Past Stages

Temple, as it appears as a Melee Stage in Brawl.

Past Stages is the designation for returning stages in Super Smash Bros. Melee. In Brawl, they are known as Melee Stages.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee

In Melee, three Past Stages were available. They are replicas of their Super Smash Bros. counterparts, complete with music and backgrounds. All of these stages must be unlocked, unlike in the original game. The stages also seem to be slightly larger in size than before. None of these stages will be used as a character's home stage in Classic Mode, All-Star Mode or Event Match (with one exception).

From Super Smash Bros.

• Kongo Jungle
• Yoshi's Island
• Dream Land

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

In Brawl, they are referred to as Melee Stages, as only stages originating from Melee reappear. As a result, this makes Brawl the only game where stages from the first Smash Bros. do not appear. These stages now utilize the functions of My Music, like most stages in Brawl. According to the DOJO!!, the stages are arranged so the player can get one from each game world. This turned out to mean each universe that was represented in the original game, all of which had multiple stages in Melee. Unlike the Past Stages of Melee, some Melee Stages have had minor edits (which are listed below), while aesthetically remaining largely the same as Melee. As in Melee, none of these stages will be used as a character's home stage in Classic Mode or All-Star Mode.

Changes in Super Smash Bros. Melee stages

Stage	Availability	Changes
Big Blue	Unlockable	Floating platforms and other airborne items except bumpers don't fly away with the stage.
Brinstar	Starter	Stronger acid.
Corneria	Starter	New sound effects for the flying Arwings and Wolfens, blasts from the Arwings and Wolfens no longer KO but still deal damage.
Green Greens	Unlockable	Bomb blocks have much more knockback, making it able to KO at low damage percentages. All three block columns in each side must now fill to the top in order to halt the dropping blocks for that side, rather than just one.
Jungle Japes	Unlockable	Characters can now swim in the river, but it will still carry them off-screen; Klaptraps have different properties.
Pokémon Stadium	Unlockable	Fireworks in the background look different, the windmill's platforms in the water stage are no longer pass-through, new sound effect from Pokémon Stadium 2 can be heard when the stage is changing.
Rainbow Cruise	Starter	Floating items like Party Balls no longer fly offscreen, characters can no longer jump through the donut lifts.
Temple	Starter	Edge near lowest platform can no longer be grabbed.
Onett	Starter	Warning sign when a car is approaching is much smaller and can hardly be seen, right edge of the roof on the building on the left can not be grabbed, hospital in the background has had its red cross removed, the blue house's roof has a small area on the sides where players cannot jump over, cars are much weaker though they can still damage the player.
Yoshi's Island	Starter	Reduced size.

It should also be noted that most (if not all) of these stages are smaller compared to the characters than they were in Melee, possibly due to the character models being larger in order to provide more detail. Also, some of the music sounds slightly different than it did in Melee. Finally, the Pokémon Trainer gains platforms in the background.

In Super Smash Bros. 4 and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Unlike in Melee and Brawl, a majority of the playable stages in these games are returning stages. Because of this, they are grouped with the new stages, and are not given any special distinction. In Smash 4, returning stages can be used as home stages in All-Star Mode (and Classic Mode in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS), while the concept is absent altogether in Ultimate.