Ghost Valley (theme)

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"Ghost Valley"
"Ghost Valley" in Super Mario Kart
The image for "Ghost Valley" from Super Mario Kart on Nintendo Music.
Image from Nintendo Music
Composed by:
Soyo Oka
First appearance Super Mario Kart (1992)
Latest appearance Mario Kart World (2025)

"Ghost Valley"[1] is a musical theme composed by Soyo Oka for Super Mario Kart, where it plays in Ghost Valley 1, Ghost Valley 2, and Ghost Valley 3. It is an arrangement of "Ghost House BGM" from Super Mario World, but replaces the arrangement of "Ground BGM" with an original melody.

History[edit]

Mario Kart series[edit]

Super Mario Kart[edit]

Super Mario Kart marks the first appearance of "Ghost Valley".

Mario Kart 64[edit]

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In Mario Kart 64, the theme that plays in Banshee Boardwalk, titled "Banshee Boardwalk" on the Nintendo Music app, incorporates an arrangement of "Ghost Valley" on some strings.

Mario Kart: Super Circuit[edit]

In Mario Kart: Super Circuit, the theme that plays in Boo Lake and Broken Pier incorporates an arrangement of "Ghost Valley" during the intro.

All Ghost Valley courses return as Extra Tracks, which feature a chiptune arrangement of "Ghost Valley".

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Icon of an audio speaker. SNES Ghost Valley
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Mario Kart DS[edit]

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In Mario Kart DS, an arrangement of "Banshee Boardwalk" arranged by Shinobu Tanaka plays in N64 Banshee Boardwalk.

Mario Kart Wii[edit]

In Mario Kart Wii, an enhanced version of "Ghost Valley" plays in SNES Ghost Valley 2.

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Mario Kart Tour[edit]

In Mario Kart Tour, Mario Kart Wii's arrangement of "Ghost Valley" plays in SNES Ghost Valley 1, SNES Ghost Valley 2 and RMX Ghost Valley 1.

An arrangement of Boo Lake's and Broken Pier's theme plays in GBA Boo Lake.

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe[edit]

In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, as part of Wave 3 of the Booster Course Pass, an arrangement of Mario Kart Tour's version of Boo Lake's and Broken Pier's theme, plays in GBA Boo Lake, titled "GBA Boo Lake" on the Nintendo Music app. A looping drum set beat is layed on top of the instrumentation whenever the player is driving at top speed while in first place.

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Mario Kart World[edit]

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In Mario Kart World, an arrangement of "Ghost Valley" can play during the route from Boo Cinema to Dry Bones Burnout in Grand Prix, and any route in VS Race.

"Ghost Valley" plays during the tribute missions for the Ghost Valley courses outside of Boo Cinema.

Other appearances[edit]

Mario Kart 64 Race Tracks[edit]

The Mario Kart 64 Race Tracks album features "Banshee Boardwalk" as its eleventh track.

Mario Kart 64 Original Soundtrack[edit]

The Mario Kart 64 Original Soundtrack features "Banshee Boardwalk" as its eleventh track, titled "Obake".

Gallery[edit]

List of Super Mario appearances[edit]

Games[edit]

Work System Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario Kart Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1992 Original "Ghost Valley"[1] Soyo Oka
Mario Kart 64 Nintendo 64 1996 Arrangement "Banshee Boardwalk"[1] Kenta Nagata
Mario Kart: Super Circuit Game Boy Advance 2001 Arrangement  
 
Mario Kart DS Nintendo DS 2005 Arrangement Shinobu Nagata
Mario Kart Wii Wii 2008 Arrangement
Mario Kart Tour iOS, Android 2019[g 1] Past arrangement (Mario Kart Wii)
2022[g 2] Arrangement
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Nintendo Switch 2022[g 3] Arrangement "GBA Boo Lake"[1]
 
Mario Kart World Nintendo Switch 2 2025 Arrangement
Original Soyo Oka
  1. ^ Added in the 2019 Halloween Tour on October 22, 2019
  2. ^ Added in the 2022 Halloween Tour on October 18, 2022
  3. ^ Added in Wave 3 of the Booster Course Pass on December 7, 2022

