No movie franchise has made a bigger impact on gaming than Star Wars, which boasts well over a hundred separate releases for practically every system that has ever existed. Adaptations of the much loved original trilogy, and its later sequels, have grown in sophistication with each passing year.

Since LucasArts was founded in 1982 by George Lucas himself, its connection to Star Wars runs deep. Therefore, their releases have always been celebrated as authentic and rich expansions on established lore, through loving storylines, varied gameplay and, naturally, incredible audio.

To help explore the franchise’s early days, I spoke to Paul Webb – best known for his work on Super Star Wars. From there, you can’t discuss the further growth of LucasArts through the 90s, and on into the naughties, without Clint Bajakian – and Peter McConnell – who both also composed for Indiana Jones. Between the four of us, we’ll cover the sound of Star Wars adaptations from the Nintendo Entertainment System up to the PlayStation 1 and PCs, when CD audio took over from chiptune.

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No interview this week, but we do have a stacked playlist of sidekick celebration! I explore some of gaming's most well-known tagalongs, player 2s and assistants; all with the help of my wonderful regular listeners. You'll hear my own Top 5, along with a whole host of other great choices!

Besides the theme, this episode finally brings some concrete (and complex) answers to the VGM SongFight battle. Hopefully, it'll make more sense as the story unfurls, but you can rely on three strong news points this week, and a devilish round of the Sound Effects Showdown. Additionally, there's a sample of next week's ST2 Star Wars special right at the end!

This week's playlist:

Opening (William Tell Overture) – Gioachino Rossini (arranged by Team Kuuneruasobu) [Lone Ranger]Colonius – Alexander Brandon [Jazz Jackrabbit 2]Disco Train – David Wise [Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest]Force Your Way – Nobuo Uematsu [Final Fantasy VIII]Theme – Lex Horton [Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]80s Annelid – Tommy Tallarico [Earthworm Jim](Pirate Stronghold) Globox – Claude Samard [Rayman M/Arena]
Dog – C418 [Minecraft]Old Town – Russell Shaw [Fable 2]All Who Follow You – Nick Arundel [Batman: Arkham Knight]Discovering Banjoland – Grant Kirkhope [Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts]Jawa Sandcrawler – John Williams (arranged by Paul Webb) [Super Star Wars]Corneria – Hajime Wakai and/or Koji Kondo [Star Fox 64]Underground BGM – Koji Kondo [Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island]Gerudo Valley – Koji Kondo [The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]Love as a Construct – Mike Morasky [Portal 2]Detonate – Tommy Tallarico [Tomorrow Never Dies]Covenant Dance – Martin O’Donnell and/or Michael Salvatori [Halo]Sentinel Beach – Josh Mancell[Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy]Jowai Resort, Pokitaru – David Bergeaud [Ratchet & Clank]In-Flight – Tomihito Nishiura and/or Yasumasa Kitagawa [Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]Memories of Hal – Norihiko Hibino [Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]Master Hand – ??? [Super Smash Bros. for 3DS]Battle (Chaos) – Jamie Dunlap [South Park: The Fractured But Whole]Mystic Cave Zone – Masato Nakamura [Sonic the Hedgehog 2]Training – Kazumi Totaka and/or Shinobu Tanaka [Luigi’s Mansion]God Only Knows – Brian Wilson & Tony Asher (arranged by Garry Schyman) [Bioshock Infinite]

MAIN THEME:

Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo & Yasuake Iwata - World 8 [Super Mario 3D World]

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The Sound Test welcomes yet another big interview guest this week, as Barry Leitch joins me for a chat about his whole legendary career. From his music and sound for a string of popular racing games to his intriguing work on children's toys, we cover a lot of interesting ground. It was fantastic to have Barry on the show, and I hope we talk again soon!

The theme for this week otherwise, though, is final bosses; main antagonists. Along with my own top five, we of course hear some great choices from listeners as we explore some of the most iconic and interesting end baddies of all time.

