Favorite versions of the Super Mario Bros. 1 overworld theme.

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As we all know by now, the overworld theme from Super Mario Bros. 1 is one of the most well known if not the most well known song in the video game industry, and of course like a lot of famous music these days, it got remixed and covered quite a few times over the years. so I figured why not list our favorite versions of this classic and iconic theme.
Here's a few of my favorites to start this off.
- This one is pretty obscure, as it was released only in Japan back when the original game was still new, and it gives me a bit of a Sonic Generations Classic Sonic kind of feel due to the mixture between the original 8 bit theme and real instruments which is probably why I love it so much, seriously this remix needs more love then it currently gets.

- This remix just screams fucking epic, arranged by Motoi Sakuraba for a japanese only album of Famicom remixes. this remix sounds like if Mario is on his most epic quest yet. I can imagine him going through a mushroom kingdom that's been heavily corrupted by the Koopa troop, ready to storm through Peach's castle to fight Bowser and his army and to save the Princess and the Mushroom Kingdom once and for all.

- This is just so upbeat and catchy and it really fits the fun and energetic tone of not only the Mario Party series but the Mario series in general in my opinion.

- a pretty different version of the classic theme, getting rid of the lead melody but keeping the overall harmony and beat of the classic theme, however despite it being a bit different from the norm, it's still really catchy and it fits the game very well.

This is the defintion of catchy, now I never personally played Sunshine at the time of this posting, but this theme is definitely fucking catchy and pretty unique as well, going for an acapella as opposed to actual intruments, and I have to say, the results are amazing making it one of the catchest variations of the classic theme.


So now I wanna know, what's your favorite version of the iconic SMB1 theme?
Comment away!!!!!!!!

While I do prefer Offical remixes, Fan remixes are fine too so feel free to post those too if there's some you really like.
 
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I may be a little biased since it's from Super Mario World, but the SMB theme that secretly plays in the special world theme after a while is pretty cool and it took me by surprise long ago. It sounds very nice:
(Around 32 seconds into the video. It takes a lot longer to reach the SMB theme in the actual game though)
 


This is a really nice cover. And kinda unexpected too: At one moment, you are in a creepy dark room with scary music,
the other moment you are surrounded by all kinds of instruments playing the famous piece. Very catchy
 
I have a hard time picking a favorite, due to how many damn versions there are, though if I had to pick one that I find rather overlooked then it's the Donkey Konga version:


This song also has a part of the overworld theme and it blends into the rest of the song very nicely:
 
Just a Wario fan said:
Ah, the memories on this one. Not so much because of this game, but because this version was used in nearly every unofficial free Mario game on the internet.
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To me it was:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/41566
(Mario scene creator main theme) But I remember hearing it with different samples.

Super Mario Ghetto's theme (A Black Mario hunts down his white counterpart)
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/34322
Another one, whose original flash is long gone.

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If it wasn't the original, there was always this one:

Or:
 
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