Pure 8-bit charm straight from the Famicom's sound chip. This 1986 compilation pulls music from the earliest Nintendo titles on NES and Famicom Disk System, and hearing them all together is wild. "SUPER MARIO BROS." needs no introduction, those bleeps defined a whole era.
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"BALLOON TRIP (ARRANGE VERSION)" takes the floaty Balloon Fight tune and rearranges it into something surprisingly pretty. "ZERUDA NO DENSETSU" is just the original Legend of Zelda theme in its Japanese form, and it still goes hard.
The collection also packs in Donkey Kong, Excitebike, and Wrecking Crew. All the foundations. If you want to hear where console game music literally started, this is the document.