Super Mario World - Castle Theme 

Yes.

Facts!

Real

The Super Mario World OST always felt like, "Look how many percussion tracks we have now! We can do snare drums, steel drums, AND bongos."

Interesting fact- or rather story. A Sony engineer walked in on his child playing a NES. He thought the sound chip left a lot to be desired. So he wrangled his superiors to co-ordinate with Nintendo on this which culminated with Sony designing and making the sound chip for the SNES. The contract they drew up was with a view for them to work together on a CD addon for the SNES, but the subsequent deal fell through resulting in Sony making the playstation. The sound chip according to Koji Kondo- who wrote the music for super mario world- said the issue with the chip was that it worked well, but had no inbuilt sound fonts, so he had extra work designing those to

I won't say it not including the castle gate sound makes it bad, I love this rendition. I'd also say that Dancing Mad from FF6 just isn't right unless Kefka's laugh isn't part of the track before the song repeats. It's part of the experience.

@@WhatupitsTetra That is the perfect analogy! I'm reminded of Kara Comparetto and her Chrono Trigger soundtrack, where she voiced the "Ha!" sound effect on the Millennial Fair track. It would have just sounded wrong without it, just like Dancing Mad would sound wrong without Kefka's laugh.

yeah I raised my eyes to look at the timer more than once while listening 😂

It caught me off guard in my earbuds and went OPE THERE IT IS

Thanks! The game footage was from my own play through. There are some tricks you just never forget!