In 2023 the Super Mario Bros. theme became the first video game music inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry, which preserves recordings of cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance. Composed by Koji Kondo, the “Ground Theme” was created within the technical limits of the NES’s five-channel sound chip. Its inventive use of those constraints helped inspire chiptune.
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