In the simplest of terms, 8-bit music is named so after the 8-bit sound processors that early games consoles like the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 employed. ... Mario Kart World patch notes ...

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Chiptune — also called chip music and 8-bit music — found its footing as a subculture after it, ... two melodic bleepy-bloop notes, one bass note and a blast of raspy noise.

And here we are. It's at times striking to realize how closely these 8-bit artists with their Gameboys and Commodore 64s can come to Kraftwerk's sound when so inclined.

Some time ago, the music video was all the rage. ... The stop-motion video is similar to the 8-bit video in that the sixteenth notes of the song are roughly equivalent to 12 FPS animation.

The Mechanics of Old-School Music. Artists from D.R.A.M. to Jay-Z have sampled old-school video game jams in their hits. But how did those beeps and bloops come to constitute music in the first place?

He goes by the name of Bit Shifter (real name: Joshua Davis, 33), and he’s the co-organizer of the Blip Festival, in which 32 low-bit audio and visual artists converge on lower Manhattan for a ...

You’ve got to love that 8-bit sound. Blips and bloops and beeps magically merge together to create choppy, nostalgic melodies that remind us how far we’ve come since the first personal computers.

After decades of gaming, what makes 8-bit music in particular so memorable? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Here’s a ...