Searching for Nintendo's Lost Smash Bros. 64 Event: Slamfest '99 - We Talk to One of the Creators!

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Super Smash Bros. (1999)
Duration: 49:20
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In 1999, Nintendo hosted a real life Smash Bros. 64 brawl called SmashFest...and there's almost zero record of it ever happening. But one of the creators got a hold of us and agreed to answer our questions about interesting lost piece of media!
Find Ed Espinoza at:
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https://twitter.com/edespinoza
https://www.edespinoza.com/

Timestamps:
0:00 Slamfest backstory
1:26 Interview and unaware people were looking for it
2:49 Watching back in ‘99
3:44 How Smashfest came together
7:00 The Satellite Truck
10:27 Smashfest Coverage Plan
14:00 Focusing on just video game media
16:52 Audience at the MGM
19:27 Ed’s Instagram Post
22:30 Writing the Script, “The Pimento of Nintendo”
25:30 Cirque du Soleil Fight Choreography
27:50 Where’s the video record?
30:51 If the video exists
33:20 Memories from being at the event
36:34 The mascots & DK was huge
38:25 Launching other games like JFG
42:50 What was it like working with Nintendo?

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