by staff - 06.05.06

Before Nintendo convinced Masahiro Sakurai to come back and direct the new Super Smash Bros Brawl game, Nintendo had a very different route in mind for the series. Deciding to take the classic franchise in a new direction, Nintendo hoped to draw in older gamers with this decidedly more mature take on the series.
Luckily for us, Sakurai did come back and smacked everyone in the head and put the game back on track. Take a look at the following video to see what could have been.











F*CKING LOL.
omg.kittens - 06.05.06 9:29 pm
Geez I’d watch wrestling again if there was someone that looked like that Pikachu ahahah
SV - 06.05.06 9:34 pm
rofl… hahahaha, perfect. That Pikachu was horrifying. Samus looked exactly like the real Zero Suit Samus too. I love how they worked in the bit with Snake
Pikachelsea - 06.05.06 9:36 pm
LOL! Who knows, maybe these guys are actually unlockables! Thank god the series was saved!
Ton2 - 06.05.06 9:48 pm
hey how and the heck can i get that vid? that was effing greatness!
evldereckx - 06.05.06 9:57 pm
BLEEGGHHHH! Pikachu, Kirby, Mario…thank goodness Sakurai came to save you!
tk - 06.05.06 10:00 pm
Gaaaawd.
Just like Nintendo to stick with the safe kiddie image instead of going with something cool like this.
Nintendo’s such a **** company.
Michael Tucker - 06.05.06 10:01 pm
This is fake.
bubble burster - 06.05.06 10:07 pm
Did Anyone Else Catch Yoshi At The End?
hah..
Nymo - 06.05.06 10:08 pm
hehe, obviously fan-made/modded, but funny nonetheless. WWE presents…Smash bros! hehe.
Grupstra - 06.05.06 10:14 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
NEEKS - 06.05.06 10:16 pm
Awesome.
Renminds me of that horrifying smash Bros. Oekeaki stuff, especially the pikachu and yoshi.
for those who have not yet been graced by it’s presence:
http://tinyurl.com/aw7kh
Rynen10K - 06.05.06 10:23 pm
Yar har har! That’s awesome and ultra creative! Big kudos to the kid who pulled that off.
D
Dejital - 06.05.06 10:27 pm
ROFL, pure freaking genius. I started crying when I saw Kirby.
Red Mage - 06.05.06 10:37 pm
I feel like such a fool for believing that for more than 5 seconds. Pikachu and Kirby are incredibly disturbing in man form. Nice hack tho
adam - 06.05.06 10:48 pm
Where was Link?
Momus - 06.05.06 10:52 pm
that was soo god damn funny!!! i want to cry!!!!
Alex - 06.05.06 10:57 pm
“This is fake.”
Nuh uh. You don’t know nothin’.
mitch - 06.05.06 11:00 pm
ROFL
N Rumas - 06.05.06 11:09 pm
Sorry, but anyone that believes that this is real is a chump.
It’s a real wrestling game (Smackdown vs Raw 2006, to be specific) that has a very detailed create-a-character mode. Someone just made a bunch of Nintendo “look-alikes” and filmed themselves playing.
So, no, this isn’t some prototype version of Brawl. Just a little fan tribute, nothing more.
Cedge - 06.05.06 11:12 pm
IDK…it just kinda ruined the maigc the actual video had.
*thumbs down*
NPC - 06.05.06 11:13 pm
I almost died when I saw Kirby.
Xion - 06.05.06 11:17 pm
Cedge, everyone knew it was from a WWE CAW mode. It’s called sarcasm.
SV - 06.05.06 11:49 pm
That was fantastic.
Fortyseven - 06.05.06 11:55 pm
ROFLCOPTER @ Kirby and Wario! Good stuff!
Dean - 06.06.06 12:17 am
kinda old news. I got a friend who rarely plays wrestling games, instead just uses them to make oddball characters. He did many Nintendo mascots, the cast of Cowboy Bebop, all 16 fighters from Super Street Fighter II…
Zac - 06.06.06 12:47 am
Thanks for lightening up my day
Eddie - 06.06.06 12:49 am
Heads up everyone, it’s Captain “Cedge” Obvious to the rescue! You mean this isn’t really SSBB? REALLY?
Tetsuo - 06.06.06 2:31 am
I love the deadpan delivery on this post. As if it were real. Ha!
Pixelbox - 06.06.06 3:16 am
That’s so awesome!
