Underwater BGM (Super Mario World)

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"Underwater BGM"
"Underwater BGM" in Super Mario World
The image for "Underwater BGM" from Super Mario World on Nintendo Music.
Image from Nintendo Music
Composed by:
Koji Kondo
Key F major
Time signature 3
4
First appearance Super Mario World (1990)
Latest appearance It's Me, Mario! Stop Motion Shorts ("Balancing Act", 2026)
Arrangement of
"Ground BGM" (Super Mario World)

"Underwater BGM"[1] is a musical theme composed by Koji Kondo for Super Mario World, where it plays in the underwater levels. It is a slow-paced waltz arrangement of "Ground BGM" from the same game in the key of F major. The rhythm of the melody is altered to fit the triple meter time of the piece.

History[edit]

Super Mario series[edit]

Super Mario World[edit]

Super Mario World marks the first appearance of "Underwater BGM".

Additional bongo percussion is added to the instrumentation whenever the player is riding a Yoshi. This remix is titled "Yoshi Underwater BGM" in the Nintendo Music app.

Both "Underwater BGM" and "Yoshi Underwater BGM" return for the same purposes in the port of the game included in Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World.

"Underwater BGM" is also included in the official albums Super Mario World and The 30th Anniversary Super Mario Bros. Music. In the Super Mario World album, the bongos from "Yoshi Underwater BGM" are added to the instrumentation for the second half of the theme.

Icon of an audio speaker. Yoshi Underwater BGM - The remix heard in Super Mario World
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Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2[edit]

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In the Game Boy Advance remake of Super Mario World, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, an arrangement of "Underwater BGM" plays for the same purpose as in the original game. Additional percussion is added to the instrumentation whenever the player rides a Yoshi.

Super Mario Maker / Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS / Super Mario Maker 2[edit]

In Super Mario Maker, Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, and Super Mario Maker 2, the original version of "Underwater BGM" plays in Super Mario World-style underwater-themed levels. "Yoshi Underwater BGM" from Super Mario World plays whenever the player rides a Yoshi.

An ambient arrangement of "Underwater BGM" plays while editing Super Mario World-style underwater-themed levels in the Course Maker. This arrangement uses eight tracks that fade in and out randomly to create a dynamic mix.

Exclusively in Super Mario Maker 2, a music box arrangement of "Underwater BGM" plays in the nighttime version of Super Mario World-style underwater-themed levels.

Icon of an audio speaker. Underwater Theme (Edit) - Super Mario World - The arrangement heard in Super Mario Maker
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Icon of an audio speaker. Underwater Theme (Night) - Super Mario World - The arrangement heard in Super Mario Maker 2
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Mario Teaches Typing series[edit]

Mario Teaches Typing[edit]

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In Mario Teaches Typing, an arrangement of "Underwater BGM" plays in the intermediate level, Mario's Wet World Challenge.

Mario Teaches Typing 2[edit]

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In Mario Teaches Typing 2, an arrangement of "Underwater BGM" plays in the intermediate level, Mario's Wet World Challenge.

Mario Kart World[edit]

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In Mario Kart World, an orchestral arrangement of "Underwater BGM" can play in Free Roam during the day.

It's Me, Mario! Stop Motion Shorts[edit]

In the It's Me, Mario! Stop Motion Shorts episode "Balancing Act", a brief arrangement of "Underwater BGM" plays at the end of the short as Yoshi and Toad fly off the screen.

