{"id":1129,"date":"2012-09-25T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T11:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2012-09-25T12:15:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T12:15:06","slug":"my-top-100-81-super-smash-bros-melee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"My Top 100: #81 – Super Smash Bros. Melee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2001 – Nintendo (GameCube)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Back in the late 90’s, I was lucky enough to have access to a satellite dish with American programming.\u00a0 I was able to watch shows most of my classmates didn’t even know existed,\u00a0thanks to having channels that weren’t available north of the border.\u00a0 ZDTV was one such channel, focusing on technology and all the latest gadgets and computer goodies.<\/p>\n

Naturally, they had a few gaming shows to go along with that.\u00a0 GameSpot TV <\/em>was\u00a0the main one, and it had all the latest news from all gaming fronts – including what was happening in Japan.\u00a0 One episode highlighted this crazy-looking N64\u00a0game with well-known Nintendo characters – the “all-stars”, from what little I could distinguish, there was so much going on on the screen – and they were fighting??\u00a0 Donkey Kong beating the piss out of Pikachu…\u00a0 imagine that.<\/p>\n

I excitedly told my friends all about it, and when Super Smash Bros. <\/em>was released in North America\u00a0a few months later, we played it a ton at our Halloween party that year.\u00a0 We played it at other gatherings too, but at those parties, great times were had.<\/p>\n

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