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Mario Kart 64 Original Soundtrack

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Tracks

52 minutes total
  1. Title
  2. Circuit
  3. Farm
  4. Beach
  5. Desert
  6. Highway
  7. Snow
  8. Mountain
  9. Castle
  10. Jungle
  11. Obake
  12. Rainbow
  13. Battle
  14. Select
  15. Result #1 (Win)
  16. Result #2 (Lose)
  17. Result #3 (VS & Battle)
  18. Star
  19. Prize #1 (1st-3rd)
  20. Prize #2 (4th-8th)
  21. Staff Roll
  22. Start Grid #1 (GP & VS)
  23. Start Grid #2 (Time Attack & Battle)
  24. Final Lap
  25. Goal in #1 (1st)
  26. Goal in #2 (2nd-4th)
  27. Goal in #3 (5th-8th)
  28. Game Over
  29. MARIO
  30. LUIGI
  31. YOSHI
  32. KINOPIO
  33. DONKEY KONG
  34. WARIO
  35. PEACH
  36. KOOPA
  37. Special SE
  • Released Sep 19, 1997 by Pony Canyon (catalog no. PCCG-00419, retail 2548 yen).
  • Detailed release notes and credits at VGMdb.

Reviews

The best release of the Mario Kart 64 soundtrack.

Recommended

Reader review by Jon Turner

This is the third Mario Kart 64 CD, and it certainly is the best. The music itself, for those of you who don't know, may not be much, but it is certainly one of the more lively soundtracks written for the Nintendo 64. Many Mario Kart fans will recognize the same old tunes we heard in the game, but most surprisingly, one track, "Result #1 (Win)" is much longer than it was on the other Mario Kart CD, Mario Kart 64: Race Tracks, and in fact there is a new part heard in the song on the piano keys that couldn't be heard in Race Tracks!

The producers managed to fix major problems that were on Race Tracks; best of all there is no dead space in between any tracks, the biggest problem on the Race Tracks CD.

While these are great factors to cheer about, Mario Kart 64 fans will be surprised at the differences of the voices of Luigi, Toad (Kinopio in Japan), Wario, and Peach. The other voices are all the same, but Luigi, Toad, and Peach have different voices than in the American version; they sound high-pitched and twice as annoying. Wario, on the other hand, has a much deeper voice than in the American version, but some of the best lines he had on the Race Tracks CD have been changed completely. Instead of growling "I'm-a Wario! I'm-a gonna win-a!", he squawks lame lines such as "Oh, I missed!" and "Wario is gonna win!" This was rather surprising and unfortunate since I found the original voices outrageously funny (except for Peach's), but I guess it had to do with cultural differences.

One other bonus on the CD is one track that has sound effects. All of the sound effects sound the same, with the exception of the opening voice (Mario says "Welcome to Mario Kart!" in the American version, but in this one, it's a bunch of kids who shout excitedly "Mario Kart!") and the announcer (instead of Mario announcing the "Mario Grand Prix", it is a cool DJ-like voice that says through a vibrating microphone "Mario Grand Prix").

Don't pass up the opportunity to get this soundtrack; it has lots of things that the other two CD releases didn't have, and it leaves them in the dust in comparison.

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