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A type of music comprised of 8-bit music and sounds and sometimes modern day percussion, resembling old video games, and is always compiled in an extremely upbeat melody that makes you want to shoot rainbows out of your mouth.
John: Hey bro, I heard this one type of music on a music thread last night, but I don't know what it's called. You know it?

Brian: What did it sound like?

John: It sounded like it was from a really old video game. It sounded kind of 8-bit-ish and it was REALLY catchy and upbeat and it made me want to fly a super-sonic jet through mountains of icy fire and then make the jet transform into a space shuttle and rocket into space at the speed of light and then explode into a plethora of rainbows and anti-matter stars that would collide with other stars and teleport me to an infinite number of parallel universes.

Brian: Yeah you were listening to chiptune.
chiptune by 2011ends July 18, 2011
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chiptunes 

Music made using the built-in sound synthesizer or any number of devices including the Amiga, the Commodore64, the Gameboy and theNintendo. The resulting sound is lo-fi due to the synth being 8bit.

See chipmusic
I love the bleeps and bloops of chiptunes music.
chiptunes by Xdugef May 24, 2005
Chiptune is a melodic genre of music founded in the mid 1980's to early 1990's. It created using limited sound cards, usually from retro gaming machines such as the NES, Atari ST, and the original Game boys. This creates the sort of sountracks found in games from these platforms. It generally uses basic waveforms such as square, sine, sawtooth, pulse and triange waves. Drums are usualyy reoplicated from white noise running through an ADSR envelope.

Recently there has been an uprising in the popularity of chiptune. Modern artist usually use various emulators to recreate the sound of chiptune, but many people agree that hardware will always create a better sound.

Live performers of the genre such as Sabrepulse, Bit Shifter and Saskrotch, often use gaming machines on stage. Game Boys running synthesis and sequencing programs such as lsdj and nanoloop are very popular.

The Rising popularity of chiptune has brought upon the well know bit festival, a music festival showcasing the genres best in live performances. The popularity of Bit Festival and chiptune in general has brought upon several sub genres such as chipbreak and chipcore mixing the sounds of chiptune with other genres. Almost any electronic genre can be composed as chiptune, and this has attracted the interest of music critics and fans on a global scale.
Chiptune artists include:-

-Sabrepules
-Saskrotch
-Bit Shifter
-Lo-Bat
-Yes, Robot
-8GB
-Neil Voss
-Blasterboy
chiptune by Matt Vandersluys March 20, 2008
A genre of music that it seems like nobody else enjoys except for me.
My friend: This sounds like the inside of a computer
Me: IT'S FUCKING CHIPTUNE MUSIC
Chiptune by KiboBeLoser May 17, 2022

Chipunctinitis 

A common workplace illness brought on by overwork and under appreciation by an over manipulative boss or supervisor usually afflicting common workers to mid-level managers while most upper level managers and executives seem to have be inoculated or are immune. Common symptoms are headaches, fever, hair graying, hair loss, gas, mild diarrhea, explosive diarrhea, eye problems and unusual heavy drinking of alcoholic beverages and in extreme cases drugs. Treatment options can range from 1-2 days of golf or other fun activity to vacation time somewhere tropical. Severe cases may require you to tell your boss to “take this job and shove it” much like the old overplayed Johnny Paycheck tune of the mid 1970’s. Most common industries where this occurs is in the plywood industry but in recent years has spread to other forms of manufacturing and middle management.
Joe called in sick today. He said because of his eye problems he cannot see coming in to work today, says he may have Chipunctinitis.

Stacys chipuntinitis was so bad so told her boss to shove it and moved to Hawaii to sell sea shells on the sea shore.

Manufacturing department had an outbreak of Chipunctinitis and the company is now paying for several sessions of drug and alcohol treatment.
Chipunctinitis by toppywoodcutter November 29, 2011

chipunges 

Friend 1: Hey look that's-
Me: CHIPUNGES
chipunges by MY MUMMY January 30, 2019