Totaka’s Song, the long-running Nintendo game Easter egg, has recently been discovered hidden away inside Mario Kart 8(via CVG). As YouTube user “Somewhat Awesome Games” demonstrates in the ...

Totaka's Song is the creation of Kazumi Totaka, a Japanese composer who has worked as a sound designer for Nintendo for decades. The song naturally takes its name from him and appears in most ...

Kazumi Totaka has for decades composed music for Nintendo games. His very first project for Nintendo, a GameBoy title called X, included this short sequence of notes: Advertisement ...

In the Japanese version, people could hear “Totaka’s Song,” a song written by Nintendo composer Kazumi Totaka, by entering the name “とたけけ.” Now, it turns out the new version of ...

For over 20 years, Nintendo composer and sound designer Kazumi Totaka has hidden the 19-note melody in many titles. It is speculated that in every game Totaka has worked on, he has skillfully ...

Composer Kazumi Totaka is known for hiding his "Totaka's Song" in just about every game he works on, but somehow Wave Race 64 missed out on this fun little bonus.

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube 830k You've likely heard how the Japanese composer Kazumi Totaka is known for slipping a short melody into almost every Nintendo game he has worked on.

One of the best parts of Nintendo's Animal Crossing series is Kazumi Totaka's serene, beautiful background music, which changes based on the time of day you play. Animal Crossing Music, a fan-made ...

For nearly 25 years, Nintendo composer and sound designer Kazumi Totaka has been hiding a signature 19-note melody in games. While he's hardly the first to nefariously lay an easter egg, there's a ...

Kazumi Totaka is one of Nintendo's most experienced and talented composers and sound directors, yet that's probably not the reason that many recognise his name.

Totaka's song is most easily accessible from the title screen of the SNES' Mario Paint, but the quirky ditty has appeared in over a dozen games featuring the work of Nintendo sound designer Kazumi ...