Those first four NES beeps of the Ground Theme and your brain fills in twenty-five years of muscle memory. The Super Mario History CD bundles Koji Kondo's greatest hits from 1985 to 2010, tracing the jump from 8-bit square waves to full orchestral recordings.
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Hearing "Slider" from Mario 64 right after "Ground Theme" from Super Mario World makes the hardware leap feel physical. "Delfino Plaza" still sounds like vacation. The disc also packs in sound effects, so you get coins, jumps, power-ups, and pipes all in sequence.
It's basically a timeline of Nintendo's audio engineering. If you want to hear how Mario's sound grew up alongside the consoles, this is a neat little capsule of that evolution.