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In 1999, Nintendo and HAL Laboritores. (The makers of the Kirby games) decided to make an original fighting game starring all of Nintendo's most famous characters: Mario, Link, Donkey Kong, Samus, Yoshi, Kirby, Fox, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Captain Falcon and Luigi . . . It was a major success!!
The game sold very well, and so, they decided to make a sequel.
Enter Super Smash Bros. Melee.
The sequel to Super Smash Bros. was unveiled at Nintendo's Press Conference the day before the E3 2001 show. Were they showed a video demonstration of the game, it got tons of applause.
Super Smash Bros. Melee will be a GameCube launch game in the US on November 5th, along with five other first-party Nintendo games.