Super Mario Galaxy (theme)

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This article is about the staff credits theme from Super Mario Galaxy. For the musical theme listed as a sound effect in Super Mario Maker 2 under the name "Super Mario Galaxy", see Gusty Garden Galaxy (theme).
"Main Theme (Super Mario Galaxy)" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Main Theme (Super Mario Galaxy 2).
"Super Mario Galaxy"
"Super Mario Galaxy" in Super Mario Galaxy
The image for "Super Mario Galaxy" from Super Mario Galaxy on Nintendo Music.
Image from Nintendo Music
Composed by:
Mahito Yokota
First appearance Super Mario Galaxy (2007)
Latest appearance The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Quotes from
"Overture" (Super Mario Galaxy)
"Gusty Garden Galaxy" (Super Mario Galaxy)
“This piece couldn't be done without an orchestra. As this music caps off Mario's adventures in space, I dedicated a great deal of time to the composition and performance of this song.”
—Liner notes in the Super Mario Galaxy Original Soundtrack

"Super Mario Galaxy",[1][2] also known as "Main Theme",[3] is a musical theme composed by Mahito Yokota for the game of the same name, where it plays during its staff credits. It acts as a triumphant reprise for "Overture" and quotes "Gusty Garden Galaxy" from the same game.

History[edit]

Super Mario Galaxy[edit]

Super Mario Galaxy marks the first appearance of "Super Mario Galaxy", and it returns in the Nintendo Switch ports, Super Mario 3D All-Stars and Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2, for the same purpose. It is also included in the official albums Super Mario Galaxy Original Soundtrack, Super Mario History 1985-2010 and Nintendo Sound Selection: Endings & Credits.

Super Smash Bros. series[edit]

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U[edit]

In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, "Super Mario Galaxy" can play in the Mario Galaxy stage. Compared to the original version of the theme, which is approximately four minutes long, the track has been shortened to 2 minutes and 46 seconds. As the theme was not composed to loop for its Super Mario Galaxy appearance, the track instead restarts from the beginning upon finishing.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the shortened version of "Super Mario Galaxy" from Super Smash Bros. for Wii U can play in any Super Smash Bros.-series and Super Mario-series stage.

Other appearances[edit]

SUPER MARIO BROS. 25th Anniversary Special Sound Track PRESS START Edition[edit]

The arrangement album SUPER MARIO BROS. 25th Anniversary Special Sound Track PRESS START Edition features a live orchestral medley arrangement of several musical themes from Super Mario Galaxy, including "Overture", "Luma", "Egg Planet", "Gusty Garden Galaxy", and "Super Mario Galaxy". It is titled 「スーパーマリオギャラクシー2008 〜PRESS START 2008より〜」 (Sūpā Mario Gyarakushī 2008 〜 PRESS START 2008 Yori 〜, "Super Mario Galaxy 2008 ~From PRESS START 2008~").

Super Mario Officially Licensed Music Folio Series[edit]

As part of the Super Mario Officially Licensed Music Folio Series, Super Mario Series for Piano and Super Mario Series for Easy Piano each include piano arrangements of "Super Mario Galaxy" by Shinobu Amayake titled "Ending Staff Credit Roll". Super Mario Series for Guitar features a guitar arrangement of the same name, arranged by Satoshi Aikawa. Super Mario Series for Piano exclusively features the additional arrangement "Ending Staff Credit Roll (Piano Mini-Score)".

Super Mario Orchestra Concert[edit]

The Super Mario Orchestra Concert series featured a live orchestral medley arrangement of several musical themes from Super Mario Galaxy, including "Super Mario Galaxy".

