with Brawl in Christmas of '08. My parents had given it to me along with a Wii that I got that same Christmas. I didn't even know what the hell Smash Bros even was

 

[LoveGame]

Went to a friend's house back in Kindergarten, day after Smash 64 came out. I messed around with training mode as Pikachu and Jigglypuff, then watched me friend play a bit of 1P Game. Pretty much immediately decided I wanted it at that point. *sigh* I feel old...

 

[KirbySS44]

My first game was Brawl, I was a huge Kirby fan when I was young so any game with Kirby in it I would buy it.

 

[wizardto1]

You see around 2009, I was a little kid and a big Mario fan. I would go to the Mario Wiki to found out all suchs of stuff. I saw some article titled 'Super Smash Bros. Brawl' and I was intrigued. From there I would look at Brawl's website to what it is all about. It wasn't finally around year later that I finally watched a video on it and continue to later. I was hesitant to buy it because of the Teen rating as was around 10-11 at the time and was actually scared of the rating. My mom finally brought it a year later when I finally got over the rating.

 

[RamOne]

I was introduced to Melee by a friend in 2002 I think it was. First game I played was as Bowser, I think, despite having no idea who he was at that time, at Rainbow Cruise. Coincidentally, my brother bought Melee a little while later.