The classic SP0256-AL2 speech chip has featured a few times on these pages, and if you’ve not seen the actual part before, you almost certainly have heard the resulting audio output. The latest Python ...

As regular listeners of our HipTrax music podcast can attest, I am a big fan of chiptunes. The incredibly dedicated and staggeringly creative community that has sprung from the simple concept of ...

When you think of pop music, what do you think of? Do you think of top 40 radio and the mindless drones that populate the three chord airwaves? Do you think of traditional vocalists mixed with the ...

With its vintage sound, there’s no mistaking the unique 8-bit sound of video games from the 80s and 90s. It became so popular that eventually sparked its own genre of music known as “chiptune” for ...

Everyone’s heard the stories about those guys who play entire concerts on their Game Boys, or who recompose symphonies onto NES cartridges. 8Bitone is kinda like that, except on your iPhone, and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We speak with professional chiptunes musician, Nullsleep, on how he creates electronic music from synthesized sounds of old-school ...

For those not aware, Video game music (or VGM, as the acronymers call it) is the music associated with video games. I just... wanted to get that out of the way. Oh, and as it turns out, video game ...