The game is essentially a crossover between several different Nintendo franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda and Kirby.

Additionally, most stages have a theme relating to a Nintendo franchise or a specific Nintendo game and are interactive to the player.

Melee introduced "Adventure mode", which takes the player to several predefined universes of characters in the Nintendo franchise.

Every character featured in the game derives from a popular Nintendo franchise.

A Nintendo franchise called Super Smash Bros. had its second game released in 2001 for the GameCube and used the term "melee" in the title.

Earlier CD-i games included entries in popular Nintendo franchises, although those games were not developed by Nintendo.

The Game Boy had many ports of games from popular Nintendo franchises.

Previously he was attached to the Metroid film based on the Nintendo franchise with John Woo.

The game heavily borrows game play elements from the Mario Party series, another Nintendo franchise.

In terms of games, a number of notable Nintendo franchises will be making their way to the 3DS, some we knew about, some we didn't.