My favorite letter in the Mario Paint title has to be R! There’s nothing more fun than making that little guy run around. I wonder what he’s saying anyway??
Was playing Valkyrie No Densetsu recently. Learning Hiragana and Katakana comes in really handy for passwords in old Japanese games. I recommend all serious gamer should learn them.
@@Sarcophagus74 There's no insult more emotionally-devastating than... **CHECKS NOTES** a nonsense word taken from a webcomic that was used to reference an in-production business project.
Man, I spent so much time 'playing' Mario Paint. I used to rent it from a local store and they would put it into a plastic tub with the game and accessories.
I remember my folks bringing me home Mario paint when my mom picked up my brother who worked in electronics at bradlees store along with Star tropics and battletoads. To say it was a great week in my gaming catalogue. I remember hearing the song and thinking nothing of it for years, thought it was part of the game. Who'd have known lol...i wonder if theres one in mario artist in 64DD
I remember it too. I thought it was unusual but that’s all. Actually if you click other letters while it’s playing it gets altered. Try I and hear it backwards!
@@GTV-Japan since I was the only cool kid who has a SNES and a pool everyone wanted to be my friend for the perks lol. My mom used to say hey u and u you don't even know my son's name you can use the pool share the game but this is your last visit.....that mouse for Mario paint is a hot highly wanted peripheral. I got a copy of a sealed Mario paint graded game pak. I only graded it cuz of the mouse. People paying big bucks for it. Also Luigi's mansion I thought someone found the kk...maybe it was just in the debug stuff
@@GTV-Japan i hear ya, maybe someday the tune will show up in one of nintendos symphonies lol. Well I gotta catch a flight to D.C. They got me doing a weeks video engineering at the Capitol building for election crap. if I'm lucky I can sleep at the Watergate hotel lol....did you ever hear or see anything about the Nintendo owned hotel in your hood? I saw Paulo from Tokyos video it looked pretty badass. Curious if maybe someday we can collab on it and it's history. I got work in Tokyo in August to October after the Netflix stuff finishses up and gets it's airplay. Looking like it could turn into a monthly production for esports coverage and maybe drone racing. While I'm in Japan I was hoping to buy you a beer and a gigamac lol. Plenty of time so don't go booking any 6 months vacations anytime soon. I gotta hit the airport up, just started the car. Talk to you soon. There is WiFi on the flight atleast
It's always bothered me how the tempo of the song seems to suddenly slow down at the end, and last few notes of the song come much slower than you would expect.
@@GTV-Japan I'm no expert, having been born in 1980, but I think that Sega's lack of success might be because the American video game crash didn't have the same repercussions over here. While I had an Atari 800XL and various friends had Atari 2600s, Germany overall was Commodore 64 territory. Atari's failure didn't put a dent in that at all, and gaming as a whole didn't have as bad a reputation because of it. Also, arcades weren't common over here because coin operated games had more of a gambling connotation, so we only got the odd machine or two in random diners, airports, bowling alleys or other public spaces, not a whole bunch of them in dedicated buildings directed at kids. So while Nintendo of America promoted the Famicom as an entertainment system with a toy robot and a VCR design to avoid getting lumped in with Atari, and later as a way to bring Arcade games home, it launched in 1986 in Europe as just another game system for kids without a gimmick to draw attention to it. And from what I can recollect, the NES didn't really take off until the Game Boy made gaming wildly popular, which more or less coincided with our version of Nintendo Power (called "Club Nintendo" over here) instilling brand loyalty in its readers. The chip shortage of the late 80s might have been another factor in Nintendo not promoting the NES as much over here. The Master System made even less of an impact in 1987, having fewer ads, fewer games and no Club Sega magazine. The Mega Drive fared much better for a while, but only until Sega confused parents with all of the add-ons and extensions. And the Saturn and the Dreamcast only reached the most hardcore of gamers, never gaining the popularity of the Super Nintendo, the N64 or the Playstation. Or PCs, which became widespread around that time, as the heir of the C64 and Amiga. I hope that wasn't too much rambling. I always find it interesting to look at other markets, and how different things went over there.
@MichaelHeide a lot of that are things assessed after the fact. I don’t believe a lot of the narratives anyway. It really comes down to marketing and games and for some reason it was very strong in Germany and having German translations Probably helped a lot.
I wonder which game with this song delays the last note the longest, seems like they stopped delaying it since the GameCube era and it plays with a normal rhythm most of the time now.
I remember many (many) years ago there was a guy that did a series of videos on this exact subject! So it's definitely been one of my all time favorite easter eggs since. it's always been the tradition to get K.K. Song ASAP in each new installment ever since I discovered it in. this even had stuff I'd never seen before like that one in the mario artist 64DD game? so I guess people are finding new instances all the time, I love it. so it's nice to have all the known ones in one place.
The German version gives you a completely new song if you use the name "MOYSE". (Claude Moyse was the chief translator back in the 90s for German Nintendo games, and he hid a lot of weird little jokes in translations, and somehow managed to get a completely different song in there. (Very German 90s Techno)
I think I encounter the one in Animal Crossing City Folk by accident because every time I go to the city I always leave Kapp'n the whistle all the music the Main Boating Ride, Marine Songs 2001, and then there was that song because I was young at the time I didn't know what it was I hear the arrangement in Mario Paint possibly three years later after that peculiar medley keep me questioning and they told me what it was. . On a side note I've been playing Animal Crossing city folk back in 2011 before I heard they were making a new one on the 3DS later known to be New leaf on the Latin Club Nintendo magazine
0:35 I remembered playing that in Mario Paint and glove going... "AHHH!" at the previous time mentioned and again at 0:40. I have that song in my library in the recent Animal Crossing. Catchy and simple. 🎵😊Good video.
@@GTV-Japan When I got a game over for the first time, I was looking at the game over screen, with the coins (I had four during this time) disappearing and I thought the game soft locked (I didn't know how to use the Game Boy much at the time since I was young) and Totaka's Song played several minutes later and I was like "Huh? How did the game do that!?"
i've been fascinated with totaka's song ever since i heard it in mario paint as a kid thanks for this video, your content's always so great and underrated
Oh jeez, Yoshi Touch & Go (or as my friends would say, Go & Touch Yoshi). I bought that game thinking it was going to be an actual 2D Yoshi platformer, and then the disappointment came in.
I really love learning about these game that were before my time. The first game I experienced was Halo ce, sitting on my dads lap as a baby. It's fun seeing things like this :)
I don't always comment on the videos because many times I can't think of anything to say, but since I haven't done so in a while, I'll just say, thank you for showing us these things.
This was neat. I wonder if there are any "homages" to this hidden in unofficial games. Like some Totaka fan who snuck it into his indie game or something.
Wait, so...where're the legend and the history of it in the video exactly? All we've got is just a list of it's appearances, but the title said there's a Legend and there's a History. Is there no history behind it?
The legend is that he made the song and hid it in some games. The history is that it started in 1992 and not every game has it and some have been tricked and that he’s still making music and the song could appear again someday.
@@GTV-Japan oh....ok, so there's indeed some history, it's just that it's kinda borring, I guess. Anyway, thanks for the video and thanks for the answer, GTV!
For some reason, Totaka's Song creeps me out more than most horror films. Something about it gets under my skin the same way Lavender Town's song does or the THX sound. Anyone else feel similarly?
