Turns out the "Bros" in Super Smash Bros were the friends we made along the way, and I'm only sort of kidding

The “Bros” part of Super Smash Bros. has always been a bit of a mystery, but series creator Masahiro Sakurai has shed some light on what it means.For the most part, the name Super Smash Bros. title makes a lot of sense – super, because, well, Super Mario, Super Nintendo Entertainment system, Nintendo just used it a lot. Smash, because they’re hitting each other. But then you get to Bros. Yeah, sure, there’s Mario and Luigi, but I don’t think Link and Pikachu are brothers, at least not the last time I checked. But thankfully, in Masuhiro Sakurai’s latest video on his Creating Games YouTube channel, the creator of the series spoke of some of his memories of Satoru Iwata, the late former president of Nintendo Japan. In that video, he shared that it was actually Iwata who helped come up with t…

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