chiptune

A piece of computer music in which the sounds are generated and mixed in realtime, common before the advent of mass storage for prerecorded sound.

Composers of chiptune and demoscene music practice the art of game music in vitro, with no particular commercial endeavor.

[…] it has been so popular with chiptune musicians […]

A style of music that samples or emulates the audio capabilities of older sound chips, but ignores certain hardware or software limitations inherent to them; especially (demoscene) a tracker module simulating the sound of early 8-bit comput