This week's playlist:

Part 3 – Mike Richmond [Cocoa and the Time Machine 2: 24 Hour Parsley People]Dracula’s Castle – Michiru Yamane [Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]
Imaginary Places – Busdriver [Tony Hawk’s Underground]
Escape – Jonah Senzel [Pony Island]Bigfoot Party – Clint Bajakian, Michael Land and/or Peter McConnell [Sam & Max: Hit the Road]Eeeeeeeeeeeeee – Terry Scott Taylor [Skullmonkeys]Buttville – Tommy Tallarico [Earthworm Jim]Final Zone – Masato Nakamura [Sonic the Hedgehog]EOL Boss 2 – Marten Joustra and Andy Blythe, Michael Giacchino or Matt Furniss [Mickey Mania]Gang-Plank Galleon – David Wise [Donkey Kong Country]Undercaves – Spencer Nilsen, Brian Coburn and/or Andras Magyari [Ecco the Dolphin]Snake Eater – Norihiko Hibino and Cynthia Harrell [Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]Flame of the Ancient World – Mark Morgan [Fallout]Laniakiea – Valentine Parkhomenko [Cradle]Las Vegas – Barry Leitch [Top Gear]
A Very Final Finale – Barry Leitch [Horizon Chase Turbo]Deadbeard’s Battle Theme – Motoi Sakuraba [Golden Sun]
Formidable Oak (Exterior, Interior, Plasm Wraith Battle!) – Asuka Hayazaki, Atsuko Asahi and/or Hajime Wakai [Pikmin 3]Escape – Kazuki Muraoka, Hiroyuki Togo, Takanari Ishiyama, Lee Jeon Myung and/or Maki Kirioka [Metal Gear Solid]The Prince of Darkness – Koji Kondo [The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past]Battle in Japan – Akira Yamaoka and Andrius Klimka [World of Tanks]Terracotta Army (The End) – Gareth Coker [Minecraft: Chinese Mythology]Select – Junk Ozawa and/or Jesahm [Donkey Konga]Master Hand – ??? [Super Smash Bros. for 3DS]Theme of M. Bison – Masahiro Aoki, Hideyuki Fukasawa, Keiki Kobayashi, Takatsugu Wakabayashi and/or Zac Zinger [Street Fighter V]One-Winged Angel – Nobuo Uematsu [Distant Worlds]Ultimate Koopa – Koji Kondo [Super Mario 64]

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Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo & Yasuake Iwata - World 8 [Super Mario 3D World]

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For this episode, I'm joined about halfway for a brand new chat with TDK. He's a regular name on my show, and one of the contributors to ST2, so it's fantastic to welcome him back to The Sound Test. This time, we catch up about his latest album - "Retrospect" - currently available through https://marktdkknight.bandcamp.com !

Besides my talk with TDK, I also take a look at various intriguing peripherals and bits of hardware that have popped up through the history of gaming. Whether it's Rez's Trance Vibrator or Donkey Konga's bongos, you'll hear about some of the most (and least) successful gadgets throughout the years.

Of course, we continue the VGM SongFight battle, move into a challenging round of the SFX Showdown and the News Cop seems particularly irate this week...

This week's playlist:

Build Finish – ??? [Nintendo Labo]Bustin’ Season – DJ Shadow [DJ Hero]
Fear – Adam Freeland [Rez: Infinite]
Rumble – U-God [Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style]Route 66 – Derek Duke [OverWatch]Bike 1 3 – Eishin Kawakami [Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol]
Planet Screen Credits 2 – Hirokazu Tanaka [Game Boy Camera]Level Theme 1 – Kazumi Totaka [Virtual Boy Wario Land]Street Phase – Hirokazu Tanaka [Gumshoe]
GAME A – Hirokazu Tanaka [Gyromite/Robo Gyro]Raid Battle – Junichi Masuda [Pokemon Go]
Howl – Gareth Coker [Ori and the Will of the Wisps]Stonetown – Lorne Balfe [Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure]
You Wouldn’t Know – Jonathan Coulton & Ellen McLain [Lego Dimensions]Put in a Bullet – Kazuhiro Nakamura and/or Junichi Nakatsuru [Time Crisis II]??? – ??? [Point Blank 2]finishline – ??? [Buzz!: The Sports Quiz]
Hoovering with a Hangover – TDK [Retrospect]Sunrise – TDK [Retrospect]CAREFUL WITH THE WALLS! – Shinya Sakamoto, Shigehiro Takenouchi and/or Atsushi Fujio [Falsion]
Café Cubano – Scott Martin [Tropico 5]Select – Junk Ozawa and/or Jesahm [Donkey Konga]
Shake What Your Mamma Gave Ya – Skeewiff [BeatMania]Eve - ??? [Gran Turismo 5]
Final Boss - Tokuhiko Uwabo and/or Shigenori Kamiya [Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse]

MAIN THEME:

Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo & Yasuake Iwata - World 8 [Super Mario 3D World]

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Since I'm away in Ireland this week, I've cooked up another old school ST remaster! This one's our third ever episode, from nearly two years ago.

