Since the end of the last century, every now and then a new 8bit music video appears. With a great variety of quality, as always there’re some gems included. With the mainstream 8bit retro hype, peaking during the late nineties, this genre was quite hot for a while. Even though the mainstream has abandoned this domain, quite a few people are still working with it.

The musical efforts of many, from enthusiastic amateurs to professionals, throughout the history of computers have been gathered and archived by dedicated teams. Some of these are ongoing projects, as even today there’s new music being made for even the rarest platforms. Here’s a list of resources.

Telemachus Stavropoulos aka Helm is a strong character in the world of pixel art. Where in his daily life he spends his time working as a comic artist with great passion and talent, he deals with pixel graphics in his spare time accordingly. With the same academic and pioneering approach.

A retrospect of Tommi Musturi aka Electric in the form of a small book. The title puts his past in perspective, where the slogan might have been ‘Death to all’ in the early 90ties, today it’s ‘Death to most’, a softer parodist reflection of his teenager years.

“Chiptune refers to a collection of related music production and performance practices sharing a history with video game soundtracks. The evolution of early chiptune music tells an alternate narrative about the hardware, software, and social practices of personal computing in the 1980s and 1990s.”