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!
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.
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.
This is South Korean pop outfit Girls’ Generation. The ladies are not 8-bit. But what if they were?
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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.
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.
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.
Swedish hip hop artist Pato Pooh leaves no 8-bit game untouched in this amazing video for his latest track “Follow Me”.
It’s just not PAX without an improptu chiptune performance on the stairs outside the Seattle centre.