10 Video Game Pause Screen Secrets You Totally Missed

10. The Pause Menu Is A Musical Instrument - Super Mario Odyssey

Super Mario Odyssey's pause menu might seem like a most typical of Nintendo pause screens - stylish but elegantly simple - that is unless you listen closely to the various chime sound effects which play when you cycle through the game's menu options.

Players discovered shortly after release that if you select some of the options in a certain order, you can actually play a familiar Mario theme.

Basically, if you enter the pause menu, select Options, then Choose Mode, and then go back, the resulting notes will play the memorable Comet Observatory theme from Super Mario Galaxy.

Even if you somehow stumbled upon it by sheer accident, it's missed incredibly easily unless you're a hardcore Mario fan. For the ride-or-die fans, though, this is one hell of a mind-melting, fan-serving detail.