Pure arcade energy squeezed through NES hardware. This is the original Donkey Kong, the one that started everything, captured in the Game Sound Museum Famicom Edition. The 25M BGM is burned into gaming DNA at this point, and that Hammer BGM still makes you feel invincible even decades later.
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The Hurry Up into Miss sequence is brutal. Just this escalating tension and then silence. 100M BGM has its own flavor, faster and more desperate than the earlier stages. The stage clear jingles are tiny but satisfying, each one basically a two-second reward for surviving Donkey Kong's barrels.
If you want to hear where Nintendo's sound design philosophy literally began, this is the starting line.