Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Koji Kondo is rightfully acclaimed as the biggest name in video game music thanks to his legendary soundtracks for the early Mario and Zelda games. I don't think he gets enough credit for the music that he's written since taking a supervisor role on Nintendo's soundtracks. Kondo contributes at least one piece of music to each new Mario and Zelda instalment, and in this video I go through my top 5 favourite Koji Kondo One-Offs!

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0:00 - Koji Kondo is the man
1:44 - Number 5
4:23 - Number 4
8:04 - Number 3
10:34 - Number 2
14:33 - Number 1!!
16:22 - Outro

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