8bit Lounge

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Put it this way. Pick the odd ones out:

a) guitar
b) piano 
c) Saxophone
d) gameboy
e) trumpet
f) c64

Chiptune music is indeed ‘fake’. 
Gameboys and Ataris are NOT true musical instruments. Musical SOUNDS come out of them, but they are not real instruments. So then, by definition, any person who bases their entire musical output on pieces of equipment that aren’t real instruments, aren’t real musicians. And thus, their music isn’t real. ie. FAKE.
The word ‘synthesised’ comes from the word ‘synthetic’, as in ‘synthetic grass’, which is grass that ISN’T REAL. In other words, grass that is FAKE. ‘Synthesised’ sounds = FAKE sounds.
I’ve even heard it from chip musicians themselves. A chiptuner I talked to recently called himself a (and I quote) ‘bullshit musician’ (unquote). They don’t even consider THEMSELVES real.