I like Bacon - 06.06.06 4:09 am
they should work on the graphics.. plus I liked the round-bodied Kirby and Metaknight much better.. they look a little bit odd now..
xtracool - 06.06.06 4:44 am
this IS fake, look at the IGN logo appear with the Snake sequence and notice that at one moment it shows the Hit X button so it is obviously running on ps2 (or PC) But i think that it IS funny =p i hope we’ll never have to end up with such a smash bros. but hey why not a nintendo themed catch game
yk - 06.06.06 6:19 am
Ha Ha, on reading this I thought it was real… I couldn’t tell it was WWE mod from the pic. It looked real!
Then I clicked on the link… ha ha, yeah thats a good WWE mod.
TK-Linx - 06.06.06 6:44 am
Omg that’s funny….
Nintendofreak - 06.06.06 7:34 am
Gee, is this fake? Thank god people advised me or i never woulda guessed -__-
Lem - 06.06.06 8:03 am
this cant be fake! else its copyright infringement!! SUIT!
Fank - 06.06.06 9:16 am
Classic! Funny thing though, my friend who’s a big wrestling fan would probably prefer to play this over Smash Bros. :\
Joey - 06.06.06 9:24 am
where is LINK
Ravi - 06.06.06 9:40 am
BULL SH*T! LOL it was good tho…
Eric - 06.06.06 9:41 am
Fake indeed…but funny as hell!!
DCSimian - 06.06.06 9:57 am
If you beleived for one second that was real
you are an idiot!
Linkthelegend2 - 06.06.06 10:11 am
I love all the people screaming “FAKE”… that’s like running up to the guy in the Mickey Mouse suit at Disney World and screaming “YOU’RE NOT A REAL MOUSE!!! I KNOW THE TRUTH!!!!!!!” lol, thanks for the info…
Pikachelsea - 06.06.06 10:14 am
A++ give these guys a cookie. Must of took forever with character creation.
John - 06.06.06 10:19 am
Is this for real ?????
MaCraMaN - 06.06.06 10:39 am
lol
Shiro - 06.06.06 11:01 am
ROFLMAO
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ROFL - 06.06.06 1:35 pm
Pikachelsea, that’s my quote of the day!
Fantastic video too, though Kirby and Pikachu really freaked me out.
thebawp - 06.06.06 3:44 pm
Ravi,
Link may have been too hard to make.
O.K. that Pikachu was horrifying, Kirby was passable.
I think that if Nintendo ever makes a realistic Mario game, they’d make Mario look like that.
Marc - 06.06.06 4:22 pm
We need more. Mario has muscles.
EOM - 06.06.06 4:29 pm
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but I suspect this video *whispers* may not be legitimate!
amanaplan - 06.06.06 4:34 pm
Nintendo couldn’t do that. I’m positive thats FAKE.
Noubu ueumatstu made that song in colaboration with Masahiro Sakurai i think. therefore it is impossible.
Jake - 06.06.06 7:27 pm
Maybe people should be forced to click an “I have read this comment” button for each comment before they’re allowed to post the same thing everyone else is posting…
amanaplan - 06.06.06 9:49 pm
That Mario looks a lot like the gay porno stills of “Mario” that were floating around a couple years ago. But, WWE, gay pr0n…. who can really tell the difference anyway?
If someone decides to digg this, please at least change the headline.
raindog - 06.06.06 9:56 pm
I’m glad that Nintendo wouldn’t do anything like this -_- Just looks like every other Wrestling game.. >.>
Krono6 - 06.06.06 11:47 pm
i cant believe anyone thought this was a real story and called BS, how god damn stupid do you have to be.
dave_c - 06.07.06 6:33 am
Not working anymore…
OneTopJob6 - 06.07.06 7:45 am
Yep, it’s gone.
BreakfastPills - 06.07.06 5:10 pm
“I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but I suspect this video *whispers* may not be legitimate!”
*whispers* ya think?
There are TOO many people saying this is fake. Isn’t it obvious? (oh and amanaplan, you’re not one of those stupid people, i’m just playing along)
Marc - 06.07.06 5:46 pm
I wanted to see it! Is it posted anywhere else?
PhishBowl - 06.07.06 6:35 pm
no f*in way that’s real. thats totally fake.
Phylly - 06.07.06 8:00 pm
REMOVED DUE TO COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS.
Total Bullhonk.
Rynen10K - 06.07.06 8:11 pm
Where can we find the video?
I want to see it. It got taken off of youtube.
Ergo - 06.07.06 9:55 pm
I found another mirror of the video since YouTube removed it. For those who missed out view it at:
Link
Enjoy
handofg0d - 06.08.06 7:01 am
This is atrocious.