For more recent Sound Test listeners, be prepared for a change in tone! Not only did my co-host, Dale, and I approach things a lot more casually, but I was a lot more ignorant of VGM as a whole. Really, I was at the beginning of my journey.

I hope these early days are fun to hear though, and it's interesting how many things come up as new to me that I later record in-depth podcasts about!

This week's playlist:

Koji Kondo - Dark World [The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past]
Craig Conner & Stuart Ross - Main Theme [Grand Theft Auto III]
Michael Bartlow - Palm Desert [Road Rash]
Ridiculon - Throw Another Banjo on the Fire [Super Meat Boy: 5th Anniversary]
Jun Ishikawa - The First Course [Kirby Super Star]
John Paesano - Inside the Numbers [Marvel's Spider-Man]
Nathan McCree - Title Theme [Asterix and the Great Rescue]
Koji Kondo - Dire, Dire Docks [Super Mario 64]
Grant Kirkhope - Treasure Trove Cove [Banjo-Kazooie]
??? - ??? [T-Rex Playstation Tech Demo]
Gareth Coker - Light of the Nibel (feat. Aeralie Brighton) [Ori and the Blind Forest]
Ellen Meijers-Gabriel - Slig Barracks [Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus]
David Buckley - Main Theme [Batman: Arkham Knight]
David Wise - Forest Interlude [Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]
Yoko Shimomura - Ryu Stage [Super Smash Bros. for Wii U]
Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose & Morikazu Aoki - Dark Caves [Pokemon Gold and Silver]
Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori - Halo [Halo: Combat Evolved]
Kazumi Totaka - Wii Shop Channel [Nintendo Wii]
Jonathan Coulton & Ellen McLain - You Wouldn't Know [Lego Dimensions]
Jon Hey - Team Select [NBA Jam]
Kazumi Totaka & Shinobu Tanaka - Dark Rooms [Luigi's Mansion]
Hitoshi Sakimoto - The Dalmasca Estersand [Distant Worlds IV]
Josh Mancell - Turtle Woods [Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back]
Ben Daglish - Return of the Mutant Camels [Return of the Mutant Camels]

MAIN THEME:

Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo & Yasuake Iwata - World 8 [Super Mario 3D World]

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I won't be here next week because of a holiday, so this episode gets all kinds of spooky in advance of Halloween. We skulk from the shadows of one creepy track to another as we explore the ghoulish sounds of various horror-themed games.

Despite the darkness, regular features light the way! From news about a new Mario movie, Gotham Knights and more on the horizon from TDK to another twist in the tale of the SongFight, this show is truly packed. And let's not forget about a whole new, haunted edition of the SFX Showdown...

This week's playlist:

