Chris Taylor, The Terminally Ill Super Smash Bros Fan, Has Sadly Passed Away

Chris Taylor, the terminally ill Nintendo fan that saw a tweet about wanting to play Super Smash Bros Ultimate before he passed away turn into a visit from Nintendo, unfortunately succumbed to his illness at around 5PM Monday afternoon at the age of 21.

Chris’s brother Zach shared the saddening news on Reddit:

Terminal Cancer Patient Chris Taylor passes away. from r/smashbros

Many in the Super Smash Bros community expressed condolences for the 21-year-old Taylor, while also being glad that he was able to get his final wish granted before his passing:

It's with a heavy heart that I have to say this, but Chris Taylor, aka @SpookyWoobler has unfortunately succumbed to his condition and passed away earlier.

His last wish was to play Smash Ultimate, and @NintendoAmerica made his final days some of the brightest he's ever had.

— Etika (@Etika) September 25, 2018

I'm in tears. I just learned Chris passed away today. His last wish was to play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and he got it. Makes me so sad but happy he got to play as Snake one last time.

Rest in peace Chris. https://t.co/1bm0l86nWb

— Bear (@BearUNLV) September 25, 2018

Rest In Peace, @SpookyWoobler

So glad he got to play Smash Ultimate in time. A legend forever. https://t.co/bperuYFkXv

— juan (@LiquidHbox) September 25, 2018

Taylor captured the hearts of gamers around the world last week with a heartbreaking series of Tweets, talking about his desire to play Super Smash Bros Ultimate but being unsure if he would make it to the game’s launch:

Im really scared i won't be able to play ultimate

— Chris Taylor (@SpookyWoobler) September 13, 2018

The tweet quickly made the rounds, as Redditors, professional Smash players and content creators boosted Taylor’s signal with a simple request: figure out a way to let Taylor enjoy the game in his final days. Nintendo came through, bringing the E3 2018 demo to Taylor’s home and letting him play with his friends and family for three whole hours.

Some pics from me, local Benjamin, and Zach playing

Thanks so much guys, this means so much to me pic.twitter.com/raxPu7QJp9

— Chris Taylor (@SpookyWoobler) September 21, 2018

HIs final tweet, posted at 3:05PM Eastern on Friday, September 21st, linked to a Reddit post where he thanked everyone that made his wish come true:

"A little late for my response, but i'm chris, the one y'all helpes

No words can describe how thankful i am to the smash and DMC communities banding together and helping me. I hardly deserve it but you guys did all this and just the pure kindness brings me to tears, thank you so so so so so much.

If anyone just hearing about this and wants to help me still even though you've all gone far and beyond the call, the cancer i have is a semi-rare bone cancer called Osteosarcoma, the doctors i've met who work on it here in Toronto are amazing but are completely lacking in funding for research. I've done 2 different experimental treatments in hopes of finding better ways to treat the cancer, but to give you an idea, the main chemo they use for this is the same they used back in the 1970's era

If you want to make sure that we don't have more people dying of osteo, including young children which its most prevalent in, there is a collective of osteo focused doctors and families who run a non profit at https://www.mibagents.org/# to help fund research for new Medication AND help fund the dying dreams of people like you did mine. If you could send some donations their way, that would mean a million to me

Again thank you so much, i can't say it enough, thank you all. I hope every single one of you have an amazing day."

Chris Taylor’s story is the kind of news we need in the industry right now. A band of people coming together for one of their own, helping out a brother in need in his final days. I don’t think anyone will ever feel the euphoria that he must have felt when Nintendo showed up with the Smash Bros Ultimate demo, when he pressed start and the battles began. All of that was made possible by a community that cares, and a company that was willing to respond in kind.

The entire Twin Galaxies team wants to wish Chris Taylor’s family our deepest condolences during this difficult time, and may Chris rest in peace.