What do you get when you take Pandora’s music streaming concept and replace it with just videogame music? You get 8-bit FM!8-bit FMis a streaming videogame music station that plays everything from videogame soundtracks, remixes, Nerdcore and Chiptunes.
Music is streamed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As I write this, the Yo’ster’s Island theme fromSuper Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Starscame on followed by the Aquatic Ambiance theme fromDonkey Kong Country. Those two playing back-to-back totally just made my weekend.
Head on over to8-bit FM, press play and jam out.
For Immediate Release: 8-Bit FM streaming radio launches. The newstation’s format features video game soundtracks & remixes, nerdcorehip-hop, and a heavy rotation of the emerging “chiptune” genre.
New York, NY – Jul 09, 2025 – Mnemosyne LLC, makers of Tentacle Grapesoda, launch a new brand in their stable of “geek chic” properties —8-Bit FM. The streaming radio channel, plays a mix of video gamesoundtracks & remixes, nerdcore hip-hop, and a heavy rotation of theemerging genre known as “chiptunes”; songs composed and played on retrovideo game hardware like original Nintendo Gameboys.
With the recent success of the touring orchestral experience “Video GamesLive” and the low-tech / high energy explosion of New York’s BlipFest,Mnemosyne saw the time was right to launch a central destination forchiptunes and nerdcore.
“We felt it was high time chiptunes were available on Internet radio”,says Julia Hiroko Howe, Founder of Mnemosyne. “For over 10 years, talentedartists worldwide have been repurposing their old gaming hardware intobona fide sound gear.”lineup includes musicians like the nerdcore mainstayMC Frontalot along with exotic featured artists such as The OneUps, anArkansas-based jazz band which arranges popular game tracks for liveperformance.
Mnemosyne believes in the streaming radio format as a way for listeners todiscover new artists in a genre dominated by downloads and searches.
Mnemosyne Partner, Dekker Dreyer says, “With 8-Bit FM we wanted to make astation that broke some ground while bringing together a community oflike-minded listeners. It’s not so much about airplay format as it isabout lifestyle. With streaming radio we’re able to broadcast to aspecific audience and turn them on to new artists and sounds that theymight not have found without a lot of searching. That’s what’s so coolabout streaming.”
Beyond the 24 / 7 music stream, 8-Bit FM also offers an open calendar forartists and promoters to list their upcoming events and a “shout-out”feature powered by Twitter.
“Chiptunes may have originated with gamers, but they appeal to non-gamers,like experimental sound artists and tech-heads. The station hasdemonstrated a strong viral component as fans request their favoriteartists and compete for the top 20. This year, the art form is trulypoised to make more than a blip, we predict it’ll be quite a phenomenon!”
8-Bit FM is available atwww.8bitfm.comvia a browser-based flash playerand Windows Media, WinAMP, and iTunes compatible streams. Live requestsare open 24 hours a day.
