Despite Melee turning 18 this year and having been replaced three times by newer Super Smash Bros. titles, its records continue to be broken.
For the most part, when the next installment of a game is released, we move on from the old one and into the future. We might play it every now and again for nostalgic reasons, but otherwise, we're going to wait 20 years for it to be remastered. That has not been the case with Super Smash Bros. Melee.
Despite being released all the way back in 2001, and three newer versions of the game being released since, Melee remains a firm favorite with Smash fans. Gamers still play it religiously today and it is still featured in fighting game tournaments and conventions around the world. Ultimate might well be the best Smash title since Melee, but it hasn't overtaken it yet.
Nintendo recently brought Melee's stage builder mode to Ultimate, which has got players hopeful that another classic mini-game will be making a comeback - the Home Run Contest. It's a simple concept that requires players to pick a character and hit Sandbag as far as they can. Since Melee is an incredibly competitive game, there are naturally a litany of records linked to the HRC, and a long-held one has just been broken.
As you can see above, Typo hits Sandbag a whopping 7328.3 ft using Captain Falcon. That's well over a mile. It is also the first time anyone has broken the Falcon world record using this strat since 2007. As for the overall Falcon HRC world record, that was broken as recently as 2016. Typo now holds that too, naturally, but don't feel sorry for the previous holder - that was Typo too.
We're hoping Typo's record-breaking effort will bring enough attention to Melee's HRC that Nintendo notices and adds it to Ultimate. Like we wrote above, it might be simple, but if players are still breaking its records more than a decade later, it's clearly popular. We can't imagine it would take much effort to add it to Ultimate, and it would certainly make a lot of people happy should Nintendo choose to do so.