Gallery[edit]

  • Image for the "Hurry Up!" version of "Underwater BGM" from Super Mario World on Nintendo Music

    Image for the "Hurry Up!" version of "Underwater BGM" from Super Mario World on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "Yoshi Underwater BGM" from Super Mario World on Nintendo Music

    Image for "Yoshi Underwater BGM" from Super Mario World on Nintendo Music

  • Image for the "Hurry Up!" version of "Yoshi Underwater BGM" from Super Mario World on Nintendo Music

    Image for the "Hurry Up!" version of "Yoshi Underwater BGM" from Super Mario World on Nintendo Music

List of Super Mario appearances[edit]

Games[edit]

Work System Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario World Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1990 Original "Underwater BGM"[1] Koji Kondo
Remix "Yoshi Underwater BGM"[1]
Mario Teaches Typing MS-DOS 1992 Arrangement
Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1994 Original "Underwater BGM"[1] Koji Kondo
Past remix (Super Mario World) "Yoshi Underwater BGM"[1]
Mario Teaches Typing PC 1995 Arrangement
Mario Teaches Typing 2 PC 1996 Arrangement
Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 Game Boy Advance 2001 Arrangement
Remix
Super Mario Maker Wii U 2015 Original Koji Kondo
Past remix (Super Mario World)
Arrangement
Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS 2016 Original Koji Kondo
Past remix (Super Mario World)
Past arrangement (Super Mario Maker)
Super Mario Maker 2 Nintendo Switch 2019 Original Koji Kondo
Past remix (Super Mario World)
Past arrangement (Super Mario Maker)
Arrangement
Mario Kart World Nintendo Switch 2 2025 Arrangement "Underwater BGM"[2]

Film and television[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
It's Me, Mario! Stop Motion Shorts 2026 Arrangement

Albums[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario World 1991 Original 「水中BGM」 (Suichū BGM) Koji Kondo
Past remix (Super Mario World)
The 30th Anniversary Super Mario Bros. Music 2015 Original 「水中BGM」 (Suichū BGM) Koji Kondo

Other media[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Nintendo Music 2025[a] Original "Underwater BGM" Koji Kondo
Past remix (Super Mario World) "Yoshi Underwater BGM"
  1. ^ Added on February 3, 2025

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese 水中BGM[1]
Suichū BGM 		Underwater BGM

