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Chiptune

Chiptune, also called 8-bit music (although not all chiptune is 8-bit), is a style of electronic music and musical subculture made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles. The term is commonly used to refer to tracker format music using extremely basic and…

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Cultural origins
Late 1970s to early 1980s, Japan
Derivative forms
Wonky · hyperpop · kawaii future bass · synthwave
Other names
Chip music · 8-bit music · chiptunes · pico-pico
Stylistic origins
Electronic · video game music · computer music · soundtrack · synthpop (Yellow Magic Orchestra)

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Mainstream popularity

Tracker chiptunes

Contemporary chiptune music

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Chiptune

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Chiptune

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related to Contemporary chiptune music · 43
Chiptune → Another, Around, Australian, AY, Bit Weapon, Boing Boing Video's SPAMasterpiece, Bombs Away, Commodore, Dot, Episode, Fanfare, Fast Tracker, For MS-DOS, G4's Attack, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Gameboy Rocker, Good Game, Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson, In
related to Early 1980s–1994: FM synthesis · 27
Chiptune → Arcade, By, FM, FM-7, Gradius, Hang-On, In, Japanese, Konami's Miki Higashino, MIDI, MML, Music Macro Language, NEC PC-88, NEC PC-8801, Out Run, PC-8801, PC-98, PC-9801, Sega's Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Space Harrier
related to Mainstream popularity · 26
Chiptune → After, Arcade, Atari-era, Buckner, Chicago, Computer Game, Garcia's, Grass, Haruomi Hosono's Video Game, I-F's, Jesse Saunders, Music, On, Pac-Man Fever, Player One's, Sheffield's, Since, Some, Space Invaders, Space Invaders Are Smoking
related to Mid-1970s–1980s: Video game origins · 24
Chiptune → An, Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Gun Fight, In, It, Martin Galway, Namco, Rabbit Software, Rally-X, Rydeen, Sega's, Some, Space Invaders, Stratovox, Stryker's Run, Sunsoft's, Super Locomotive, That, The, Tomohiro Nishikado's
related to MAGFest's Chipspace · 14
Chiptune → Among, Brandon, Chip Rave, Chipspace, Chiptunes, Chipzel, Concert Hall, Hood, In, MAGFest's, Originally, Super MAGFest, United States, WIN
related to Suggested viewing · 14
Chiptune → Art, Bit, Blip FestivalThe Chiptune Story, Chris Huelsbeck, Documentary, Justin Strawhand, Marcin Ramocki, New York, Paul Owens, Planet, Rob Hubbard, Steven Fletcher, The, Videogames
related to Tracker chiptunes · 14
Chiptune → Amiga, Amiga's, As, Baroque, Commodore, Duz, Earliest, Karsten Obarski's Ultimate Soundtracker, SID, TDK, The Commodore Amiga, This, Tracker, Turtle
related to Technology · 13
Chiptune → Available, Commodore, Common, Due, Game Boy, MOS Technology SID, PRNG, The, The Commodore, The Game Boy, The SID, Two, Unlike
Stylistic origins · 7
Chiptune → computer music, Electronic, heavy metal (neoclassical metal), jazz fusion, soundtrack, synthpop (Yellow Magic Orchestra), video game music
related to External links · 7
Chiptune → Bleep Bloop, Carts, Documentary Series About Japanese, Red Bull Music Academy, The Charms, The New Yorker's Culture, Video Game Music

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music game video also sounds chip computer early tracker sound arcade used electronic chiptunes first games artists 1980s released fm

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ChiptuneCultural originsLate 1970s to early 1980s, Japan1.00infobox
ChiptuneDerivative formsWonky1.00infobox
ChiptuneDerivative formshyperpop1.00infobox
ChiptuneDerivative formskawaii future bass1.00infobox
ChiptuneDerivative formssynthwave1.00infobox
ChiptuneOther namesChip music1.00infobox
ChiptuneOther names8-bit music1.00infobox
ChiptuneOther nameschiptunes1.00infobox
ChiptuneOther namespico-pico1.00infobox
ChiptuneStylistic originsElectronic1.00infobox
ChiptuneStylistic originsvideo game music1.00infobox
ChiptuneStylistic originscomputer music1.00infobox
ChiptuneStylistic originssoundtrack1.00infobox
ChiptuneStylistic originssynthpop (Yellow Magic Orchestra)1.00infobox
ChiptuneStylistic originsheavy metal (neoclassical metal)1.00infobox
ChiptuneStylistic originsjazz fusion1.00infobox

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