Nintendo Australia have announced that today anyone can become a Mario course designer as Super Mario Maker is in stores now.



To date, the Super Mario series has sold more than 310 million copies globally, with Mario, one of the world’s most recognisable entertainment characters, at its centre. With the release of Super Mario Maker, friends - for the first time ever - can have fun playing through Super Mario levels they create for one another! With the game containing a toolkit packed with iconic Mario enemies, items and areas at their disposal, fans can share their creations online, while checking out and rating an almost limitless supply of levels constructed by fellow players from across the globe.


Anyone who is picking up their copy today has a few options available, there is the standard game, the game with the original colours 8-bit mario amiibo or the game packed in with a Wii U console. Anyone who wants to, can also go the digital route.

Meanwhile, none other than the creator of the Super Mario series himself, Shigeru Miyamoto, has been helping clear up some long-running fan debates in his own inimitable way.