Super Smash Bros Melee

Super Smash Brothers Melee is the second installment in the Smash Bros series, released for the Nintendo GameCube, and its top-selling game. It contains substantially more content than its N64 predecessor, and offers new advanced techniques and faster-paced gameplay.

Thoughts

I hold SSBM to be the greatest competitive game ever created - the sheer amount of technical options at any given frame of combat, combined with the balance between execution difficulty and power, is utterly remarkable - even more so when you consider that the game was not specifically intended for competitive play.

Marth has become one of my favorite characters as a result of SSBM; his cold, elegant swordplay is sheer beauty to watch, especially his aerials and Dolphin Slash.