Super Smash Bros was originally going to be a Japanese Exclusive
The source states, "Amazingly Nintendo didn't think this game featuring all their star characters was going to be a hit, so they barely advertised it and weren't going to release it outside of Japan. To be fair though, the original Smash Bros. was a quirky, low-budget passion project — to some degree it was understandable that Nintendo didn't bet big on it. But hey, once it sold over a million copies in Japan, Nintendo was suddenly very eager to release it overseas"(Birch).