List of Super Mario appearances[edit]

Games[edit]

Work System Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario Galaxy Wii 2007 Original "Super Mario Galaxy"[1] Mahito Yokota
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Wii U 2014 Remix "Super Mario Galaxy"[4] Mahito Yokota
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Switch 2018 Past remix (Super Smash Bros. for Wii U) "Super Mario Galaxy"[5] Mahito Yokota
Super Mario 3D All-Stars 2020 Original "Super Mario Galaxy"[1] Mahito Yokota
Super Mario Galaxy 2025 Original "Super Mario Galaxy"[1] Mahito Yokota
Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 Original "Super Mario Galaxy"[1] Mahito Yokota

Albums[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario Galaxy Original Soundtrack 2008 Original "Super Mario Galaxy" Mahito Yokota
Super Mario History 1985-2010 2010 Original "Main Theme" Mahito Yokota
SUPER MARIO BROS. 25th Anniversary Special Sound Track PRESS START Edition 2010 Arrangement 「スーパーマリオギャラクシー2008 〜PRESS START 2008より〜」 (Sūpā Mario Gyarakushī 2008 〜 PRESS START 2008 Yori 〜) Mahito Yokota
Nintendo Sound Selection: Endings & Credits 2015 Original "Super Mario Galaxy" Mahito Yokota

Other media[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario Series for Piano 2011 Arrangement "Ending Staff Credit Roll" Shinobu Amayake
Arrangement "Ending Staff Credit Roll (Piano Mini-Score)" Shinobu Amayake
Super Mario Series for Easy Piano Arrangement "Ending Staff Credit Roll" Shinobu Amayake
Super Mario Series for Guitar Arrangement "Ending Staff Credit Roll" Satoshi Aikawa
Nintendo Music 2024 Original "Super Mario Galaxy" Mahito Yokota