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Nintendo Music
  2. ^ Mario Kart World pause menu
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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" • "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") • "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" • "Ice Mario" • "Luma" • "Overture" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" • "Space Junk Road" • "The Star Festival" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Bonus Area" • "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" • "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"
Super Mario Odyssey "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!"
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)" • "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" • "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 "Cloudtop Cruise" • "Mario Circuit" ("Mario Kart Stadium") • "Mario Kart 8 Title Screen"
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" • "Goal!" • "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"
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 World / Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
Protagonists and allies Mario • Luigi • Princess Toadstool • Yoshi • Red Yoshi • Blue Yoshi • Yellow Yoshi • Baby Yoshi • Dolphin • Bird
Bosses Koopalings (Iggy Koopa · Morton Koopa Jr. · Lemmy Koopa · Ludwig von Koopa · Roy Koopa · Wendy O. Koopa · Larry Koopa) • Bowser • Reznor • Big Boo
Items 1-Up Mushroom • 3-Up Moon • Berry • Bonus Coin • Cape Feather • Coin • Control Coin • Dragon Coin • Yoshi's Egg • Fire Flower • Gray Coin • Lakitu's Cloud • Magic ball • Power Balloon • Super Mushroom • Super Star • Yoshi's Wings
Objects ! Block • ! Switch • Arrow Sign • Beanstalk • Blue Door • Bonus block • Bridge • Bubble • Cloud Block • Coin Block • Coin countera • Count-Lift • Daikon • Diagonal platform • Dotted-Line Block • Empty Block • Escalator • Fence • Flimsy Lift • Floating island platform • Flying Platform • Flying Prize Block • Grab Block • Gray Block • Gray P Switch • Hidden Block • Ice Block • Note Block • Jumping Board • Key • Lift • Message Block • ON/OFF Switch • O/X Block • Piston Lift • Prize Block • Revolving Door • Rope • Rotating Block • Roulette Block • Semisolid Platform • Single Swing Lift • Skull Raft • Snake platform • Spotlight • Spring platform • Star Road • Stretch Block • Switch Block • Triangular Block • Triple Swing Lift • Yellow Door • Yoshi Cloud
Worlds of Dinosaur Land Yoshi's Island (Yoshi's House · Kappa Mountain) • Donut Plains • Vanilla Dome • Twin Bridges • Forest of Illusion • Chocolate Island • Valley of Bowser • Star World • Special Zone
Moves Carry • Crouch • Dash • Fly • Jump • Looking up • Slide • Spin Jump • Stomp • Swallow • Swim
Enemies and obstacles Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother • Ball 'N' Chain • Banzai Bill • Big Boo • Big Bubble • Big Steely • Blargg • Blurp • Bob-omb • Bony Beetle • Boo Buddy • Boo Buddy Block • Boo Buddy Snake • Boo Crew • Bowser Statue • Bullet Bill • Buzzy Beetle • Chainsaw • Chargin' Chuck • Cheep Cheep • Circling Boo Buddies • Climbing Koopa • Decoy • Dino-Rhino • Dino-Torch • Disappearing Boo Buddy • Dry Bones • Eerie • Falling spike • Fire Snake • Fishbone • Fishin' Boo • Fishin' Lakitu • Floating Mine • Flying Goomba • Fuzzy • Goomba • Grinder • Haunted Hole • Hothead • Ice • Jumping Fire Piranha Plant • Jumping Piranha Plant (Jumping Pumpkin Plant) • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lakitu in a Pipe • Lava • Lava Bubble • Lil Sparky • Magikoopa • Mechakoopa • Mega Mole • Monty Mole • Muncher • Ninji • Para-bomb • Para-Goomba • Pillar • Piranha Plant • Pit • Pokey • Porcu-Puffer • Rex • Rip Van Fish • Shell (flashing) • Shifting wall • Skewer • Spike • Spike (Super Mario World) • Spike Top • Spiny • Spiny Egg • Sumo Brother • Super Koopa • Swooper • Thwimp • Thwomp • Torpedo Ted • Torpedo tube • Turtle Cannon • Unshelled Koopa • Urchin • Volcano Lotus • Wiggler
Music and sound effects "Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Dragon Coin" • "Ending" • "Forest of Illusion (Map Screen)" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Course Clear" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Pin-pon-pan-pon" • "Special World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Valley of Bowser (Map Screen)" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi ni noru toki" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
Other 1-Up Room • Bonus game • Bonus Star • Fall • Giant Gate • Item Stock • Keyhole • Midway Gate • Sand cloud • Timer • Tourist Tips
Further info 1992 Super Mario World • 1993 Super Mario World • Charmy Water: Super Mario World • Gallery (GBA) • Glitches • Mario 'n Me • Mario Bros.a • Mario Mania • Super Mario World: Mario Pachinko • Mario Slot • Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook Super Mario World • Nintendo Music (soundtrack) • Pégate a Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 • Pre-release and unused content • Staff (GBA) • Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World • Super Mario Bingo Party • Super Mario Embroidery World • Super Mario World (album) • Super Mario World (ball-in-a-maze game) • Super Mario World (handheld pinball game) • Super Mario World (slot machine) • Super Mario World (water game) • Super Mario World Coin Game • Super Mario World Lucky Coin • Super Mario World: Mario Kiki Ippatsu • Super Mario World: Mario no Pukapuka Ofuro Land • Super Mario World Mario no UFO Crane • Super Mario World Maze Game • Super Mario World Ojama Shoot • Super Mario World Puzzle Game (1) • Super Mario World Puzzle Game (2) • Super Mario World Puzzle Tsumiki • The Music Man
Adaptations 4koma Manga Ōkoku (Super Mario: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7) • GO! GO! Mario World • Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook Super Mario World • Super Mario (Kodansha manga) (Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 1 · Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 2 · Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 3 · Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 4 · Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 5 · Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 6 · Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 7 · Super Mario World 8 · Super Mario World 9) • Super Mario 4koma Manga Theater (books: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 10) • Super Mario Adventures • Super Mario World (television series) • Super Mario World: Mario to Yoshi no Bōken Land • Super Mario-kun (Volumes: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6)
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