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Mascot fighter

You pick famous characters from different franchises, often a company's mascots, and pit them against each other in one fighting game: that crossover of franchises is what defines it. It almost always follows platform fighter rules, with several rivals at once, and instead of draining a health bar you try to knock them off the stage.

Also known as: mascot fighting game

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1999
    Origin

    Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo, 1999), which brought together characters from many Nintendo series, was the format's first hit and defined its mechanics; The Outfoxies already had many of them.

    Platform fighter (Wikipedia)

Reference games

1999

Super Smash Bros.

HAL Laboratory. Nintendo 64

Nintendo characters fight on open stages, up to four at a time. Each hit raises a damage percentage that makes it easier to launch the opponent off the stage, which is how you win.