I just got flashbacks to the Smash Direct back in April 2014. (maybe beacuse of the Optimistic Charizard image that was posted recently)
To this day, i still remember all that hype, i remember the day it was announced (April 4th of 2014), and how i had to wait an entire weekend to see that Smash Direct. It was like Majora's Mask, except instead of a Moon, it was a Smash Direct, and instead of fear, it was hype.
It was the first of many Nintendo Directs that had news about nothing, but Smash Bros. That idea alone made me excited, and i wasn't the only one.
I remember seeing Yoshi at long last in Smash 4, i remember Sakurai pretty much taking everyone by suprise by saying that Zero Suit Samus wasn't gonna come back.........only to reveal her a few seconds after. I remember seeing the Balloon Fight stage, a favorite choice of mine when it came to Stage ideas for Smash 4.......
......and i also remember the great Assist Trophy Massacre of 2014, the reveal of Charizard and Shiek (and the already mentioned ZSS) as separate characters (and while i love these characters, their announcements as solo fighters pretty much confirmed the death of the Transformation mechanic, which killed my hope of seeing the Pokémon Trainer, Ivysaur and Squirtle coming back)........and worst of all, i actually was one of those people that thought that the shadowy creature in the final trailer was Mewtwo..........only to be revealed that it was Greninja right after. That last one actually deflated some of my hype (mostly because i had no idea who the heck Greninja was a the tie of his reveal, even though he is basically one of my favorite characters in Smash now, so it's all good now)
.....aaaaand of course there's that one moment that im not going to mention since it will create nothing but pure chaos.
Still, that Direct is something that i will remember for a long time, and of good reason too.