Manhunt – Craig Conner [Manhunt]Skeletons in my Closet – The Fat Man and Team Fat [The 7th Guest]
Mad Monster Mansion – Grant Kirkhope [Banjo-Kazooie]
Spooks of Halloween Town – Yoko Shimomura [Kingdom Hearts II]Sadness (arranged) – Junko Tamiya [Sweet Home]India Docks; Smithfield – Frederic Motte [Nightmare Creatures]Haunted Mansion – Graeme Norgate [TimeSplitters]Inner Demon – Nick Arundel [Batman: Arkham Knight]Employment Center – Peter Due [Forgotton Anne]Blackbosom – Masayoshi Soken [Final Fantasy XIV]
Their Faces Still Haunt Us – Ben Crossbones [Organ Trail]Skull Man – Minae Fujii and/or Yasuaki Fujita [Mega Man 4]
Graveyard – Kazumi Totaka [Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins]Boss Theme 1 – Toshiko Tasaki (Anzaki Waraco) [Magical Hat’s Turbo Flight! Adventure]Journey – TDK [Retrospect]Blood Swamps – Andrew Hulshult (arranged by Uncle Boobs) [Doom: Eternal]End Credits – Samuel Laflamme [Outlast] Shifty Boo Mansion – Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo and/or Yasuaki Iwata [Super Mario 3D World]Hail the Nightmare – Ryan Amon, Tsukasa Saitoh, Yuka Kitamura, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Cris Velasco and/or Michael Wandmacher [Bloodborne]Dark Dungeons – Keith Tinman [Addams Family Values]Sandy Wasteland – Keith Tinman [Addams Family Values]Café Cubano – Scott Martin [Tropico 5]Ghosts (Gloomy Manor Ver C) – Chad York, Darren Radtke and/or Mike Peacock [Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon]Credit Line of Whole Staff – Masami Ueda, Shusaku Uchiyama and/or Shyun Nishigaki [Resident Evil 2]MX Credits Mandable – Jeff van Dyck [Alien: Isolation]Main Theme – Ryo Nagamatsu [Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit]

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Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo & Yasuake Iwata - World 8 [Super Mario 3D World]

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Get sat comfortably, class, and prepare for this week's lesson - history! Whether it's Vikings, Ancient Egyptians, the Swinging Sixties or 15th Century Bohemia, this episode dips into a variety of historical video games.

Besides my own Top 5, and choices from my regulars, we hear all sorts of history-inspired fantasy titles and, of course, check in on all the regular features. Test yourself with a new round of the SFX Showdown, get up to date with three more Quickfire News segments and continue the confusion with the ever-mysterious VGM SongFight!

This week's playlist:

Funk You! – Robert Prince [Wolfenstein 3D]Saturday Night at Dirty McNasty’s – Chris Sears, Jim Browski, Dr. Gilo Allen & Duncan “limpdick” Scott [Grant Theft Auto: London 1969]
Cannon Fodder (Guns on the Beach Remix) – Amok (originally composed by Richard Joseph]Hell March – Frank Klepacki [Command & Conquer: Red Alert]North Yankton Memories – Tangerine Dream, The Alchemist, Oh No, Woody Jackson and DJ Shadow [Grant Theft Auto V]Shared Dig – Mothership Loudspeakerz (originally composed by Alexander Brandon, Michiel van den Bos, Andrew G. Sega and/or Dan Gardopee) [Unreal]
Title – Tim Follin [Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos]New Dawn – Neil Baldwin [Erik the Viking]Viking Warlord – Jim B-Reay, Michael Larson and/or Rom Di Prisco [Rune]Judges of the Dead – Gareth Coker [Minecraft: Egyptian Mythology]Title Screen – TDK [Mario’s Time Machine]Jungle Trek – ??? [Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?]Vagrant Song [Deep South] – Ryan Ike & Joshua Du Chene [Where the Water Tastes Like Wine]Snake River Crossing – Larry Phenow [Oregon Trail]Smell of the Game – Daisuke Ishiwatari and Naoki Hashimoto [Guilty Gear Strive]Micromanagement Failure – Ultrasyd [Chipsters EP Remastered] Enemy Attack (Enemy Phase 2) – Noriyuki Iwadare, Isao Mizoguchi and/or Hiroshi Fujioka [Warsong]Stage Theme 01 – Yasuko Yamada and/or Naoto Yagishita [The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy]Imagine Ocean – Martin Galway (arranged and orchestrated by Chris Abbott, Alisdair J. Pickering, Rob Hubbard and Robin Tait) [8-Bit Symphony Pro]Costa del Sol – Nobuo Uematsu [Final Fantasy VII]Café Cubano – Scott Martin [Tropico 5]Fist Fight – Jan Valta and/or Adam Sporka [Kingdom Come: Deliverance]Spear Rhythm (Fretless Salsa) – Stephen Rippy & David Rippy [Age of Empires: Definitive Edition]A Hat in Time: Peace and Tranquility but Buck Bumble theme is spliced in. 

MAIN THEME:

Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo & Yasuake Iwata - World 8 [Super Mario 3D World]

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Snacks at the ready, because this episode takes a look at some of gaming's tastiest delectables. From Pac-Man's fruit to the glorious culinary delights of Final Fantasy XV, you're sure to feel hungry as the show rolls on.

