The United States Library of Congress inducted its first ever piece of game music into the National Recording Registry yesterday, forever marking it as one of a number of "audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage".
Now, I know what you're thinking: "Obviously, they selected Dragon's Dogma's Into Free Dangan for preservation in this prestigious collection of cultural paragons." Well, that would make sense. Into Free Dangan—an English adaptation of the B'z song Samayoeru Aoi Dangan made for Dragon's Dogma's 2012 release—is a technical and artistic masterwork. But the Library of Congress went and chose Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. theme instead.
