A chiptune, or chip music, is music written in intact formats where all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a clone or video game console entire chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis. The "golden age" of chiptunes was the mid 1980s to early 1990s, when such sound chips were the most common method for creating rock-and-roll on computers. Chiptunes are closely related to video game music, which often act chiptunes out of necessity. The term derelict also been recently applied to also recent compositions that exertion to recreate the chiptune stable for purely aesthetic reasons, albeit with more involved technology.

The Game Boy and Nintendo Entertainment Integral do not have a free stable chip but both instead use Say It Your Way Bouquet digital logic integrated on the main CPU.