Besides the gastronomic glory, I take a look at three interesting developments for Quickfire News and the SFX Showdown continues with an ever-growing scoreboard. An untrustworthy interloper gets involved in the VGM SongFight, and Daisy spends the majority of the broadcast asleep on me.

This week's playlist:

Main Menu – Masayoshi Ishi [Cooking Mama]Pepsiman – James & Gang [Pepsiman]Recipe For The Perfect Afro – Featurcast [Jet Set Radio]Sunny Drive Downtown – Jonathan Geer [Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3]Pac-Man Remix – Arsenic 1987RVTK-1 – Hiroyuki Shimizu [beatmania GB: Gotcha Mix 2]Pools of Poison – Jeroen TelBlack Dragon Fight Club – Nathan Grigg [Mortal Kombat 11]Golden Axe – Fastloaders [Amiga Rocks]Final Fight – Fastloaders [Amiga Rocks]Mount Volbono – Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii and/or Koji Kondo [Super Mario Odyssey]The Honeyhive – Mahito Yokota and/or Koji Kondo [Super Mario Galaxy]
Choco Island – Soyo Oka [Mario Kart: Super Circuit]Chef – Noriko Nishizaka, Saburo Sasaki and/or Yoko Mizuta [Game & Watch Gallery 2]Federation of Free Traders – Ben Daglish [Federation of Free Traders]San Andreas Theme Song – Young Maylay [GTA: San Andreas]??? – Yasuhisa Ito [Bishi Bashi Special]Credits – Murugan Thiruchelvam, Joe Paine and/or Oliver Hindle [I Am Bread]Big Belly – Grant Kirkhope [Project Dream]GRA-A-ANDMA! – Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi and/or Koji Kondo [The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]Gameboy Horror Theme – Kazumi Totaka and/or Shinobu Tanaka [Luigi’s Mansion]Costa Del Sol – Nobuo Uematsu [Final Fantasy VII]CINDY – Yoko Shimomura [Final Fantasy XV]Home – Toby Fox [Undertale]Clotho (Edit) – Kazuo Wakihara, Hisaki Nimiya and/or Kazimoto [Columns]

MAIN THEME:

Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo & Yasuake Iwata - World 8 [Super Mario 3D World]

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As VGM lovers, we all come across tunes and soundtracks from games we've never played. In this episode, I explore my personal Top 5 games that, despite never playing, have excellent music. My regular listeners get in on the theme too, and plenty of recommendations are thrown around.

Otherwise, Quickfire News continues on strong with three new segments, while bookending rounds of the SFX Showdown should keep you on your feet. I also need the help of a new TTS guardian angel to pronounce one particular legend's name right.

In the VGM SongFight, Mario agrees that Rosalina's odd space signal is a worry, and suggests the help of an old family friend...

This week's playlist:

Track 2 – Alberto J. Gonzalez [Die Maus]Another Winter – Anamanaguchi [Scott Pilgrim vs. The World]Tokyo Daylight – Shoji Meguro [Persona 5]Power Plant (Sparkling Scorpio Stage) – Dominic Ninmark [Mega Man X: Corrupted]Distant Space – Toshiya Yamanaka and/or Osamu Nagano [Star Cruiser]
Moon Over the Castle [Gran Turismo 2]Stal – C418 [Minecraft]Chill it Right (Fre3zer) – Jay Tholen [Hypnospace Outlaw]Ghost of the Grotto (Basidia) – Jay Tholen [Hypnospace Outlaw]The Sinister Six – John Paesano [Marvel’s Spider-Man]Infernum (Sheol) – RIDICULON [The Binding of Isaac: Mutations]Greenvale – Riyou Kinugasa, Takuya Kobayashi and/or Hiromi Mizutani [Deadly Premonition]Akrillic – Tim & Geoff Follin [Plok]Theme 7 – Matt Furniss [Bill’s Tomato Game]Helmet Level 3 – Noriko Nishizaka, Saburo Sasaki and/or Yoko Mizuta[Game and Watch Gallery 2]Pennant Mode Bad End – ??? [Jikkyou Poweful Pro Yakyuu 3]Theme – ??? (potentially Steve Kirk) [Farmville 2]Daytime 1 – Grant Kirkhope [CityVille 2]Nighttime 4 – Grant Kirkhope [CityVille 2]Serenity – Masayoshi Soken[Final Fantasy XIV]Buoy Base Galaxy – Koji Kondo and/or Mahito Yokota [Super Mario Galaxy]Gameboy Horror Theme – Kazumi Totaka and/or Shinobu Tanaka [Luigi’s Mansion]Title – Martin Galway [Green Beret]Terra’s Theme – Nobuo Uematsu [Final Fantasy VI]03 – Gerd Gunter Hoffman, Jurgen Rebhann, Joachim Shafer, Steffen Schungel and/or Klaus Staendike [Knights & Merchants]Becalmed – Robin Beanland [Sea of Thieves]