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Nintendo Music
  2. ^ Super Mario Galaxy Original Soundtrack
  3. ^ Super Mario History 1985-2010
  4. ^ Super Smash Bros. Wii U sound test
  5. ^ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sound test
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Recurring themes
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. "Round 1 BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong (NES) "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Country "Aquatic Ambiance" • "Bonus Room Blitz" • "Cave Dweller Concert" • "Cranky's Theme" • "The Credits Concerto" • "DK Island Swing" • "Fear Factory" • "Forest Frenzy" • "Funky's Fugue" • "Gang-Plank Galleon" • "Ice Cave Chant" • "Life in the Mines" • "Lost a Balloon" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Simian Segue" • "Treetop Rock" • "Voices of the Temple" • "Well Done"
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Crocodile Cacophony (K. Rool's Theme)" • "Lockjaw's Saga (Lockjaw's Locker)" • "Run, Rambi! Run! (Parrot Chute Panic)" • "Snakey Chantey (Rattle Battle)" • "Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast)"
Donkey Kong 64 "DK Rap"
Donkey Kong Country Returns "Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series Mario Bros. (NES) "Title BGM"
Wrecking Crew series Wrecking Crew "Bonus Phase" • "Golden Hammer" • "Phase BGM"
Super Mario series Super Mario Bros. "Castle BGM" • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" • "Invincibility BGM" • "Underground BGM" • "Underwater BGM"
VS. Super Mario Bros. "Gyōmu-yō Mario Namae-ire"
Super Mario Bros. 2 "Boss BGM" • "Ending" • "Final Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Underground BGM"
Super Mario Bros. 3 "Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" • "Bros. Battle" • "Ending" • "Fortress BGM" • "Fortress Boss" • "Ground BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "Music Box" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "Warp Zone" • "World 1 Map (Grass Land)" • "World 2 Map (Desert Land)" • "World 3 Map (Water Land)" • "World 4 Map (Giant Land)" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - On the Ground" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - In the Sky" • "World 6 Map (Ice Land)" • "World 7 Map (Pipe Land)" • "World 8 Map (Dark Land)"
Super Mario Land "Birabuto Kingdom BGM" • "Chai Kingdom BGM" • "Easton Kingdom BGM"
Super Mario World "Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Ending" • "Forest of Illusion (Map Screen)" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · "Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Special World (Map Screen)" • "Star World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Valley of Bowser (Map Screen)" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
Super Mario 64 "Big Boo's Haunt" • "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "The Final Battle" • "Hazy Maze Cave" • "Lethal Lava Land" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Opening" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll" • "Stage Boss" • "Title Theme"
Super Mario Sunshine "Isle Delfino" ("Ricco Harbor" · "Staff Credits") • "Secret Course"
New Super Mario Bros. "Castle Theme" • "Ground Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Mega Mario" • "Switch On!" • "Tower Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy "Buoy Base Galaxy" • "Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Final Battle with Bowser" • "The Galaxy Reactor" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "The Honeyhive" • "Ice Mario" • "King Bowser" • "Luma" • "Overture" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" • "Space Junk Road" • "The Star Festival" • "Super Mario 2007" • "Super Mario Galaxy" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Bonus Area" • "Bowser Jr. Battle" • "Castle Theme" • "Coast Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Forest Theme" • "Ghost House Theme" • "Lava Cave / Underground Ruins Theme" • "Lava Theme" • "Title Theme" • "Toad House Minigame" • "Underwater Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy 2 "Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla" • "Bowser's Galaxy Generator" • "Fated Battle" • "Melty Monster Galaxy" • "Puzzle Plank Galaxy" • "Slimy Spring Galaxy" • "Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer Theme" • "Teleporter Melody"
Super Mario 3D Land "Beach Theme" • "Castle Theme" • "Main Theme" • "Snow Course" • "Victory Parade"
New Super Mario Bros. U "Ground Theme" ("Athletic Theme")
Super Mario 3D World "A Boss Approaches" • "Chainlink Charge" • "Piranha Creeper Creek" • "Super Bell Hill"
Super Mario Maker "Title Theme" • "Flying Battleship Theme"
