The flagship racing title for Nintendo's Switch 2, and Mario Kart World arrives in 2025 with a soundtrack that's part greatest-hits celebration, part bold new statement. The Main Theme sets the tone for what Nintendo is calling their most ambitious Mario Kart yet, and then the tracklist dives deep into decades of Mario music history with racing-ready arrangements of classic tunes.
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The Super Mario Bros. arrangements alone are staggering. You get the iconic Ground BGM reimagined for high-speed competition, an Underground BGM that somehow also exists in a Latin Guitar Version (which is exactly the kind of wild creative choice that makes Nintendo soundtracks special), and pulls from SMB2, SMB3, and beyond.
The "Map Medley" from Super Mario Bros. 3 and the Athletic BGM arrangements show just how much source material the composers had to work with. This is Nintendo looking back at over 40 years of Mario music and asking "what if you could drift through all of it at 200cc?"
The sheer density of classic BGM arrangements turned into racing tracks makes this feel like a love letter to the entire franchise. For anyone who grew up with these melodies, hearing them reborn as kart racing anthems is going to hit different.