MAIN THEME:

Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo & Yasuake Iwata - World 8 [Super Mario 3D World]

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Besides a mic-levels blunder at the very beginning, this is one of my favourite Sound Test broadcasts ever.

Within, we celebrate incredible video game music largely brought to the table by my Discord members. Across the course of this episode, you'll hear how many of my regular listeners came to love VGM and the tunes that started their passion. Of course, I've got a Top 5 of my own formative choices, alongside new rounds of Quickfire News and the SFX Showdown.

Particularly special this week is a LIVE call-in interview from Jammin' Sam Miller; the man behind a string of impressive Donkey Kong Country restorations. We discuss his history with the franchise and music, dig a little into his restoration process and even hear about his composing work for an adaptation of War of the Worlds!

In the VGM SongFight battle, we discover that - just like an oft-ridiculed spin-off - Mario is Missing! And it's up to you if Rosalina can track him down or not for next week. Until then, I hope you enjoy this extra-stuffed playlist of VGM goodness and thank you to everyone who contributed choices!

This week's playlist:

Title – Hiroshige Tonomura [DuckTales]Staff Roll – Rainbowdragoneyes [The Messenger]Ice Cap Zone 2 – Brad Buxer [Sonic the Hedgehog 3]Carrera Rapida – Apollo 440 [Rapid Racer]
This Life – Slumpussy [Grand Theft Auto]Stickerbrush Symphony – Jammin’ Sam Miller (originally composed by David Wise) [Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest]Nuts & Bolts – Jammin’ Sam Miller (originally composed by Eveline Novakovic) [Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble!]Treasure Trove Cove (Smash Remix) – Originally composed by Grant Kirkhope [Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]Death by Glamour – Toby Fox [Undertale]Rainbow Road – Kenta Nagata [Mario Kart 64]Rainbow Road – Soyo Oka [Super Mario Kart]Stealthy Steps – Yuzo Koshiro [Streets of Rage](Jibberish Jungle) Danger Ahead + The Darktoon Chase – Christophe Heral [Rayman Origins]Snide’s HQ – Grant Kirkhope [Donkey Kong 64]Page One (Menu Theme) [RESTORED] – Motoi Sakuraba [Golden Sun]Breezy – Nobuo Uematsu [Final Fantasy VIII]Safety in the Sanctuary – Koji Kondo [The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past]Palace Theme – Akito Nakatsuka [Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]Title – Jun Funahashi [Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]Title – Ben Daglish [Dark Fusion]Midnight Ride – Midnight Riders [Left 4 Dead 2]Rip & Tear – Mick Gordon [DOOM]C.H.A.D.’s Broken Wind (Ch 2 Dark World) – Danny Baranowsky [Super Meat Boy]Simple & Clean (PLANITb Remix) – Hikaru Utada and Russell McNamara [Kingdom Hearts]Opening – Shogo Sakai [Super Smash Bros. Melee]Bowser – Hironobu Yahata and/or Shinya Outouge [Mario Party 6]Clash! Gourmet Race - Pumpkin Grand – Jun Ishikawa [Kirby Super Star]Forest Interlude – David Wise [Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest]Boss Battle – Koji Kondo [Super Mario World]Buoy Base Galaxy – Koji Kondo and/or Mahito Yokota [Super Mario Galaxy]
Overworld – Koji Kondo [Super Mario Bros.]

MAIN THEME:

Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo & Yasuake Iwata - World 8 [Super Mario 3D World]

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