Inspired after playing Smash Bros, tried a series cuz you liked the character? Options

[Lindstrom]

Plain and simple, have you ever got into a game series because you learned about the character(s) from playing Smash Bros?

In an example, Fire Emblem vaguely sounded familiar, but after playing Melee and thinking Roy and Marth were pretty awesome, I decided to give the series a chance. I was fairly surprised and initially disappointed when I got Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Ike's first game, doesn't feature Roy or Marth) because the game play was fairly limited. I got more interested when I got further cuz I realized it was much harder than other games, including other tactical games. Then later when Ike was announced for Brawl I thought that was pretty awesome, but I miss being able to play as Roy and I enjoyed his game (Fuuin no Tsurugi, or the Sealed Sword) much more than Ike's. I was already familiar with the games from every other series (I even had Game and Watch Gallery for the original Game Boy) so Fire Emblem was really the only one that was new to me.

[Peter]

I was a pretty big Nintendo fanboy, so there were only a select few characters that I didn't know about when each of the SSB games came out. The biggest jump was just as you said, Fire Emblem, because it really wasn't widely known in the states until SSBM came out. But other than that, I had played everything from Earthbound to Zelda. I had good roots growing up. Heh. I dunno about getting that Staffy game for the DS though. It looks a little too... cutesy for me. But again, that's another game that was never 'westernized' until SSB gave it a debut.

showchoirgirl: I'm so sorry that you are only just now getting into the Zelda series. They truly are phenomenal. Since you've downloaded the two for the N64, I would also recommend the SNES one, A Link To The Past. It is the traditional top-down style of play that made it famous back in 1987. Only if you feel you can be a true hardcore fan would I say get the first two for the NES though, because the first one is insanely hard, and the second one got a bad rep for the style of gameplay it incorporated.