Longtime Nintendo composer Mahito Yokota reflected on how he came to use orchestral music for the game in a 2007 episode of the Iwata Asks Q&A series. Super Mario Galaxy was unique in that it was the first Nintendo game to have a full symphony orchestra playing its score. A screengrab from ‘Super Mario Galaxy’ | Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP via Getty Images ‘Super Mario Galaxy’ was the first Nintendo game with a full orchestra Some of their efforts were so successful that they imported them into another highly-anticipated Wii game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Nintendo took fans out of this world - literally - and created an experience unlike any other. Nintendo will likely provide a full English translation of the Iwata Asks column in the near future, so be on the lookout for it.In 2007, Super Mario Galaxy pushed the limits of just how far a video game could go. See if you can see and hear the choreography for yourself. The text that pops up in the video shows Mario running forward, stopping and turning back at site of the first Goomba, then turning back around and running toward the Goomba, then finally stomping on the Goomba. During the Iwata Asks feature, Kondo revealed that he's recently come to the conclusion that he subconsciously might have choreographed the game's famous world 1-1 music to how a player might approach the first Goomba attack.

The second video is from the original Super Mario Bros. The whole staff actually visited the studio to see the music being recorded, Yokota revealed in the interview.

Kondo is in there, as is Shigeru Miyamoto. The frist one shows the orchestral recording process. There are a couple of notable videos embedded in the feature: Different from most of the other Galaxy songs, this one uses band instruments like trumpets and trombones. One of these included a 'big band' song that's used in Yoshi's Galaxy. As detailed in the feature, Kondo's work on Mario Galaxy 2 was limited to just five tricks. Wii), and Nintendo music legend Koji Kondo. In the hot seat opposite Satoru Iwata were sound director Mahito Yokota, newcomer contributor Ryo Nagamatsu (who previously worked on New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo Japan also gave Galaxy 2's musical component a push today with a new Iwata Asks column focused exclusively on music.

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