Super Mario Odyssey "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!" • "New Donk City"
Dr. Mario series Dr. Mario "Chill" • "Fever" • "Game Over" • "Selection Screen" • "Title Screen" • "Vs. Game Over"
Mario Kart series Super Mario Kart "Awards Ceremony (1st – 3rd Place)" • "Bowser Castle" • "Donut Plains" • "Ghost Valley" • "Mario Circuit" • "Rainbow Road" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen"
Mario Kart 64 "Battle Arenas" • "Choco Mountain" • "D.K.'s Jungle Parkway" • "Frappe Snowland" • "Kalimari Desert" • "Koopa Troopa Beach" • "Luigi Raceway" • "Mario Kart 64 Title Screen" • "Moo Moo Farm" • "Rainbow Road" • "Results (1st − 4th Place)" • "Staff Credits" • "Toad's Turnpike"
Mario Kart: Super Circuit "Bowser Castle" • "Peach Circuit"
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! "Baby Park" • "Luigi Circuit" • "Peach Beach"
Mario Kart DS "Cheep Cheep Beach" • "Luigi's Mansion" • "Peach Gardens" • "Waluigi Pinball"
Mario Kart Wii "Coconut Mall" • "Grumble Volcano" • "Luigi Circuit" • "Wii Maple Treeway" • "Moo Moo Meadows" • "Mushroom Gorge" • "Rainbow Road" • "Wario's Gold Mine"
Mario Kart 7 "Neo Bowser City" • "Piranha Plant Slide" • "Rainbow Road" • "Toad Circuit"
Mario Kart 8 "Bowser's Castle" • "Cloudtop Cruise" • "Mario Circuit" ("Mario Kart Stadium") • "Mario Kart 8 Title Screen" • "Rainbow Road" • "Twisted Mansion"
Mario Party series Mario Party 9 "Good Job!"
Wario franchise Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 "Main Theme"
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! "Pyoro: Stage" • "Sci-Fi (Dribble & Spitz) - Drifting Away" • "Title" ("Reality (Dr. Crygor) - Stage")
WarioWare: Twisted! "Mona Pizza"
WarioWare: Touched! "Ashley's Theme"
Yoshi franchise Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island "Athletic BGM" • "Bowser" • "Flower Field BGM" • "Opening Melody" • "Powerful Mario" • "Yoshi's Island"
Yoshi's Story "Yoshi's Song" ("Yoshis on the Beach") • "Yoshi's Story!" • "Yoshi's Tale"
Luigi's Mansion series Luigi's Mansion "Title Theme (Humming)"
Mario vs. Donkey Kong series Mario vs. Donkey Kong "Mini Mario Stage" • "Title Theme"
Super Smash Bros. series Super Smash Bros. Melee "Rainbow Cruise"
Other The Legend of Zelda "Important Item Acquired" • "Magic Whistle Melody" • "Overworld Theme"
Mario Paint "Drawing Board 1" • "Gnat Attack: Level 1" • "Save & Load"
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars "Beware of Forest Mushrooms" • "Hello, Happy Kingdom" • "Super Mario House"
Miscellaneous "Galop infernal" • "Mute City" • "Title BGM" (Excitebike) • "Totakeke's theme"
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Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) / Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo Switch)
Playable characters Mario • Luigi
Forms Bee Mario • Rainbow Mario • Boo Mario • Ice Mario • Fire Mario • Spring Mario • Flying Mario
Non-playable characters Apricot Luma • Princess Peach • Rosalina • Lumas • Polari • Hungry Lumas • Lumalees • Comet Luma • Toads • Toad Brigade (Toad Brigade captain · Mailtoad · Blue Toad · Yellow Toad · Green Toad) • Star Bunnies • Honeybees • Queen Bee • Boards • Ray • Penguins • Coach • Penguru • Penguin Racers • Gearmos • Worm • Spooky Speedster • Guppy • Cosmic Mario
Enemies Amp • Atomic Boo • Ball Beamer • Banzai Bill • Bat • Big Ruby Rock • Blooper • Bob-omb • Bomb Boo • Bomp • Bone Twister • Bonefin • Boo • Bullet Bill • Cataquack • Cheep Cheep • Chomp • Clampy • Cluckboom • Crabber • Dry Bones • Electrogoomba • Fire Shooter • Flipbug • Giant Gringill • Golden Chomp • Goomba • Goombeetle • Grand Goomba • Gringill • Ice bat • Ice Bubble • Jam-o'-War • Jammyfish • Koopa Troopa • Lava Bubble • Li'l Cinder • Magikoopa • Mandibug • Mecha-Bowser • Micro Goomba • Mikey Mine • Mini Chomp • Monty • Octoguy • Piranha Plant • Pokey Head • Pokeynut • Pokeyplant • Pulse Beam • Pumpkinhead Goomba • Rocto • Ruby Rock • Sentry Beam • Sentry Garage • Slurple • Space Mine • Spiky Topman • Spiny Cheep-Cheep • Spiny Piranha Plant • Spoing • Spangler • Spring Topman • Spring Vault • Thwomp • Topmini • Torpedo Ted • Tox Box • Tracks • Undergrunt • Urchin • Water Shooter • Wiggler • Zap Ball
Obstacles Banzai Bill Cannon • Bars / crystal • Bill Blaster • Black hole • Bramble • Burner • Cannon • Cannonball • Chomp box • Crushing pillar • Dark matter • Deadly quicksand • Electric Ball • Electric rail • Eye Beamer • Fire Bar • Fire geyser • Fireball • Freezing water • Giant prickly plant • Gravity field • Honey • Ice Ball • Lava • Lava burst • Lava Geyser • Lava tide • Meat • Meteor • Moving sand • Mud • Poisonous swamp • Prickly plant • Quicksand • Sand tide • Snow • Spike • Spiky iceberg • Spotlight • Spring • Torpedo tube • Water tide • Whirlpool • Wind
