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Chiptune Radio is a remix organization (producer? DJ? group? cottage industry?) that for at least a few years now has been releasing compilations of known music reconfigured on vintage-sounding 8-bit ...

Haven't yet been introduced to the wonders that is the nascent chiptune scene? That's where Paul Owens' Reformat the Planet comes in, a documentary covering the growing 8-bit powered music style. The ...

In the middle of the noughties, there was an explosion in the online popularity of chiptune, the wonderfully evocative genre of electronic music based on the plinky, synthetic soundtracks of early ...

The bleeps and bloops from vintage video games like Donkey Kong, Super Mario Land and Mega Man are being celebrated this weekend at a new festival. Boston Bitdown is a three-day bash with dozens of ...

Remember in high school when mom pawned all your old video games ‘cuz you never played them anymore? Then, as soon as you got to college and first felt homesick, you ended up buying a used SNES and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boston-based chiptune band Battlemode has come a long way since the group’s early days when some of their first crowds were less ...

Chiptune music is one the many phenomena that '80s era gaming nostalgia spawned -- but to get into it you need to mod a working 30-year-old NES into an instrument. Now, a company called Assorted Wires ...

Long after their ‘80s heyday, the kind of chirpy sounds that helped make Mario and his contemporaries famous have been adopted by electronic musicians across the board, and the influence of ‘chip’ ...

Nintendo Game Boys and Commodore 64s are the types of aged devices one might find in a childhood closet or stuffy attic. But imaginative musicians in a gamer-centric subculture have been using this ...