Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boston-based chiptune band Battlemode has come a long way since the group’s early days when some of their first crowds were less ...

Sometimes it’s worth doing something in an inefficient way. For example, it might be worth it in order to learn something new, or just to use a particular part. [Deater] did just that with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, I was in Boston to give a book reading, and after the event, I went to South Station to get a midnight bus back to New York. In the bus station, I heard an older woman, probably seventy, ...

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 ...

If you’ve never been to a chiptune show – yes, they exist – you’ve noticed the awesome visuals behind the performers that are usually displayed with a glitching NES. If it’s a really good show, that 8 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

Walking into Chris Mylrea's studio in Port Melbourne is like walking into a video game console museum. His desk is crowded with Sega Mega Drives, Commodore 64s and Nintendos of all flavours — and they ...

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 ...