Super Mario Maker

Super Mario Maker
Box art showing Mario in a construction worker outfit and several game assets for designing courses
Developer(s)	Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Yosuke Oshino
Producer(s)	Takashi Tezuka Hiroyuki Kimura
Designer(s)	Shigefumi Hino Arisa Hosaka
Artist(s)	Hirotake Ohtsubo Kenta Usui Nobuo Matsumiya Mari Shibata
Composer(s)	Koji Kondo Naoto Kubo Asuka Hayazaki
Series	Super Mario
Platform(s)	Wii U, Nintendo 3DS
Release	Wii U JP: September 10, 2015 NA/EU: September 11, 2015 AU: September 12, 2015 Nintendo 3DS JP: December 1, 2016 NA/EU: December 2, 2016 AU: December 3, 2016
Genre(s)	Level editor, platform
Mode(s)	Single-player

Super Mario Maker^[a] is a 2015 platform game and game creation system developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii U, released worldwide in September 2015. Players can create, play, and share courses online, free of charge, based on the styles of Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, and New Super Mario Bros. U. The game was revealed as the final challenge of Nintendo World Championships 2015.

Upon release, critical reviews praised its user interface and course editing tools. By May 2016, more than seven million courses had been created by players worldwide, which had been played more than 600 million times. Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS^[b] was released in December 2016, without the ability to upload levels to the online portal. Super Mario Maker 2 was released for the Nintendo Switch in June 2019. Sale of Super Mario Maker on the Wii U's Nintendo eShop was discontinued on January 12, 2021, and course upload support and the bookmark portal site was discontinued on March 31, 2021.^[1] The remaining online services for both the Wii U and 3DS versions of the game, such as playing levels uploaded before the portal site was discontinued, were shut down on April 8, 2024.^[2]

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