[MaSQuE] - 06.08.06 12:38 pm
FAKE The person who posted this news is a morron.
Rickee - 06.08.06 2:16 pm
(/sarcasm)
4ndii - 06.08.06 3:15 pm
Geez, some people can’t take this as a joke. The news poster was obviously joking about it.
I for one love it. =P
Wickio - 06.08.06 10:29 pm
My Eyes are bleeding…
Shanoshi - 06.08.06 10:40 pm
Is this for real? Maybe people will stop calling Nintendo so kiddie. LOL @ Kirby shoving Mario’s face in the buffet.
Jonathan - 06.09.06 1:45 am
ROFLMAO!
THAT IS FREAKING HILARIOUS!
Shinji-kun - 06.09.06 3:49 am
Best SSB ever.
Muzzaro - 06.09.06 8:25 am
I would both buy and play that game, if only for the satisfaction of playing as SSB characters.
I would also watch wrestling if they did something like this.
Haha - 06.09.06 1:04 pm
=D - 06.09.06 3:39 pm
Alright, for any of you that took the person that posted this seriously, I feel terrible that your parents reproduced. Anyone can tell from the image that it is not something Nintendo would create. It was posted to bring some humor, not to cause a mass hysteria of the febile minded. The Pikachu guy scares me and I have to admit that was a good way to make a human form of Kirby. I wish all plumbers was as good looking as Mario in the video
.
Sasha - 06.09.06 4:33 pm
ROFL,lol.
mineat - 06.09.06 6:44 pm
ROTFLMAO! I can’t believe Nintendo was going to do that. Would have been cool tho
Lester - 06.09.06 8:29 pm
Too damn funni. I couldn’t laughing through the entire thing. I knew it was fake when I saw the Smackdown graphic(I owned the game), but hey who knows. Nintendo might do a fast one in the future and put a mature SSB out there. And yea, that Pikachu thing freaked the shit out of me and Wario looked hillarious. Again, great job and anticipated whatever game you spoof next
Chip - 06.09.06 8:39 pm
This is obviously fake. Anyone who thinks this is real is stupid.
Mr.penguin - 06.09.06 8:52 pm
Damn, this was so funny. My stomach hurts.
Angelix - 06.09.06 9:49 pm
How could this be removed due to copywrite stuff? This is obviously a parody and I heard those are protected by the 1st amendment.
Megaseven - 06.10.06 12:44 am
The only people stupider than the people who believe it are the people saying that it’s fake.
Harko - 06.10.06 2:15 am
Wow, does anyone actually read all the comments before posting? Yes, it was obvious it was fake, but only due to the fact that it was posted as a joke. Oh, and to the one guy who said it would be cool if Nintendo made this game: NO!
wasdx - 06.10.06 8:00 am
If you want to have this video, you just need to use the videodownloader or unplug extensions.
In conlusion, use Firefox you n00bs!
pr0n - 06.10.06 10:54 am
www.mozilla.com
pr0n - 06.10.06 10:55 am
wow i was pretty freaked out then i saw the WWE stuff. waaaaaay to alike. and to all the people saying “OMG ITS SO FAKE!!!” or “I CANT BELIEVE U THOT IT WAS REAL UR SO STUPID” shut up. u probly thot it was real until u read the comments.
MOOOOOO - 06.10.06 12:50 pm
I saw this and had a good laugh.. then I ealised someone took the wrestlers rom the game and changed them… Friggin Shweet.. Lets see.. Mario was Triple H… Snake was Rey Mysterio.. Metaknight was JBL.. hmmm
Kamen - 06.10.06 1:33 pm
Firstly it’s hilarious, and pikachu is horrifically disturbing. Secondly the DEAD GIVAWAY that its a fake is where it says “PUSH X”, and unless they were planning on bringing out ssm on the playstation 2/3 then its a bit of an eyebrow raiser
. Anyway quality stuff!
pewpew - 06.10.06 3:12 pm
A well done to the people who made this, and a thumbs up to the reporter for sharing it.
Now for something almost as funny as the video. I find it amusing that about a Third of the comments are shouting “FAKE FAKE! OMG!” (or at least saying, “If you hadn’t realised yet, it is fake), a quarter are going “OMG! You Don’t say… Morron.” and another quarter actually sound like they are considering this to be true.
BTW, which game is this? I know it’s a WWE, and a PS2 one since I noticed an L2 prompt in there, but which one?
