I will make a very short 8bit intro theme song to your fictional podcasts

Ball-ywood Babylon:
Step behind the scenes, as we interview the actors, directors, cinematographers, and foley artists behind the greatest crotch-hits in cinema history.

This Amway Life theme:
https://soundcloud.com/chiptheme/8bit-nina-totenbag-pyramid

Ball-ywood Babylon theme:
https://soundcloud.com/chiptheme/8bit-ballywood

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That's amazing! O_O

Excellent. Thank you.

Is there a lot of interest here in making chip tunes? what kinds would you want to make?

Is there a rolling chiptune thread? There's the "songs that sound like earthbound" thread that sees a revive now and then, anyway I am very interested in chip tunes, I love that in many cases the music playing in an NES game was an afterthought, and in many other cases whomever was tasked with programming the music obviously put a lot of time and thought into it, and somehow quite a few of these computer programmers were also brilliant music composers, fascinating stuff!

Hearing the music from Mega Man 2, at the age of four, was almost certainly a formative experience for me

This Amway Life theme is spot on! Sadly, I know enough people involved in MLM schemes I could actually use it.

Garageband isn't a bad way to get into this -- just pick simpler sounding instruments and heavily quantize everything:
https://soundcloud.com/chiptheme/beat-brat

Megaman music is really dense and I think it was designed to allow some tracks to drop out during game play to make room for sound effects, so it's a particularly challenging set of constraints to work with.
I'd recommend starting with Ramones covers, then work your way up to Dr. Wily.

That's another thing, that the NES could only handle so many (four?) tracks at a time, and the sfx would take up one or two of them during gameplay, and they'd have to account for that! That a punch or an explosion would just cancel out an entire track of your song quite all of a sudden, just tremendously interesting constraints to work with.

It's the limitations I think that elevates the "chip tune" into some kind of bizarre instrument unto itself, an instrument that only a handful of people learned how to play and then just as soon completely forgot about as soon as videogames could incorporate any kind of recorded music, for better or worse...

Philip, are you a chiptuner in a professional capacity?

haha no! unless some podcaster has a dumptruck full of squarespace money to unload...

also, the sample-based way of tracking is a bit different from the NES paradigm, though there was some crossover whenever you had space constraints, like fitting the music + samples to under 1K.
but mostly it tended to be more maximalist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAcWkfww30I

Philip, how should I credit you for the theme music?

The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal

Right then

Philip, are you still doing these?

as long as there are fictional podcasts without themes...

What about one about holding conversations with engineers located in the PacNW?

OK!
https://soundcloud.com/chiptheme/8bit-rainy-day-singularity-conference

Hey, that one sounds familiar. Thanks!

I really want to do a podcast about video stores but I know I never will. if I heard a theme song, I could dream a little more vividly

I have an actual podcast with no theme tune, is it ineligible? https://centuriesofsound.wordpress.com/about/

Video Stores are Still a Thing?

Lyrics:
Video Stores
Are still a thing
You owe 10 grand in late feeeeees

https://soundcloud.com/chiptheme/8bit-video-stores-are-still-a-thing

A centennial song for a century of sound:
https://soundcloud.com/chiptheme/8bit-centennial-party

Though this old one might be more apropos, given that it spans both Daisy Bell (1892) and The Message (1982)?
https://soundcloud.com/chiptheme/8bit-geriatric-rap

that rules philip thank you

Brilliant, Philip, I love both of them, might make something with the second one...