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How Mario Music Gets Made
Ask Nintendo sound composer Koji Kondo what his favorite game-biz memory is, and the answer comes pretty quickly. “A lot of people remember how Paul McCartney invited Shigeru Miyamoto to a concert when he played in Japan,” he said in a Famitsu interview this week, “but Miyamoto actually brought me along to that so he could introduce me as the ‘Mario music guy.’ Paul and his wife Linda responded by singing the melody to me — ‘Oh, the da da dah da da dah dah guy!’ I’d always been a fan of the Beatles, so the fact that they immediately recalled the melody was a really proud moment for me.” How did the man behind some of the most recognizable tunes in games get his start, anyway
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How Mario Music Gets Made
