WI: Smash Bros came out earlier

My thoughts on this:

It would not be nearly as successful as it was when it was released OTL. If it had been released during the SNES era, aside from having a very limited roster, it would have had to contend against many more fighting games that already had an established tournament scene, which was quite big at the time. And it would possibly stay in Japan only. It would be a cult classic, somewhat similar to the Fire Emblem games from the SNES.

What gave the distinctive advantage to SSB in the N64 was the fact that the fighters that were in that console were either bad, crude, or were button-mashers, and the fact that, when we consider that by the time that SSB rolled in, most of the people who had played with Nintendo games were on their teens by now, so it was kind of appealing to nostalgia and those times that we wondered who would win between Mario and Donkey Kong.
 
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