huntercrunch
Smash Rookie
- Joined
- Sep 13, 2008
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- 16
I know I'm bumping a 2 day old thread, but it really touched me on the inside. I never got into competitive Melee, but I really, really wish I did. Now, I'll share my story... how Melee changed my life. I never met any new friends, went to tournaments or all that. But anyway, here's how it started. Back in 01, I was walking to my next door neighbor and friend, Chris's house, and he was outside at the time. So as I was walking into his house with him, he told me about a game he got for Christmas. "Hey, I got this game with a Gamecube. It's called Super Smash Bros." "That sounds interesting. What's it about?" "It's a game where you pick a Nintendo character and knock other people off the screen. It's really funny, Yoshi has this move where he eats someone and poops them out as an egg." That's all I remember, except we didn't actually play it that day. But that summer, on Chris's birthday, he was holding a tournament at his house. So it was my turn, and I picked Mario. I actually remember my first match, I picked the yellow color, and my opponent was Bowser. We had items on Hyrule Temple. I obviously got owned because I had no previous experience, but I had a wonderful time. It sparked my interest in the game, and I continued to play the game regularly at his house. I remember a couple great times I had with the game, out of several hundred. So the next summer, we were going to go swimming at the lake, and I went over to his house with my brother, and we popped in Melee and had a Pichu only match on Brinstar Depths. We had items on and played on a horrible stage, but we had an absolute blast. Another time a couple friends spent the night at our house and we camped out outside in our tent. We stayed up all night playing Melee, having tournaments, teaming up on CPUs, and having FFAs, and we enjoyed every minute of it. The memories of Melee never end. And what has Brawl done for me the almost near year it's been out? None, zip, ziltch, nada. I can't get my friends to play Melee anymore, they like Brawl more, sadly. I bought Melee October 12, 2007. I had a blast unlocking characters, stages and other things with my brother. The most fond memory of Brawl I have is going with Chris and my brother to GameStop at midnight to pick up our copy of Brawl. So I read this thread, and I literally started crying as my hundreds of memories of Melee flooded back into my brain. Melee isn't just a game. I'm sure we can all agree on that. MUCH more than a game. So please, Melee, never die...... and.... thank you, for the 7 years of fantastic memories.