Retro

Imagine OK Computer Was Recreated As ChipTune Music… Now Listen To It!

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Okay, this is actually an incredible achievement. Chiptune artist Quintin Sung has rcreated the entirety of Radiohead’s classic album OK Computer — from start to finish — as 8-bit style, Chiptune music. And it sounds pretty schmancy!


February 16, 2012
In Real Life

Pixel-Perfect Chiptune Rendition Of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’

Soulful songstress Lana Del Rey made a splash last year with her single “Video Games”, a song that repeated the term ‘video games’ several times, causing many gamers to fall instantly in love despite the games in question being used as an example of how routine her once passionate relationship had become. The video was lovely, but it lacked a certain something: Actual video games.


January 17, 2012
Retro

8-Bit Weapon’s Latest Music Video Sports Iconic Game Characters As Guest Stars

The video above is supposed to be an homage to the 1980s graphic adventure games published by Sierra On-Line. But, if you watch the whole thing, you’ll spot some characters who weren’t part of that defunct publisher’s stable.


October 6, 2010
In Real Life

The Synthesisemii Invasion

Photographer Rodolfo Baretto captured this serene image of live Nintendo DS musical artist Luci Hidaka, otherwise known as Synthesizemii.


September 28, 2010

If Girls’ Generation Were 8-Bit

This is South Korean pop outfit Girls’ Generation. The ladies are not 8-bit. But what if they were?


July 23, 2010
In Real Life

Behold The Chipophone, The Amazing Chiptune Organ

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When a friend asked Swedish software engineer Linus Åkesson to take an old electric organ off his hands, Linus agreed, as long as he could do anything he wanted to it, and what he did is incredibly impressive.


May 5, 2010
In Real Life

Tron Goes 8-Bit Again

There’s old school Tron, Intellivision style, and then there’s 8-Bit Weapon’s Tron Tribute EP, featuring five chiptune mixes of Wendy Carlos’s iconic music from the first video game movie.


December 8, 2009
In Real Life

It’s A Chiptune Holiday!

Bloop and bleep in the holidays with 8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer’s It’s a Chiptune Holiday, an album filled with traditional holiday favourites, only better.


October 17, 2009
In Real Life

Retro Meets Rap In Pato Pooh’s “Follow Me”

Swedish hip hop artist Pato Pooh leaves no 8-bit game untouched in this amazing video for his latest track “Follow Me”.


September 6, 2009
In Real Life

Live From PAX 09: SeanBad And His Magical Gameboy

It’s just not PAX without an improptu chiptune performance on the stairs outside the Seattle centre.