Heh, those game’s story modes are bloody hilarious… I think I had Alucard (Hellsing) dating with Cammy(SF2) in one season, then the next they forget about everything. What a rip.
ShadowMask - 06.10.06 4:10 pm
This is so obtuse.
Forgotten - 06.11.06 6:31 am
ROFL!!!!111
ShamanPWNED - 06.11.06 10:11 am
Hilarious.
Btw, to everyone yelling “FAKE!” “OMFG THIS IS SO REAL!” “OMFG STOP SAYING ITS FAKE OR ITS REAL”
The “actual” dead giveaway would be the picture.
Zaketo - 06.11.06 10:44 am
I would totally buy the game it’s cool!!!
Nicole - 06.11.06 11:28 am
Where the hell are all you people from? Do you not get videogames where you all live? A bunch of idiots around here. How can you not know its a WWE game with create-a-characters? Are you f’n retarded? Comments should be banned from the internet. You morons.
You idiots. - 06.11.06 3:12 pm
This rocked.
On another note: Why do people feel they need to tell us it’s fake, as if we didn’t know?
Djiem - 06.11.06 6:29 pm
Hey, that’s bad language.
Zaketo - 06.11.06 7:55 pm
Whatever… People are seriously retarded if they start saying “FAKE FAKE PLXZORS” WE are all smarter than you dude, so you can stop saying it’s fake.
Anyways it was hilarious
Pikachu… eww >:| And the yoshi was freaky, but I couldn’t see it’s head. Just the boots.
Notaretarded - 06.11.06 10:45 pm
I wonder if snake will shoot people in the actual game.
Zaketo - 06.11.06 11:46 pm
Guys, this is completely real. I have proof. There’s proof. IT’S SOMEWHERE IN WASHINGTON!
Comrade Kesha - 06.12.06 12:08 am
R U SAYIN ITZ NOT REEL??????????????????????????????
/sarcasm >_>
Limey - 06.12.06 12:19 am
This video is awesome, kudos to the guy who made it! I think that if they could make meta-knight, they probably could have pulled link off, but it isn’t that big of a deal. On another note, i’m seeing more posts about the ‘not real’ posters, than i do posts FROM the ‘not real’ posters. If they haven’t figured it out by now, they probably never will.
Daemon - 06.12.06 5:34 am
bweh heh heh! this was fantastic, i really am amazed at this. this makes a great lil clip like this but an actual game would be the biggest wast of money…ever…(thats directed at the ppl that want this game produced, if the more angry the posters havent killed them yet)
PS. i have not played a wrestling game since RAW on the N64, so i honestly did believe this was real until i read the posts.
SyeLeonis - 06.12.06 9:15 am
HAHAHA. That’s the most pathetic fake vid I’ve ever seen to date.. It’s like they don’t even try.. So pathetic. Nobody in their right mind would try to make Kirby into a person.. Whoever made this video must be some fat lazy retarted numbskull.
HAHAHAHA - 06.12.06 9:34 am
for the people who get angry, because of someone posting something they dont like… get real. if you dont like parodies then go back to beating off while getting your guy laid in gta.
for those who say “omg was a moron” to those who post “omg its so real”… look up sarcasm at http://dictionary.com/
and for those who get angry after analysing a bunch of dots on a screen, you will die of a stress induced heart attack and the masses will dance at your funeral.
umoto - 06.12.06 10:24 am
I saw kirby and died a little inside. Made me laugh though
gunwolf - 06.12.06 4:55 pm
Instead of telling people it’s “fake” we should just let the idiots think it’s real and let the Walmart employees deal with the idiots returning their games saying “This isn’t like the preview I saw on the intarnets WTFLOL?”
Your first mistake was coming to the internet thinking anybody cared about your opinion.
Jebbudiah - 06.12.06 6:22 pm
Having determined that nobody gives a damn anyway, I was vastly more amused by the comments than by the movie (good movie tho it was… Metaknight and Samus needed to switch costumes). I’m going to post a video of footage from the Mortal Kombat movie and claim it’s what the PS3 version will look like and sit back and watch the morons complain.
Read this and rejoice, morons! SOMEbody cares about your opinion! Heap it on me so I can laaaaaaaugh.
GMerriment - 06.12.06 7:03 pm
This looks like some sort of mod for a pre-existing Wrestling game…even so, it’s brilliant. Kudos to whoever did this
Myelin - 06.13.06 12:05 am
An expert depiction of the limitations (or lack thereof) of the character creation options of WWE 2006.
Too bad you can’t customize Mario’s hat with the red “M”. Should have had Luigi and Waluigi.
