I was there too. Not disagreeing with what you wrote, I was replying to "Absolutely no one referred to SID, YM etc. tunes as chiptunes in the *nineties*" They

I was there too. Not disagreeing with what you wrote, I was replying to "Absolutely no one referred to SID, YM etc. tunes as chiptunes in the *nineties*" They absolutely did in the 90s. I was organizing chiptunes nights in my city in Italy in the late 90s early 2000s and we were calling it either 8bit music, chip music or chiptunes. I did not invent the format, I discovered it in Berlin at the times. The guys in Berlin told me that they imported it from Tokyo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