I’ve been following Retro Core for 15 years from its original video game reviews to its recent videos about ports of games and the Chinese knock offs that play them. He’s tired of people dissing the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive’s sound chip, so he brought several examples of clean instruments and heavy bass. There’s more Mega […]

Here in Ohio, we finally got our first decent snow of the winter. I really like snow as long as I’m not driving in it. For the moment, things are calm and pretty and not even that cold. These are dire times. The USA became a dictatorship, China is sick, Hong Kong’s autonomy is still […]

Thank You Scientist is a seven-piece band playing jazz fusion progressive metal, my favorite! Their new album is streaming in lots of places including YouTube. The band’s drummer, Joe Fadem, thought Swarm would sound cool as a chiptune, so he made it happen. The title says “8-Bit”, but the SNES samples and K.K. Slider vocals […]

Corruption as Art uses a real-time corruptor mod for BizHawk to flip random bits in memory while a game is running. Usually this just crashes the game, but sometimes things break in interesting ways. When applied to Streets of Rage 2, the music keeps playing but goes out of sync and creates strange remixes. Be […]

Mystery Ben makes animated music videos for Mystery Skulls songs. Ghost could have been a simple Scooby Doo parody, but every second seems to have important details for TV Tropes to analyze. This attracted a far bigger fandom than the official live action music video, prompting Mystery Ben to continue the series… With the success […]