The market was over saturated with too many people wanting to get that Atari money. Sadly, all good things will come to an end one day, Atari’s day was back around the end of 1982, which came to be known as “the video game crash of 1983”. It’s weird that Atari never really had a true character rep for Smash. The Atari 6000 is seen by many to be the mother of all the other gaming consoles. Atari were the ones that started the trend of the home console boom, still seen to this day.
Atari were once the kings of the gaming world, the Nintendo of that era. Sadly, Smash never really had a character to rep the early days of gaming, Atari. Smash has had a lot of different gaming icons over the years. OK… please here me out on this… Just hear me out… please Also he has moveset potential, and all claims that he's too violent are deflected because Sephiroth.
Tl dr because I don't know how to finish this: Jason is an icon, has had a great effect on gaming, and would be an extremely unique character plus he fits the Japanese superstition of 4 so having him be the 4th Challenger would be really fitting. But isn't he too brutal? Maybe, but the smash characters have survived way worse plus Sephiroth is in the game. Plus he has superhuman strength, Speed, Stealth, Intelligence, and might even be able to teleport. Lastly, he's be such a unique addition to the roster as both a horror rep and terrifying monster.Īs for moves, Jason wields a variety of weapons like the Machete, Pitchfork, Spear Gun, Axe, Bear Trap, if you can think of a weapon he probably used it. Also, Smash is definitely lacking in horror representation so adding Jason would definitely be a great surprise to alleviate this. Why should he be considered? Well, he has ties to video games from having the most popular asymmetrical multiplayer horror game and lead to the genre being decently popular leading to multiple games of the same nature to come (like DBD, VHS, Last Year, etc.), so while his game life-span is short it's still important to a new genre. Jason is both an icon of horror and just in general an icon that made many inspirations and is why a lot of generic killers in media wear hockey masks.
Jason Voorhees is the serial killer of Camp Crystal Lake, known for being basically unkillable and being the face of movie slashers. So I tried making Challenger 4 an unlucky sight and related to Death. Slight Context: In Japan 4 is an unlucky number because it sounds like Death.