Albums[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Mario Kart 64 Race Tracks 1997 Past arrangement (Mario Kart 64) "Banshee Boardwalk" Kenta Nagata
Mario Kart 64 Original Soundtrack "Obake"

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese おばけぬま[1]
Obake-numa 		Ghost Swamp

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Nintendo Music
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Recurring themes and sound effects
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong "Game Start" • "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Round Start BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. "Game Start" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Title BGM"
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Donkey Kong Country "Aquatic Ambiance" • "Bonus Room Blitz" • "Cave Dweller Concert" • "Cranky's Theme" • "The Credits Concerto" • "DK Island Swing" • "Fear Factory" • "Forest Frenzy" • "Funky's Fugue" • "Gang-Plank Galleon" • "Ice Cave Chant" • "Life in the Mines" • "Lost a Balloon" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Simian Segue" • "Treetop Rock" • "Voices of the Temple" • "Well Done"
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Donkey Kong 64 "DK Rap"
Donkey Kong Country Returns "Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series Mario Bros. "Coin" • "Game Start"
Mario Bros. (NES) "Title BGM"
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Super Mario series Super Mario Bros. "1-Up" • "Castle BGM" • "Course Clear" ("Power Up") • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Game Over" · "Player Down") • "Invincibility BGM" • "Pause" • "Pipe Travel / Power-Down" • "Timer Warning" • "Underground BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "World Clear"
VS. Super Mario Bros. "Gyōmu-yō Mario Namae-ire"
Super Mario Bros. 2 "Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Underground BGM"
Super Mario Bros. 3 "Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" • "Bros. Battle" • "Clear Fanfare" • "Ending" • "Fortress BGM" • "Fortress Boss" • "Game Over" • "Ground BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "Music Box" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Player Down" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "Warp Zone" • "World 1 Map (Grass Land)" • "World 2 Map (Desert Land)" • "World 3 Map (Water Land)" • "World 4 Map (Giant Land)" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - On the Ground" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - In the Sky" • "World 6 Map (Ice Land)" • "World 7 Map (Pipe Land)" • "World 8 Map (Dark Land)"
Super Mario Land "Chai Kingdom BGM" • "Main Theme" • "Underground Theme"
Super Mario World "Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Dragon Coin" • "Ending" • "Forest of Illusion (Map Screen)" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · "Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Course Clear" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Star World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi ni noru toki" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
Super Mario 64 "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "Lethal Lava Land" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Course Clear" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll" • "Star Catch Fanfare" • "Toad's Message"
Super Mario Sunshine "Isle Delfino" ("Ricco Harbor") • "Secret Course"
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Bonus Area" • "Castle Theme" • "Coast Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Forest Theme" • "Ghost House Theme" • "Lava Cave / Underground Ruins Theme" • "Lava Theme" • "Title Theme" ("Game Over") • "Toad House Minigame" • "Underwater Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy 2 "Bowser's Galaxy Generator" • "Puzzle Plank Galaxy" • "Slimy Spring Galaxy" • "Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer Theme" • "Teleporter Melody"
Super Mario 3D Land "Castle Theme" • "Main Theme" • "Snow Course" • "Underwater Theme"
New Super Mario Bros. U "Ground Theme"