Bosses Dino Piranha • King Kaliente • Mandibug Stack • Bugaboom • Megaleg • Kamella • Tarantox • Topmaniac • Bowser • Bouldergeist • Bowser Jr. • Major Burrows • Baron Brrr • Undergrunt Gunner • Kingfin
Items and power-ups ? Coin • 1-Up Mushroom • Bee Mushroom • Bomb • Boo Mushroom • Coin • Fire Flower • Gold Shell • Grand Star • Green Power Star • Green Shell • Ice Flower • Key • Life Mushroom • Note • Power Star • Purple Coin • Rainbow Star • Red Power Star • Red Shell • Red Star • Silver Star • Spring Mushroom • Star Bit • Star Chip
Objects ? Block • Airship • Arrow Sign • Banandelion • Bar • Beacon • Block • Blue switch • Bob-omb dispenser • Bolt • Bolt Lift • Bone • Bowser Statue • Brick Block • Bubble • Bubbler • Butterfly • Cage • Cannon • Case • Cloud • Coconut • Coin Block • Conveyor Belt • Cosmic block • Crate • Crystal • Dome • Fish • Flipswitch Panel • Floaty Fluff • Flower (environmental object) • Flower (platform) • Gold Treasure Box • Giant Star Bit • Gravity spotlight • Gravity switch • Ground Pound Switch • Hanging vine • Hole • Honey wall • Ice • Key Door • Launch Star • Leaf pile • Lever Switch • Lift • Matter • Pole • Portrait • Pull Star • Pyramid • Robot turtle • Rock spire • Rolling Ball • Rubbery bulb • Seagull • Semisolid Platform • Shock Wave Generator • Shrinking platform • Sign • Sliding block • Sling Pod • Sling Star • Snow sculpture • Snowman • Star Wand • Springboard • Sproutle Vine • Starshroom • Stone block • Stone circle / Shell circle • Stone wheel • Swing • Tennis ball • Tiny lamp • Torch • Tornado • Trash • Treasure chest • UFO • Underwater ring • Valve • Volcano • Warp Pad • Warp Pipe • Water spout • Waterfall • Watermelon • Yellow square
Locations Terrace Good Egg Galaxy • Honeyhive Galaxy • Loopdeeloop Galaxy • Flipswitch Galaxy • Bowser Jr.'s Robot Reactor • Sweet Sweet Galaxy
Fountain Space Junk Galaxy • Rolling Green Galaxy • Battlerock Galaxy • Hurry-Scurry Galaxy • Bowser's Star Reactor • Sling Pod Galaxy
Kitchen Beach Bowl Galaxy • Bubble Breeze Galaxy • Ghostly Galaxy • Buoy Base Galaxy • Bowser Jr.'s Airship Armada • Drip Drop Galaxy
Bedroom Gusty Garden Galaxy • Freezeflame Galaxy • Dusty Dune Galaxy • Honeyclimb Galaxy • Bowser's Dark Matter Plant • Bigmouth Galaxy
Engine Room Gold Leaf Galaxy • Sea Slide Galaxy • Toy Time Galaxy • Bonefin Galaxy • Bowser Jr.'s Lava Reactor • Sand Spiral Galaxy
Garden Deep Dark Galaxy • Dreadnought Galaxy • Matter Splatter Galaxy • Melty Molten Galaxy • Snow Cap Galaxy
Gate Gateway Galaxy • Boo's Boneyard Galaxy
Planet of Trials Rolling Gizmo Galaxy • Bubble Blast Galaxy • Loopdeeswoop Galaxy • Grand Finale Galaxy
Other Castle Gardens • Comet Observatory • Garage • Library • Bowser's Galaxy Reactor
Moves Backward somersault • Carry • Climb • Crouch • Dash • Double jump • Double kick • Fly • Ground pound • Jump • Kick • Long jump • Rocket Start • Co-Star Super Jump • Side somersault • Skate • Slide • Spin • Spin jump • Start Dash • Stomp • Sweep kick • Swim • Triple jump • Wall jump
Gameplay elements amiiboa • Bob-omb Blasting • Completion • Galaxies • Gravity • Letter • Life meter • Mandibug clan • Missions • Octo-Army • Prankster Comet • Ray surfing • Star List • Star Pointer • Topman Tribe • Trial Galaxies • Wii Message Board
Story elements Rosalina's Storybook • Star Festival
Music "Battlerock Galaxy" • "Buoy Base Galaxy" • "Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Final Battle with Bowser" • "Fleet Glide Galaxy" • "The Galaxy Reactor" • "Gateway Galaxy" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "The Honeyhive" • "Ice Mario" • "King Bowser" • "Luma" • "Overture" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" • "Space Junk Road" • "The Star Festival" • "Super Mario 2007" • "Super Mario Galaxy" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
Web media Anket • "Cosmic Power-Up with Mario and Yoshi" • Iwata Asks • Playtest: Super Mario Galaxy • Quick Poll • Super Mario Galaxy (Flash game)
Further info 7-Eleven • Baskin-Robbins • Gallery • Glitches • Mario Galaxy Orchestra • Multimedia • Nintendo Music (soundtrack) • Original soundtrack • Pre-release and unused content • Quotes • Staff (Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2) • Super Mario 128 • Super Mario 3D All-Stars • SUPER MARIO BROS. 25th Anniversary Special Sound Track PRESS START Edition • Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary Trial Play Event • Super Mario Galaxy Official Sticker Collection • Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 • Super Mario History 1985-2010 • Trading cards
a Exclusive to the Nintendo Switch version
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