Most Nintendo fans are familiar with Totaka’s Song: a short, 19-note melody that composer Kazumi Totaka famously hides in every game he’s ever worked on. K.K. Slider once crooned it to a villager in Animal Crossing, while Luigi’s Mansion and Pikmin 2 both play the song if you sit on a certain menu screen for too long. Now, the melody has surfaced in Mario Kart World, which makes for the 25th confirmed instance of the melody being hidden in a Nintendo game.
As reported by VGC, a Reddit user by the name of “charizardtelephone” found the song in the latest Mario Kart’s character-select screen. By moving the cursor to Yoshi and leaving it there, the cute little dino starts humming the familiar tune.
This is not the first time the song has appeared in a Mario Kart game, nor is it the first time Yoshi is the one singing it–in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, if you move your kart close to a Yoshi watching the race, you’ll hear Yoshi’s voice singing the tune there as well. Fittingly, Totaka himself has provided the voice of Yoshi since Yoshi’s Story in 1998.