Chiptunes are the fantastic, bleeping musical renditions of the soundchips of retro consoles past. Performers of the art overwhelmingly favour the various flavours of Game Boy, though there are those ...

It can be hard to write about the music of videogames while we are bathed in the projected glory of today's high-definition, 4K, 60-frames-per-second photorealistic graphics. And given that in the ...

If you are a certain age, MOS6581 either means nothing to you, or it is a track from Carbon Based Lifeforms. However, if you were a Commodore computer fan 35 years ago, it was a MOS Technologies SID ...

For fans of Studio Ghibli anime, then Studio Megaane has started doing some great 8bit chiptune adaptations of various title songs from these movies and the results are glorious. If you are not ...

A collector says he found a cartridge of Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker for the Sega Genesis in which the King of Pop’s “Thriller” — apparently left out of the game because of licensing issues or ...

More than just video game music, chiptune is a colourful collision of melody, harmony and lo-fi sounds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

If you were lucky enough to own one of the earlier game consoles, you may still remember those little bleeps that passed for music. Earlier technology was extremely limited in the way it could output ...