Slamfest '99

Super Smash Bros. Slamfest '99, also known as Super Smash Bros. LIVE or simply Slamfest '99, was an official promotional event for the North American release of Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64, held at the MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 24, 1999.[1] Organized by Nintendo of America and public relations firm Golin/Harris,[2] the event featured a real-life, staged wrestling match involving four costumed Super Smash Bros. characters performed in front of a live audience.

The wrestling match was live-streamed on the web via RealPlayer by the web broadcasting service InternetBroadcast.com.[3] While a rebroadcast of the match was hosted on the event's official website for several months following its conclusion, no video footage of Slamfest '99 is currently known to exist, and the broadcast is considered lost media. A search effort by fans and internet archivists to find the broadcast footage has been active since May 2020.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Nintendo Stages Smashing Fight". IGN. April 22, 1999. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
  2. ^ "Searching for Nintendo's Lost Smash Bros. 64 Event: Slamfest '99 - We Talk to One of the Creators!" on YouTube
  3. ^ "Smash Bros. Internet Broadcast". Archived from the original on September 8, 1999. Retrieved April 30, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ "Slamfest '99 aka "Super Smash Bros. LIVE" (lost livestream of promotional event for Nintendo 64 crossover fighting game; 1999)". Retrieved April 30, 2023.
  5. ^ "Archivists Frantically Hunt Footage of 1999 Super Smash Bros. Boxing Match". Vice. May 12, 2020. Retrieved June 4, 2022.