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What is it about retro chiptune music that makes it so charming? I never played Pokemon Crystal in my life until a week ago, and I'm 20 years old. Yet the music still makes me feel a sense of 'pseudo-nostalgia.' Why?

>> No.1441564

>>1441562
>'pseudo-nostalgia.'

perhaps you feel 'forced emotion'

>> No.1441565

Since retro devices don't have as many channels to play their music on, they have to use the few channels for a strong lead melody.

With more channels you can use more instruments to have something "vast" or "sweeping", but usually this is done at the expense of having a channel dedicated to a specific melody.

It's more "advanced", yes, but I prefer simple tunes with leads that stick in my mind.

>> No.1441771

"pseudo-nostalgia" is probably a symptom of profound ennui

>> No.1441859

>>1441565
This, it tends to be very hook-based, which is just naturally pretty catchy and fun. I'm also a big fan of unembellished square waves and rapid arpeggiation.

>> No.1442327

>>1441562

Perhaps because you are a retarded faggert?

>> No.1442358

>>1442327
haha nice you almost made me think I was on /v/

>> No.1442363

>>1442358

a 20 year old playing pokemon and feeling nostalgic?

this is the dumbest hipster retardest shit ever. it doesn't matter if it said on v or anywhere...the op is a fucking idiot.

>> No.1442395

>>1442363
Maybe he died and was reborn.

>> No.1442478

Game Boy games in general seem to have really good, "cheerful" music compared to other platforms. I don't think it's necessarily nostalgia; a lot of old non-game synth music has this characteristic as well.

>> No.1442947

I can say the same for Legacy of the Wizard's music. I feel like I've played it before, but really I never have. Such a god damned shame that this music is accompanied to a game that's near impossible without several guides; I wish this music was stuck to something like Jeckyll/Hyde. At least I could somehow ADVANCE and not run around in circles with zero progress being made.

>> No.1442954

>>1442363
It seems perfectly plausible to me that a 20-year-old could feel nostalgia for pokemon, if that's what they had. I'm 18 and I sometimes have nostalgia for the Gameboy Pocket and copy of Super Mario Land I had as a kid.

>> No.1442978

>>1441562
Because it reminds you of something else you heard at the time.

Happens to me semi-frequently, particularly when I'm listening to the same composers or hear songs from composers using the same tools.

>> No.1443019

I think part of it has to do with associating 8bit music with the past. Even though you've never heard it, it still reminds you of the past. Not to mention that with less sound channels, the songs had to focus on stronger melodies than they do now.

Also, how are you enjoying Crystal OP?

>> No.1443675

>>1442363
im sorry i forgot only you old geezers can experience feelings of nostalgia.

>> No.1443684

>>1441562
>pseudo-nostalgia

I'm afraid I don't understand...

>> No.1443728

>>1443684
Pseudo-nostalgia is when you like something which you have no personal history with, but still think that its value is somehow tied to the fact that it is old.

>> No.1443749

>>1441562
You're very, very gullible, that's why. The fact that a lot of people love it so much is just too impressive for you personally, so much so that you're nostalgic for something simply becuase they're nostalgic for it.

>> No.1443773

>>1443728
I get it fir cartoons in the 80s I never watched at the time. It's just the association with the past that's enough for me.

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>>1441562
>Yet the music still makes me feel a sense of 'pseudo-nostalgia.' Why?
It's called "emotion", a quality often found in good music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk4azyKVJJA

>> No.1449135

I personally like the instrument, the chip. Too bad video games strayed away from chip music and went to recordings of real instruments.

>> No.1449142

Because you were conditioned to appreciate it from a young age.

>> No.1449214

>>1443728

that's hipsterism and the faggerts in dis thrad are HIPSTARS!

>> No.1449561

Chiptunes sound better than real instruments because they are harmonically simple which means you can easily hear all the parts.

>> No.1449614

Why is it that I never played Knuckles Chaotix as a kid, yet its music feels so nostalgic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytLqmtr2_Vk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-axPO7pwgg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0-oiLkiZv0

>> No.1450443

>>1441562
IS BECAUSE YOUR'E FAGGOT OP

>> No.1450469

>>1443773
Yeah I agree. When I see a cartoon from the 90's, it reminds me of other 90's cartoons, and 90's music and 90's fashion and etc. etc. It's kind of a cumulative effect. Everything is a single thread in the tapestry of time.

>> No.1451069

These are the places where the people are,

welcome to Places & People

You are reading these words

In tune with

the music

The music which is

Playing in your head

Right now

>> No.1451076

Speaking of Crystal: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1420/

>>1442478
Also this.

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>>1451076
Awesome, thanks

will be playing this.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmD9WnLYR5I