With the advent of the internet, it seems devs assumed no one wants to do local multiplayer, which is kinda lame.
Who says that one can't play local multiplayer in an emulator? I played SSBM with my friends in Dolphin when I was at Dreamhack 
But Melee had local multiplayer built-in. dakarv was referring (I think) to games that scrapped it altogether.
multi-player...you get it?
Is that like a harem?
ps: I keep getting ninja'd...