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During 1998, {{uv|Kirby}} series creator [[Masahiro Sakurai]], working at [[Nintendo]] second-party developer [[HAL Laboratory]], pursued interest in making a fighting game for four players. From the outset, he did not have any ideas and used exceedingly basic character designs. When he presented the concept (provisionally called ''[[Dragon King: The Fighting Game]]'') to his superior, [[Satoru Iwata]] - then the president of HAL Laboratory - Iwata helped Sakurai find ways to make the game original since many fighting games did not sell well, and Sakurai's first idea was to insert a wide variety of popular characters from different Nintendo franchises and have them fight in a crossover. Sakurai knew he would not receive permission to do this by asking, and therefore secretly created a prototype of the [[Nintendo 64]] fighter in advance and only informed his superiors of it after carefully balancing his first four character inclusions: [[Mario]], [[Donkey Kong]], [[Samus Aran]], and [[Fox McCloud]]. Fortunately for him, the idea was approved, and Sakurai developed the game, ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'', as a low-budget crossover fighter that was intended to be released exclusively in Japan. The finished product's nearly-unique spin on free-roaming, multi-directional fighting on two-dimensional platform-filled planes is said to have been inspired by an obscure 1994 arcade fighting game by [[Namco]] titled ''The Outfoxies''.