The Super Smash Bros. (Japanese: 大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ) series, sometimes abbreviated as Sumabura (Japanese: スマブラ) in Japan, is a series of fighting games published by Nintendo. It features mainly Nintendo characters (with a few third party characters as of the third and fourth entries in the series) and the main objective of the game is to deal damage (measured in %) and knock characters off the screen. The higher % value a character has, the more easier it is to knock them off the screen.
The original idea for the game originated from a prototype called "Dragon King: The Fighting Game" (Japanese: 格闘ゲーム竜王), which Satoru Iwata and Masahiro Sakurai worked on together. Masahiro Sakurai handled the planning, specs, design, modeling and movement and Satoru Iwata handling the programming. [1][2] When this game was in development, there were originally no Nintendo characters until Nintendo approved.
Games
| Name
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North American box-art / logo(s)
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Japanese name
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Console
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Release date(s)
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Relevance to The Legendary Starfy series
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| Super Smash Bros.
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ニンテンドウオールスター! 大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ,
Nintendo All-Stars! Dairantou Smash Brothers
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Nintendo 64
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 January 21, 1999
 April 26, 1999
 November 19, 1999
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No relevance
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| Super Smash Bros. Melee
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File:Super Smash Bros Melee NA boxart.jpg
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大乱闘 スマッシュ ブラザーズDX,
Dairantou Smash Brothers DX
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Nintendo GameCube
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November 21, 2001
December 3, 2001
May 24, 2002
 May 31, 2002
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No relevance
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| Super Smash Bros. Brawl
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大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズＸ,
Dairantou Smash Brothers X
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Wii
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January 31, 2008
March 9, 2008
June 26, 2008
June 27, 2008
 April 29, 2010
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl marked the appearance of Starfy ("Stafy") as an Assist Trophy and Trophy, a Starly ("Stapy") Trophy, as well as Stickers of Starfy, Starly, Moe (Kyorosuke), Chonmagyo, Mattel (Materu), Seiuchi-kun and Herman (Yadokarita)
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| Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
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大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U
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Nintendo 3DS, Wii U
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2014
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Starfy will re-appear, likely as an Assist Trophy and not a character.
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