Super Mario 3D World "A Boss Approaches" • "Chainlink Charge" • "Piranha Creeper Creek" • "Super Bell Hill"
Super Mario Maker "Title Theme"
Super Mario Odyssey "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!"
Dr. Mario series Dr. Mario "Chill" • "Fever" • "Game Over" • "Selection Screen" • "Title Screen"
Mario Kart series Super Mario Kart "Awards Ceremony (1st – 3rd Place)" • "Donut Plains" • "Mario Circuit" • "Rainbow Road" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen"
Mario Kart 64 "Battle Arenas" • "Choco Mountain" • "D.K.'s Jungle Parkway" • "Frappe Snowland" • "Kalimari Desert" • "Koopa Troopa Beach" • "Luigi Raceway" • "Mario Kart 64 Title Screen" • "Moo Moo Farm" • "Rainbow Road" • "Results (1st − 4th Place)" • "Staff Credits" • "Starting Grid (Time Trials / Battle)" • "Toad's Turnpike"
Mario Kart: Super Circuit "Koopa Castle Course" • "GBA Mario Circuit"
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! "GCN Baby Park" • "Mario Circuit" • "Peach Beach"
Mario Kart DS "DS Cheep Cheep Beach" • "DS Peach Gardens" • "Waluigi Pinball"
Mario Kart Wii "Coconut Mall" • "Luigi Circuit/Mario Circuit" • "Wii Maple Treeway" • "Moo Moo Meadows" • "Mushroom Gorge" • "Wario's Gold Mine"
Mario Kart 7 "Neo Bowser City" • "Piranha Plant Slide" • "Rainbow Road" • "Toad Circuit"
Mario Kart 8 "Cloudtop Cruise"
Yoshi franchise Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island "Athletic BGM" • "Bowser" • "Flower Field BGM" • "Goal!" • "Opening Melody" • "Powerful Mario" • "Stage Start" • "Yoshi's Island"
Yoshi's Story "Yoshi's Song" ("Yoshis on the Beach") • "Yoshi's Story!" • "Yoshi's Tale"
Luigi's Mansion series Luigi's Mansion "Title Theme (Humming)"
Wario franchise WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! "Drifting Away" • "Pyoro" • "Title Theme" ("Dr. Crygor")
WarioWare: Twisted! "Mona Pizza"
WarioWare: Touched! "Ashley's Theme"
Mario vs. Donkey Kong series Mario vs. Donkey Kong "Mini Mario Stage"
Super Smash Bros. series Super Smash Bros. Melee "Rainbow Cruise"
Other The Legend of Zelda "Important Item Acquired" • "Magic Whistle Melody" • "Overworld Theme"
Mario Paint "Drawing Board 1" • "Gnat Attack: Level 1" • "Save & Load"
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars "Beware of Forest Mushrooms" • "Hello, Happy Kingdom"
Miscellaneous "Galop infernal" • "Mute City" • "Totakeke's theme"
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Super Mario Kart
Playable characters Bowser • Donkey Kong Jr. • Koopa Troopa • Luigi • Mario • Princess • Toad • Yoshi
Courses Mushroom Cup Mario Circuit 1 • Donut Plains 1 • Ghost Valley 1 • Bowser Castle 1 • Mario Circuit 2
Flower Cup Choco Island 1 • Ghost Valley 2 • Donut Plains 2 • Bowser Castle 2 • Mario Circuit 3
Star Cup Koopa Beach 1 • Choco Island 2 • Vanilla Lake 1 • Bowser Castle 3 • Mario Circuit 4
Special Cup Donut Plains 3 • Koopa Beach 2 • Ghost Valley 3 • Vanilla Lake 2 • Rainbow Road
Battle courses Battle Course 1 • Battle Course 2 • Battle Course 3 • Battle Course 4
Items and objects Question Block items Banana Peel • Feather • Ghost • Green Shell • Lightning • Mushroom • Red Shell • Star
CPU-only items Egg • Fireball • Poison Mushroom
Miscellaneous items and objects Coin • Jump • Kart • Trophy • Zipper
Techniques Drift • Mini-Turbo • Hop • Rocket Start
Species, enemies, and obstacles Big Cheep Cheep • Bullet Bill • Gopher • Flopping Cheep Cheep • Ice • Lakitu • Oil slick • Snow block • Super Thwomp • Thwomp • Warp Pipe
Music "Awards Ceremony (1st – 3rd Place)" • "Battle Mode" • "Donut Plains" • "Finish! (5th – 8th Place)" • "Koopa Beach" • "Mario Circuit" • "Race Results (Donkey Kong Jr.)" • "Rainbow Road" • "Staff Credits" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen" • "Vanilla Lake"
Miscellaneous Battle Mode • Finish line • Gallery • Howard Lincoln Answers Your Questions • Nintendo Music (soundtrack) • Pre-release and unused content • Staff • Super Mario Embroidery World • Super Mario Kart (Barcode Battler II) • Super Mario Kart (sliding puzzle) • Mario Kart Dice • Super Mario Kart: Mario Kart Grand Prix • Wario Cheat of the Day
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