Got the 8bit bug

Last weekend my wife and oldest kid were off at a birthday party for one of her friends. The youngest and I were left at home to clean. To try and get him motivated to pick things up I turned on some music. Sadly he is not as big a fan of the 60-90's as his older sister is. Flipped through a few genres until I found something that got him exicted. 8bit Chip Tunes!!!

He was excited to pretend he was in a retro game (he is a big Pokemon, Mario, and SNES fan). Found a chip tune radio station on YT and whenever he heard a song he liked he ran over to read the name and we added it to a playlist.

I'm pretty much a retro gamer. Never have the hardware to run new games, the rest of the family gets new consoles while I play with my retro emulator hand helds. I've always kind of liked the music from those systems and seeing as I have no New Years Resolution for 2025 why not pick up making Chip Tunes.

I've got LSDJ installed on my handheld and the plan is to create some sort of song a minimum of once a week. I'll have to figure out how to get the music off the device and I'll post updates to keep myself motivated. Who else is excited to hear some really bad music I created?!?!

$ published: 2025-05-23 15:25 $

$ tags: #life, #music, #chiptunes $

-- CC-BY-4.0 jecxjo 2025-05-23

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