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Remember in high school when mom pawned all your old video games ‘cuz you never played them anymore? Then, as soon as you got to college and first felt homesick, you ended up buying a used SNES and ...

A new track, at last! And the next installment in the skyworld series. Mainspring, point of origin. This is a crazy hybrid ...

Boston-based chiptune band Battlemode has come a long way since the group’s early days when some of their first crowds were less than friendly. Founding member David Jubinsky, or Biff as he’s known in ...

The bleeps and bloops from vintage video games like Donkey Kong, Super Mario Land and Mega Man are being celebrated this weekend at a new festival. Boston Bitdown is a three-day bash with dozens of ...

Chip music band Starscream employs aged video game and computer equipment to create their unique sound Nintendo Game Boys and Commodore 64s are the types of aged devices one might find in a childhood ...

Diode Milliampere holds an ancient Toshiba laptop up to the camera of a more modern laptop, so that the window of our Skype conversation fills with a flickering, constantly refreshing grid of numbers ...

Long after their ‘80s heyday, the kind of chirpy sounds that helped make Mario and his contemporaries famous have been adopted by electronic musicians across the board, and the influence of ‘chip’ ...

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 ...

Boston-based chiptune band Battlemode has come a long way since the group’s early days when some of their first crowds were less than friendly. Founding member David Jubinsky, or Biff as he’s known in ...

Nintendo Game Boys and Commodore 64s are the types of aged devices one might find in a childhood closet or stuffy attic. But imaginative musicians in a gamer-centric subculture have been using this ...