If you know your Mario music, then this old pop song might sound familiar. Did Nintendo steal it? And why do they sound so similar? PATREON - https://patreon.com/ThomasGameDocs TWITTER - https://twitter.com/thomasgdocs Also here is Max's Twitter!! - https://twitter.com/ShampooCell SOURCES - https://ameblo.jp/nasunikki/entry-10002473547.html Interview about meaning of Japanese lyrics to Green Green - http://shmuplations.com/kojikondo/ The two Koji Kondo quotes come from this interview - https://symphogear.blogspot.com/2016/02/symphogear-bd-6-released-along-with.html Writeup of Green Green’s history (though I wish I had found this before I’d written most of the script myself!) - https://archive.org/details/japan_miracle_in_asia_1963 Archive Footage of 1960s Japan CREDITS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rUdUj8ch58 Japanese kids singing Green Green - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5O_Y-sh6sM Mrs. Green Apple cover of Green Green (bad audio I'm afraid) MUSIC - Super Mario World Theme composed by Koji Kondo, via Nintendo - Stock music via Epidemic Sound