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It has now been 15 years since HAL Labs and Nintendo released Super Smash Bros. on the N64. Since then two more sequels have been released first in 2001 with Super Smash Bros. Melee and then Super Smash Bros. Brawl in 2008. Of course this year we're expecting the fourth game in the series, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS to be released with great fanfare in the near future.

Smash Bros. has always been fairly kind to the Metroid series. The first game included Samus as a fighter, a position that Samus has maintained for every subsequent game. In Brawl, Samus would be joined with Zero Suit Samus as the second playable Metroid character. The games would also feature a variety of stages, mostly taken from Super Metroid, but also later taking locations from Metroid Prime and Metroid: Other M.

A big point of contention for the series has been role of Ridley. Ridley has appeared in every game in the series, starting as a minor component of the Zebes stage in Smash Bros., to becoming two different bosses in Brawl. Ever since Ridley appeared battling Samus in the opening movie of Melee, fierce debates have enveloped the internet about Ridley's chances of being playable. Lives are still lost to this battle on this very day.

Whatever the future of Smash Bros. is, whether the two Samus's remain the only reps, or if she is joined by Ridley or Anthony Higgs, the sky is limit. The last fifteen years have been amazing, and her is to another fifteen years.

--James Pierce