Have you ever had a tune stuck in your after playing a computer game for too long? Well, I know I have. You dont even have to play for very long to get it under your skin and that is because both the simplest 8-bit coded music from the mid 80es, and the movie-like music of Baldurs Gate, is actually rather catchy. So catchy that it is now catching on in a wider sense and bands such as 8 Bit Weapon is getting more broadly known and popular. The Wikipedia entry on 8 Bit Weapon it shortly explains the idea:

"8 Bit Weapon is a chiptune music band created by Seth Sternberger. 8 Bit Weapons' instrument set is primarily composed of old 8-bit computers such as the Commodore Vic-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore Amiga 500, and the Apple II, as well as game consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Atari 2600, and an Intellivision synthesizer. 8 Bit Weapon started around 1999 by remixing Commodore 64 SID tunes like Crazy Comets, M.U.L.E., and some Nintendo N.E.S. game music such as Super Mario Bros 2, and Metroid."

There exist other bands as well, specialized in playing computer game soundtrack music such as the Danish band "Press Play on Tape". The band is featuring six computer science students from Univesity of Copenhagen who in 2000 started out playing the soundtrack music from Commodore 64 games they know so well. Since then they have performed at more then twenty concerts, several of them outside their hometown Copenhagen; here is a video of the band playing "Monkey Island" from the demoscene event Breakpoint 2007 in Germany: