Hello and welcome to NBC IGN's Nintendo podcast. I'm your host Kisea DeFritis and today

I'm joined by Tom Marx. Hello, Pearce Knighter. Hello Kisea. And Brian Altano. How are you?

Today we're gonna be talking about I'm not gonna answer that question. Today we're gonna talk about Mario Maker

because we just watched the 15 minute direct and it was

really awesome and really surprising. There was a car. There was a claw. There was a moon and a sun. No Pokemon though

You could spend the next hour just being like naming individual things. It was like one of the most

sort of densely packed

frenetic

Direct that they've ever done. It was pretty much non-stop details and information. I was taking notes throughout the whole thing

I was like, oh my god, there's a lot. I feel here. It reminded me of our April Fool's

Nintendo Direct that we did where we had the whole everything's coming to switch theme. It felt like

Everything is in the except for one thing as soon as Mario was in a hot rod. I was like where are we going?

For you crazy. Yeah, the game looks awesome. I'm super excited for it. So

Brian, can you give us a breakdown?

Sure, okay

Let me go top level here. So Super Mario Maker originally released on the Nintendo Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS was the first sort of

interactive Mario

Level maker that Nintendo had ever released. It had a very sort of brief

Story mode style thing in it that had a couple of pre-baked levels in Nintendo made

But ultimately this was up to you and the rest of the internet to create and share levels

It was a massive success despite the fact that we you was mostly not and people made incredible levels in the game that they shared all over the world

That went on to be basically big YouTube streamer type

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