Since you can never quite pin down when Nintendo is going to do anything (especially announce a successor to its most popular console ever), it should be no surprise that the company uploaded 32 tracks from Wave Race 64 to its Nintendo Music service last night. With seemingly no rhyme or reason for what gets added to the service, nostalgic fans can now relive some memories of one of the N64’s early graphical highlights by diving into the entire OST on the go. No, I did not mean that to be a pun, but let’s go with it.
32 tracks from Wave Race 64 have been added to Nintendo Music! pic.twitter.com/cwbA2G2IRW
— Nintendo Wire (@NinWire) December 10, 2024
This latest addition to Nintendo Music comes packed with 32 tracks and includes such highlights as “Sunny Beach (1996 Ver.),” “Sunny Beach (1997 Ver.),” and “4th-Place Finish.” I’m more of a “No Placement” man, myself, but let’s not talk about my own inadequacies. Interestingly, this track listing is basically 1:1 with the Japanese CD released nearly 30 years ago, minus a voice track of the game’s staff. I imagine that doesn’t really constitute music in the strictest sense, so Nintendo left it out.
Source: KHI
Kazumi Totaka
Wave Race 64’s soundtrack was composed by Kazumi Totaka, who most Nintendo fans are likely familiar with. He’s most associated with Animal Crossing nowadays but worked on Mario Paint, Link’s Awakening, Luigi’s Mansion, Pikmin 2, and the Wii channel music. He is most famous for a little ditty called “Totaka’s Song,” which features in every single game he has worked on and is typically hidden in tracks for various games. The beloved character K.K. Slider is named after him, with his Japanese name being Totakeke. That is similar to how one would pronounce his name if abbreviated to Totaka K.
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Written by Peter Glagowski
Peter has been a freelance gaming and film critic for over seven years. His passion for Nintendo is only matched by the size of his collection.
