An 8bit Family Affair

Like many Asian males who never played intramural sports, the boy Fat Kids are avid video game fans. Jerome's Wii is his baby. Bobby's obsession with anything involving a controller stems partly from a console-less childhood. I'll pretty much go wide-eyed for any game that involves stealing cars or firing off rocket launchers. On several occasions, we've talked about doing a gaming blog, but the biggest obstacle is that I can't get games for free on Mininova.

However, we'll always have video game music to tide us over. Enter: Chiptune band, YMCK.

Good entrance.

I mentioned YMCK a few months ago, mistaking them for a Taiwanese band simply because the latest news item on their official website at the time was them playing a Taiwanese festival. Oops.

Anyway, a few days ago I finally got their 2008 release, Family Genesis, and it's Chip-tastic. To pay my respects to this album, I finally signed up for another file-hosting site and uploaded a couple select tracks:

YMCK - Sabita Tobira No Dai 8 Tengoku

YMCK - Starlight

Old habits are still hard to break, so here's a video for sake of blog consistency: