Fun Club How Many Characters in the original Super Smash Bros. did you know when you first played the series?

[TreIII]

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The only one that really tripped me up a bit was Falcon, at first. Then I saw him hop out of the Blue Falcon in his intro animation. I at least recognized that machine from when I played F-Zero with friends in elementary school and it was like "OH, IT'S YOU!"

 

[Golden Darkness]

Everyone but Captain Falcon. I did know F-Zero was a thing, but had no clue about the characters from the game.

 

[Cerlinho]

Just for Fun:
In Melee I didn't know Marth, Roy, Mr. Game & Watch, and Ice Climbers

Brawl: only Snake and Pit. Also, didn't know Wario's WarioWare costume

After this, I already knew everyone from
SSB3DS/Wii U and SSB Ultimate.

 

[Mekanos]

All but Ness. I knew what EarthBound was as an avid Nintendo reader but I didn’t know who the main character of it was.

 

[DittoM]

None except the Mario characters, Sonic and Pikachu. I don’t think I even knew who Link was.

 

[jnWake]

It's a little hard to remember exactly but I think I didn't know Kirby, Samus, Captain Falcon and Ness.

I have very vivid memories of the time when a friend cleared Samus' Classic Mode and we discovered that Samus was a girl. Everyone was like "woah!".

 

[Heron]

This is weird, because I remember getting pokemon yellow at launch (and having already played Red), yet I have strong memories of being introduced to the Pokemon series through Smash Bros on N64.

The release dates say that's not possible.

 

[AstroOhHey]

While I was pretty young, with the original Smash Ness was the only one I had zero clue who they were. With Captain Falcon it was more I knew what F-Zero/the Blue Falcon was and made the connection he was from that. After that I guess Samus was who I had the least connection to; I tried and failed to play Super Metroid as a small child but I still knew who she was.

With Melee I had zero clue who the Fire Emblem characters were, nor the Ice Climbers. Mr. Game & Watch I did understand the reference with as I'd played the Game & Watch Gallery collections for the Game Boy quite a lot. Everyone else I instantly knew.

Brawl onwards I always knew every character who got in, though I hadn't played a Metal Gear game (yet) when Snake got into Brawl.

EDIT: I feel like others have said this before but did anyone else have friends who insisted Ness was a Smash OC who were meant to represent 'the kids who play Nintendo games'?

 

[JazzyFuture]

When I first played Brawl when I was like 10, I knew of quite a few characters games from Nintendo Power, even ones I didn't play like Metroid or Metal Gear or Kid Icarus. However, I distinctly remember thinking the Fire Emblem and Earthbound characters were original to Smash.

 

[Brannigan]

I didn't know falcon or ness and I was only vaguely familiar with super Metroid.

I remember a kid in jr high calling Link and Fox "Peter Pan" and "Robin Hood" but we quickly corrected him.

 

[SRB2KaiZ]

not many people in general know who ness, captain falcon or samus are