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[–]darkmooninc 16 points17 points ago

Strange, that doesn't look like Mario Party 1-∞.

[–]Lord--Osis 7 points8 points ago

We had a bitch friend (who we hung out with because she owned a Gamecube and this game) who absolutely had to play as pink Samus. One day, one of us took pink Samus as a joke, she refused to pick another character until we changed. We thought this was funny, and then she unplugged all of our controllers and reset the gamecube, and threatened to have her mom tell our parents if we did it again.

We didn't do it again. Fun times.

[–]loveskimjongil 5 points6 points ago

I had this game. But I didn't have friends to play it with . ;_;

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

i am so sorry

[–]BeautifulCheetah 2 points3 points ago

And despite all that it never left the Gamecube. Honestly what was the longest someone went without this in their system. It found its way back in mine every month no matter what game came out.

[–]mattbrvc 3 points4 points ago

How to play Kirby:

Jump,jump,jump, B+DOWN, fly away, repeat

[–]NotTheEnd216 0 points1 point ago

How to really play Kirby: stand on an edge holding down b, suck someone in, walk off the edge, suicide kill (or live if you're good)

[–]LocustDNA 0 points1 point ago

A better suicide kill is to grab them and use backwards throw (youre facing away from the ledge). Kirby and the other guy go rocketing down. At 30% or more damage, you couldnt break free from the grab. It will kill every time.

[–]therealmikelane 2 points3 points ago

Everyone mocked my choice of character(s) until they were caught between a spam-storm of Popo and Nana frost breath or plummeting down the map encased in ice.

[–]flypaper1001 2 points3 points ago

only if youre a bitch and use the c-stick for smash moves.

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[–]flypaper1001 0 points1 point ago

^ one of those bitches.

[–]Duzq 6 points7 points ago*

I actually have a story about this; my friend would often use Fox, which I believed to be extremely OP (what with the spam B and basically paralyse opponent deal) and one day I dared him to be me with Luigi (we'd used him like three times). To raise the stakes we decided to use some dry ice we read about earlier on the small of our backs on whoever lost, but where were two 13 y/o's to find dry ice? We googled a way to make home made dry ice; salt plus ice held down for two minutes. I lost because of Luigi's retard-banana move, as we dubbed it. I have a two inch scar on my back. (SSBM)

[–]Sharrakor 3 points4 points ago

Are you sure you aren't thinking of the original Super Smash Bros.? Fox's laser didn't have any hitstun in Melee.

[–]Dordo3[S] 1 point2 points ago

<3

[–]Lapid 1 point2 points ago

Friend just sat on the side charging Samus' beam and spamming missiles when we played free for all. He got mad when I started targeting him so I stopped long enough for him to start spamming again. It was a vicious circle of "stop that shit".

[–]Xenxe 1 point2 points ago

more like epic battles that lasted hours with your equally matched friend with marth and roy.

[–]theBadgerJew 1 point2 points ago

I've had a friend flip a game of Apples-to-Apples over out of rage and scream "This is just like Super Smash Brothers!!!!" Then storm out and slam the door. It took a while for the non gamers in the room to realize he was totally serious. This was freshman year of college. Haha

[–]Redundantmoth 1 point2 points ago

To be perfectly honest.. I became better friends with someone once we started delving into the advanced mechanics of the game. Having someone who was at a higher skill level to constantly play with was the best way for us both to improve because going against people who didn't know all of the stuff was almost boring.

[–]APeacefulWarrior 1 point2 points ago

Meh. The TRUE friendship-wrecking game will always be Dokapon Kingdom.

[–]Stylpe 0 points1 point ago

So much backstabbing and asshattery. And the completely imbalanced rewards from the random events. Me and a couple of friends stayed up till 11am one time playing it. That music will haunt me forever.

[–]APeacefulWarrior 1 point2 points ago

I know. So much evil in such a deceptively cute form. I actually saw a grown man reduced to tears by it once.

[–]Djur 1 point2 points ago

If your friendships were "wrecked" by this game then either your friends are pussies or you're a dickwad... or both. Can we please stop upvoting pointless crap like this guys? Please?

[–]NotTheEnd216 1 point2 points ago

It's called a hyperbole, chill out

[–]Vague_Intentions 0 points1 point ago

The only times me and my brother have ever thrown punches at each other is over SSBM. True story.

[–]HeroOfTime_99 0 points1 point ago

This was like a friendship kindler for me and my buddy Brad. We'd have 4 hour Shiek battles just destroyer each other back and forth. I can't wait for him to come visit from NY so we can play again

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

my friend and i still play this on brawl, 1v1s are tense

[–]BEAVERWARRIORFTW 0 points1 point ago

With 100 lives each.

