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"Year in Review" - 2023

Posted by Merit Celaire on Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 01:32 PM

Despite the major turbulent issues that have been trying to slow down yours truly (including but not limited to resituating myself on the backend after having to upgrade our site hosting account to a "paying client" status, as well as my account access issues with Discord), the show must go on. More specficially, I still promised myself I'd at least take care of wriring this latest "Year in Review" article looking back at the music operation's activity from the previous 2023 year. As always, we've got two categories to share including what featured Super Mario (main, spinoff, and branched) installments have been involved, as well as the featured Super Nintendo music instrument set involvement. So ready or not, here we go; let's get down to it.

But before we get to those categories, these are the "totals" to report for the previous 2023 year, which state that:

* 33 songs were covered during the course of the previous year, which involved...
* 8 featured Mario series' installments (main/spinoff/branched), as well as...
* 14 featured Super Nintendo music instrument sets that were called on to do the song cover process itself

As compared to the "Year in Review" for 2022, we had a sustantial jump from 18 songs covered to 33 from the 2023 year, which results in a 15 song difference (more specifically, this was much better for 2023; and I think I know why, which will be elaborated on later). But I would be lying if I told you that competition between both the featured Super Mario videogame installments as well as the featured Super Nintendo music instrument sets wasn't fierce and chaotic; nothing could be further from the truth.

Here's that evidence in question - first, let's start with listing the featured Mario game installments that were involved in our song covers for last year. Along with that, it's also time to announce which one was in the "winner's circle" for 2023 - and it should come as no surprise that Super Mario Bros. Wonder trounced all other installments that were involved ever since yours truly started doing song covers focused on the score of said game in early November of last year. Those composers at Nintendo have done it again writing insanely addictive tunes related to said game, and I have a strong feeling this was one of the major points as to why Super Mario Bros. Wonder stood out to all of us dedicated Mario series enthusiasts (even to the point that it nailed an award for "Best Family Game" during "The Game Awards" happenings late last year as well). The other involved Mario games for the previous year looked like they couldn't stand a chance when Super Mario Bros. Wonder came on the scene, which can be seen on the following chart below: