Golden Hammer (theme)

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"Golden Hammer"
"Golden Hammer" in Wrecking Crew
Thumbnail for "Golden Hammer" from Wrecking Crew for Nintendo Music
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Composed by:
Hirokazu Tanaka
First appearance Wrecking Crew (1985)
Latest appearance Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)

"Golden Hammer,"[1] also known as "Power-Up Music,"[2] is a musical theme composed by Hirokazu Tanaka for Wrecking Crew, where it plays whenever the player is using the Golden Hammer.

History[edit]

Wrecking Crew series[edit]

Wrecking Crew[edit]

Wrecking Crew marks the first appearance of "Golden Hammer." It is also included in the official soundtrack album Game Sound Museum: Wrecking Crew.

Wrecking Crew '98[edit]

In Wrecking Crew '98, a chiptune arrangement of "Golden Hammer" is featured in the game's port of Wrecking Crew, where it plays for the same purpose as in the original game.

Icon of an audio speaker. Golden Hammer - The arrangement heard in Wrecking Crew '98
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Super Smash Bros. series[edit]

In all games in the Super Smash Bros. series starting with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the original version of "Golden Hammer" plays whenever a player is using the Golden Hammer item.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl[edit]

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the original version of "Golden Hammer" can play in the Mario Bros. stage. It is titled "Power-Up Music" in the game's sound test.

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS[edit]

In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, the original version of "Golden Hammer" is included in the "Wrecking Crew Retro Medley," which can play in the Duck Hunt stage.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U[edit]

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In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, an arrangement of "Golden Hammer" is incorporated in the "Wrecking Crew Medley," which can play in the Wrecking Crew stage and was arranged by Manabu Namiki. The "Wrecking Crew Retro Medley" from Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS also returns and plays in the same stage.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

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In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, an arrangement of "Golden Hammer" is incorporated in the "Wrecking Crew Medley," which can play in any Super Smash Bros.-series and "Other"-series stage, and was arranged by Tetsuya Shibata. The "Wrecking Crew Medley" from Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, the "Wrecking Crew Retro Medley" from Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, and the original version of "Golden Hammer" as an individual track, all return and play in the same stages. The former and latter are titled "Wrecking Crew Medley (for 3DS / Wii U)" and "Power-Up Music - Wrecking Crew" respectively in the game's sound test.

List of Super Mario appearances[edit]

Games[edit]

Work System Year Type Title Credits
Wrecking Crew Nintendo Entertainment System 1985 Original "Bonus Phase"[1] Hirokazu Tanaka
Wrecking Crew '98 Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1998 Arrangement
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Wii 2008 Original "Power-Up Music"[3] Hirokazu Tanaka
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS 2014 Original "Wrecking Crew Retro Medley"[4] Hirokazu Tanaka
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Wii U 2014 Arrangement "Wrecking Crew Medley"[5] Manabu Namiki
Original "Wrecking Crew Retro Medley"[5] Hirokazu Tanaka
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Switch 2018 Arrangement "Wrecking Crew Medley"[6] Tetsuya Shibata
Past arrangement (Super Smash Bros. for Wii U) "Wrecking Crew Medley (for 3DS / Wii U)"[6] Manabu Namiki
Original "Wrecking Crew Retro Medley"[6] Hirokazu Tanaka
"Power-Up Music - Wrecking Crew"[6]

Albums[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Game Sound Museum: Wrecking Crew 2004 Original Hirokazu Tanaka

Other media[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Nintendo Music 2025[g 1] Original "Golden Hammer" Hirokazu Tanaka
  1. ^ Added on July 21, 2025

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ゴールデンハンマー[1]
Gōruden Hanmā 		Golden Hammer

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Nintendo Music
  2. ^ Super Smash Bros. series sound tests
  3. ^ Super Smash Bros. Brawl sound test
  4. ^ Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS sound test
  5. ^ a b Super Smash Bros. Wii U sound test
  6. ^ a b c d Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sound test
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Recurring themes and sound effects
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong "Game Start" • "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Round Start BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. "Game Start" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Title BGM"
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"
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Crocodile Cacophony (K. Rool's Theme)" • "Lockjaw's Saga (Lockjaw's Locker)" • "Run, Rambi! Run! (Parrot Chute Panic)" • "Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast)"
Donkey Kong 64 "DK Isle" • "DK Rap"
Donkey Kong Country Returns "Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series Mario Bros. "Game Start" • "Title BGM"
Wrecking Crew series Wrecking Crew "Bonus Phase" • "Golden Hammer" • "Phase BGM"
Super Mario series Super Mario Bros. "1-Up" • "Castle BGM" • "Coin" • "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" • "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)" • "Ending" • "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" • "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"
Super Mario Sunshine "Isle Delfino" ("Ricco Harbor") • "Secret Course"
New Super Mario Bros. "Course Clear" • "Fortress Theme" • "Main Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Mega Mario" • "Paah" • "Switch On!"
Super Mario Galaxy "Buoy Base Galaxy" • "Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "Luma" • "Overture" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
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" • "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 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" • "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" • "WarioWare, Inc." ("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 "Le Galop infernal d'Orphée aux Enfers" • "Totakeke's theme"
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VS. Wrecking Crew / Wrecking Crew
Characters Mario • Luigi
Items and objects Coin • Door • Druma • Dynamite • Floor • Golden Hammera • Ladder (Ladder wall) • Lettera • Pillara • Wall
Enemies Eggplant Mana • Fireball • Foreman Spikea • Gotchawrench
Phases Bonus Stage • VS. Wrecking Crew • Wrecking Crewa
Music "Bonus Phase" • "Golden Hammer" • "Phase BGM"
Miscellaneous Gallery • Game Sound Museum: Wrecking Crew • Nintendo Music (soundtrack) • Wrecking Crew (playing cards)
a Only in Wrecking Crew
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