E3 - The Second Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Yes, this very important event took place last week, and some very important things happened this year. In honor of E3's 20th Anniversary (yes, I can't believe it either, but read it and weep -- 1995-2015), Nintendo held an event that hasn't been held since 5 years before E3 existed: "Nintendo World Championships". For more on that click here

There was another E3 moment that I felt was noteworthy as well, and that was the release of the new video for a game called "Mario Maker." Besides the introduction of the new video, the game's title was updated to the name of "Super Mario Maker" and my only guess for this is that if they had went with the original working title, then the level creation feature of the game would have had to include some features from the original Mario Bros. game as well. Honestly, though, this isn't too much of a trade-off and I have watched every new video that Nintendo has released for it, and each time, I get more and more excited about it.

Initially, the first video only showed footage from Super Mario Bros. However, when the Game Awards ceremony appeared later, they also showed footage from Super Mario World and Super Mario Bros. 3. This got me even more excited, and I wanted the game even more. I then went on IGN to see when the game would be released, and their speculated date was New Years' Eve 2015, which felt like too long to wait. However, at this year's E3, the new trailer said that the release date would be on September 11, which means, if the price is right, that I can look forward to it for this holiday season.

I have also included a game-play video from E3 that can be viewed here.