--- title: Hands on With Super Smash Bros. 4 description: TIME puts Super Smash Bros. 4's new characters and levels to the test. canonical: https://time.com/2871261/super-smash-bros-4/ author: Corey Protin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-13T17:23:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:02:31.419Z article:section: Business og:title: Hands on With Super Smash Bros. 4 og:description: TIME puts Super Smash Bros. 4's new characters and levels to the test. og:url: https://time.com/2871261/super-smash-bros-4/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f6106f0f3e728a3/698697a4e53aba1fb94d32a2/super-smash-bros.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Inside The 2014 E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hands on With Super Smash Bros. 4 twitter:description: TIME puts Super Smash Bros. 4's new characters and levels to the test. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f6106f0f3e728a3/698697a4e53aba1fb94d32a2/super-smash-bros.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # WATCH: Hands on With Super Smash Bros. 4 by [Corey Protin](/author/corey-protin/), [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) and [Harry Swartout](/author/harry-swartout/) Jun 13, 2014 5:23 PM CUT  Attendees play Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 3DS during the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Attendees play Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 3DS during the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, June 11, 2014.Patrick T. Fallon—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Corey Protin](/author/corey-protin/), [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) and [Harry Swartout](/author/harry-swartout/) Jun 13, 2014 5:23 PM CUT TIME may be good at writing about video games but playing them … not so much. TIME senior editor Matt Peckham faced off against two Nintendo product evaluators — but somehow nobody won. A CPU playing as the Villager from Animal Crossing took the prize, but that only goes to show what the new Super Smash Bros. has to offer, including new characters like video game legend Pac-Man, new more-balanced levels, and all the bashing you can handle. And give Peckham some credit, he was doing an interview while playing. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2871261/super-smash-bros-4/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2871261/super-smash-bros-4/"},"headline":"WATCH: Hands on With Super Smash Bros. 4","datePublished":"2014-06-13T17:23:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:02:31.419Z","description":"TIME picks up a controller and dukes it out in Super Smash Brothers 4.","url":"https://time.com/2871261/super-smash-bros-4/","keywords":["Tech","Nintendo","Wii U","3ds","e3","e3 2014"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f6106f0f3e728a3/698697a4e53aba1fb94d32a2/super-smash-bros.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Corey Protin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/corey-protin/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Harry Swartout","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/harry-swartout/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f6106f0f3e728a3/698697a4e53aba1fb94d32a2/super-smash-bros.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Inside The 2014 E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo","caption":"Inside The 2014 E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo","creditText":"Patrick T. Fallon—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2871261/super-smash-bros-4/","name":"WATCH: Hands on With Super Smash Bros. 4"}}]}] ```