Trivia / Super Smash Bros. 64

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• Blooper: In the original advertisement when Mario kicks Yoshi, his shoe gets knocked off flying and in the next scene, both of them are on the ground as the characters are fighting.
• God Never Said That: A rumor that has persistently stuck around for decades states that Peach, Wario, Pit, and Meowth were planned for inclusion in Smash 64. However, outside of Bowser, Mewtwo, Dedede, and Marth, no such official source exists that states these characters were planned for inclusion.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The only way to acquire official copies of the game is through second-hand N64 cartridges, as the Wii Shop Channel closed down in 2019 and the game hasn't seen a rerelease through the Nintendo eShop or Nintendo Switch Online since then.
• Late Export for You: This game released in China in 2005, six years after the rest of the world.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": For the PAL region, this was Ness's debut due to EarthBound (1994) not being released in those countries until 2013 on the Wii U's Virtual Console.
• No Budget: It's sometimes hard to notice, but the game began as mere side project for Sakurai to work on during weekends, and only made into a full game when Hal Labs needed a game to fill its release schedule. Nobody, not even Nintendo, was expecting it to fare as well as it did. The sequels have proper budgets to go with their status as a major Nintendo franchise.
• The Other Darrin: For Japan only. This is the first game where Charles Martinet is voicing Luigi rather than Julien Bardakoff.
• Role Reprise:
  • Charles Martinet, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Kazumi Totaka and Shinobu Satouchi all reprise their roles as Mario and Luigi, Link, Yoshi, and Fox, respectively.
    • Martinet, Hiyama and Totaka do so via repurposed voice clips from their respective games, specifically Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Yoshi's Story. Curiously, Martinet's voice for Luigi is simply Mario's voice from Super Mario 64 being digitally altered to sound higher-pitched, which would carry over to Melee.
  • Ikue Otani reprises her role as Pikachu from the Pokémon anime.
  • Rachael Lillis and Mika Kanai reprise their roles as Jigglypuff from the Pokémon anime as well. Notably, this makes Jigglypuff the only character out of the original 12 to have different voice actresses depending on the language.
• Sleeper Hit: The original Super Smash Bros. started as a side project by Masahiro Sakurai that Satoru Iwata allowed him to do on the weekends at HAL Laboratory. Eventually Iwata became more interested in this "King of the Hill"-like fighter, and the company asked Nintendo if they could use some of their characters. Nintendo relented but remained iffy on the entire thing, keeping the budget on the game incredibly small and planning on a Japan-only release. Despite little promotion, the game took off in Japan and was brought to the United States and Europe later that year, becoming a Killer App for the Nintendo 64.
• Star-Making Role: Makiko Ohmoto as Kirby and Ness. Ohmoto would go on to reprise the former in his home series starting with Kirby 64, though Kirby: Right Back at Ya! would further prove her worth as the little puffball.
• Ur-Example: Contrary to popular belief, the original Super Smash Bros wasn't the first Platform Fighter game. That title goes to an obscure game released back in 1994 by Namco (now known as Bandai Namco Entertainment) called The Outfoxies, though the aforementioned game and the SSB games have a lot of differing quirks. Funnily enough, Namco Bandai ended up being contracted by Nintendo to develop the fourth and fifth installments.
• What Could Have Been: Has its own page along with the rest of the series.

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