[–]firelights 0 points1 point ago

There was also Mario Party 5,6, and 7 for the same console....

[–]BEAVERWARRIORFTW 0 points1 point ago

And 4

[–]DARKflame34 0 points1 point ago

[–]MrJDMTyte 0 points1 point ago

Oh look, it's this thread again.

[–]dvsboy10 0 points1 point ago

This was my fav smash game well. 1st was best really wii controller messed up brawl

[–]NotTheEnd216 1 point2 points ago

Play it with the GC controller, waaaaaaaay better

[–]oztartan 0 points1 point ago

hahaha me and my mates used to have a strict no jigglypuff rule because of how fucking annoying that rolling move was

[–]dim3tapp 0 points1 point ago

Well, most of my best friends I met through Super Smash Bros. Melee, so I'm gonna have to disagree with you there :D

[–]Dylonias_Monk 0 points1 point ago

Brofist

[–]d4rkl04f 0 points1 point ago

more like awesome 4 hour battles that took all night with the best buds ever. We'd set those lives up to 99, pick a random character and stage, and have at it.

[–]Psypss 0 points1 point ago

Clearly someone never played 4 player 150cc Double Dash. Every blue shell brought me and my 2 brothers and sister closer to destroying each other in an all out fist fight. And banana/ green shell escapades on the final lap of baby park? Us 4 together probably broke 9 GC controllers over that shit.

Still, it was some of the best times we've ever had. Maybe i would feel that way about melee if my sister played with us more, but meh.

TL;DR: DOUBLE DASH > MELEE in my youth.

[–]xilopryce 0 points1 point ago

I met a large amount of friends through this game. One you start playing competitively it is hard to stop.

If anyone wants to see some amazing matches, look up "ssbm Genesis 2 grand finals"on YouTube

[–]neopunches 0 points1 point ago

still playin competitively to this day. it has kept me and my boys close over all those years.

[–]LocustDNA 0 points1 point ago

Anyone use the instakill throw in termina great bay? You know, get a char. with a powerful side throw, go under to the platform on the right, sit there, grab and throw people backwards to their deaths as they bounced off the platform above and plummeted into the depths below... Anyone?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

Thank you for this completely original content

[–]GryffinDarkBreed -1 points0 points ago

No, try Mario Party.

[–]GryffinDarkBreed 0 points1 point ago

Downvotes? Really? There was more hate generated by one game of Mario Party than all of the Smash games ever.

[–]cashmadmoneys -1 points0 points ago*

This game definitely got me into a couple fights with close friends! lol.

Idk if any people on reddit really got into this game, but it has become extremely deep, and fast now!

Here's a combo video to show some of you ex-smashers a dose of nostalgia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYgopUL8kk8&lc=-DYzSnfSPneujnpbhEc1PPJ33wslYw0WQJBu0LDitp8&feature=inbox

[–]vecnyj -1 points0 points ago

The worst is when my friend would be Kirby and just walk off the edge with you in his mouth, spit you out, and then float back to the stage. There is almost no defending against that, it was cheap and I hated him for it.

[–]eff_bawmb 2 points3 points ago

Did that to my girlfriend the first time we played and won the match by that. She won't play with me anymore.

[–]toadturtle3 1 point2 points ago

That's super easy to defend. At anything but very high percents you can spam buttons and wiggle out of it before he can take you down far enough to kill you. Similar strategies work for getting out of DK's grab or Yoshi's egg cheap kill attempts. Not to mention, all those moves are slow, laggy and easily punishable.

[–]vecnyj 1 point2 points ago

What would usually happen is he would immediately go under the ledge (we played on Hyrule Temple), and at that point if you struggled and got out you were still fucked. I'd try to get above him usually, which was pretty effective. Or just ignore him and fight everyone else.

[–]toadturtle3 0 points1 point ago

Then your best bet if he's camping the ledge is to pick someone with a projectile and endlessly hit him from the safety of the stage until he finally realizes he has to fight you honorably.

[–]vecnyj 0 points1 point ago

what i usually do is let him get me once, but don't struggle at all, because then he has to go down with me or spit me out, which will give me enough time to get back to the stage. then i just won't let him get to a ledge. or if I'm Falco i just shoot him.

[–]Dawngaward -3 points-2 points ago

Unless you go to tournaments. Everyone hates me at tourneys because I main Ice climbers. Here's an example of me raping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5eHLWYlJJc

[–]TwasARockLobsta 2 points3 points ago

Nice desynchs.