Super Smash Bros. (series)

Super Smash Bros. (大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ, Great Fray Smash Brothers), officially referred to as Smash Bros., SSB, and Smash, is a series of fighting games published by Nintendo, featuring characters from franchises established on Nintendo systems.

The series had a successful start in 1999 with Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64. It achieved even greater success with Super Smash Bros. Melee, released in 2001 for the Nintendo GameCube, becoming the best selling game on that system.

The third instalment, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, was released on the Wii on January 31, 2008 in Japan, and was released on March 9th, 2008 in North America.

The fourth and fifth instalments were, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U; in North America, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS was released on October 3, 2014 and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U was released on November 21, 2014. Masahiro Sakurai has directed all five games despite HAL Laboratory handing the series to a new developer for Brawl.