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Later, during dungeon synth’s revival in the 2010's, tabletop and videogames would be more incorporated and celebrated. Much of the early acts in dungeon synth’s history were dedicated to the general realm of fantasy. This is not just an artist and listener experiencing a realm of fantasy but one where they are the one making choices and experiencing the world. This relationship between dungeon synth and tabletop games shares a vision of fantasy with active agency. Dungeon Chip is the waystation between the nostalgic tribute of chiptune and the fantastical escapism of dungeon synth.ĭungeon synth's history is entwined with the concept of games. Dungeon chip participants are small and its history only seems to cover a few sporadic years. Chiptune has a long, winding history and, much like Dungeon Rap, Dungeon Chip is the extension of a niche sound within the world of an even more niche style.
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The time and energy I put into this scene of music is probably why I made an effort to earmark certain dungeon synth bands that carried the same sense of love and chaos when it came to expressing themselves through games from the past.ĭungeon Chip or Dungeon Chiptune is dungeon synth that utilizes chiptune–a style of synthesized electronic music made by using the programmable sound generator chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers, and video game consoles. In the small crowds you would hear people call out requests and then ecstatic cheering when a familiar tune would be belted out of very loud and oftentimes broken amps. It had to be loud, it had to be rough, and it most of all had to be exciting. This was not only a celebration of interests but it was a crude ritual that would not be the same as just playing official soundtracks. In small side rooms of upscale convention halls, guitarists would play video game riffs over top of drum machines while projections of Nintendo games would scroll on screens behind them. It was a scene of people that were not only heavily involved in the tribute of video games but also expressing it in the noisiest and sometimes the most DIY way possible. Before the advent of reliable streaming services like Bandcamp, much of this music existed on file sharing networks and through purchased CDs that were acquired through merch tables at conventions. The artists in this nebula would play music in medium size video game conventions as well as warehouse concerts and bar shows. This genre of tribute music has been tagged as chiptune for electronic and referred to as Nintendocore for the rock variety (though that name has never been used even as a joke). Many of these acts played video game conventions, where there was a focus on nostalgic entertainment for the attendees. In another life, I spent a considerable amount of time with video game music–specifically rock and electronic tribute bands who would play renditions or remixes of video game songs.
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