Kirby was well done, Pikachu was horrifying (but well done), Metaknight was creepy, Samus was sexy (that was the point, right?), Link would have been cool but just wouldn’t be right without his sword.
I liked it, I liked it a lot.
The Man Without A Face - 06.13.06 1:36 am
LOL!!! nice going Masahiro Sakurai
Stig - 06.13.06 2:04 pm
ahahahahahahhahaha!!!!!!!!! i cant stop laughing
the sad part was NO LINK LINK IS LIFE DONT U PEOPLE GET IT!!!
link is life - 06.13.06 2:25 pm
owned!
The Crimson Rogue - 06.13.06 3:13 pm
THIS…IS…STUIPID…AND…FAKE
Omg i’m glad they didn’t shoow link
rei - 06.13.06 4:38 pm
gunwolf + Jebbudiah + GMerriment have just given me back hope for humanity. I dont know for how long the link is pointing to the video on Googlevideo, but if it says “Some of the Super Smash Bros. Brawl characters recreated in a wrestling game.” right next to it and there are still people getting all worked up about this, its a pretty straight giveaway of total brain failure ^^. So i can just second the people that actually have some dignity left to point out the pointlessness of this. So, lets all lean back and enjoy this little party of trolls, flamers and moronic posters that give us a comforting feeling of intellectual superiority.
Snap - 06.13.06 5:45 pm
How could you think this is better and more “adult”?
dylan623 - 06.13.06 6:05 pm
*Shudders* I never want to see another spandex Kirby in my life….or afterlife…
Mog - 06.13.06 7:16 pm
that was… interesting.
forschnozzle - 06.13.06 9:32 pm
Snake is like the only pne who looks like a little normal….but not that much
Griffin - 06.13.06 11:18 pm
i agree with jebudia, yet i dont care about his opinion. no one reads this far anyway. i LOVED the vid, and will show it to all my gullable friends telling them nintendo released a new SSBB vid after e3 because they didnt like where the game was going anymore. hilarity ensues.
mr_ewe - 06.14.06 1:16 am
The video was moderatly funny but the comments are hilarious. Now if you dont mind im going to play SSBM while the rest of you eat small insects from each others hair.
Ninjaman - 06.14.06 2:27 pm
The comments were funnier than the video.
q3w - 06.15.06 4:07 pm
la wea shakal .o.
KyoZalid - 06.15.06 4:25 pm
I have a theroy. It is that fourms reach “retarded mass”. ex: in this forum, first people said it was fake. Then people yelled at those people for saying its fake. Then people yelled at the people yelling at the people who said it was fake because it was “obviously fake”. and so on and so fourth. Eventually everyone involved in this cycle will have their brain shrivle up and die or be kill by people with an IQ greater than president bush. This will happen because of the level of retarded radiation or “retardation”. The point at which this happens the “retarded mass”, and I worry that this fourm is dangerously close.
I thought the video was hilarious. Cant we all just get along?
Scientist - 06.15.06 7:51 pm
Pikachu almost looked like a yellow version of the Tick. =O
Nubian - 06.16.06 12:27 am
So awesome.
I rofl’d when I saw “Kirby”. The person must’ve spent a while working on those characters.
Jase - 06.17.06 4:30 am
this is simply a create a wrestler from smackdown vs raw 2006 and believe me it is freaking hard to get a normal looking guy at least so this was amazing!
flanch bucket - 06.17.06 4:51 am
Ex dee.
Dio - 06.18.06 5:24 pm
Frankly, everytime I see someone yelling at someone else on forums, the way i get around it is saying to myself: “Well I know my life is alot better than that person.” =)
Kagosin - 06.19.06 1:54 pm
This game would suck so much ass not even Jennifer Lopez could provide enough!! If Nintendo came out with this I would boycott them to the DEATH!! Pikachu and Kirby and Mario and basically all char’s looked stupider than the 3 stooges on weed, among other various drugs. Stupidest thing I’ve seen yet I say, and again, it’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen, what is gaming drowning in these days!?
Kamikaze - 06.19.06 2:39 pm
BWAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA
MY EYES ARE BLEEDING
nimm - 06.19.06 11:47 pm
i have that game pwnd evry one with mario lol i think sonys a noob the ps3 sux microsoft sux the wii is so awsome
i played with zero suit sumas i pused the game and saw here (*Y*) and i masterbated to it i faped to it realy hard
miguel - 06.28.06 6:46 pm
your mum who ever done this game
pall - 06.30.06 6:20 pm