Composer David Farrell started making 8-bit covers of Christmas songs several years ago for fun. Using tones roughly based on the sounds that an old Nintendo console makes, Farrell would generate the ...

Ary Warnaar, guitarist for the New York chiptunes band Anamanaguchi, famously described 8-bit music as “the punk of electronic music.” It was hard to dispute that claim as Datapop 3.0 kicked off the ...

Earlier this year, the Digital Culture Beat had the pleasure of attending the “8-bit Music Exhibit” for the Digital Studies Institute, planned by Toni Bushner and Norah Vulpes — a digital scholarship ...

The Very Best's "Let Go" isn't your standard-issue 8-bit-inspired music video. While it has all the fun and side-scrolling action of an 8-bit video, the clip for the indie duo's new track also has ...

As technology gets more advanced and pop music relies more heavily on Auto-Tune, there is, as always, a counter-culture movement that looks to previous decades for its answers. As the 8-bit ...

Japanese artist and developer Riki Iwasaki last month released 8-Bit Music Power, a chiptune album that as of now can only be played on Nintendo's original home console. Adam Bolton is a contributor ...

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. But ...

Game systems from the 8-bit and 16-bit era weren't exactly the graphical powerhouses that modern consoles, PCs and even phones have evolved into. But there are many other aspects including good ...