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Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge

Awesome, thanks guys!

I'll take 10.

I like this shirt.

Thankfully, I don't get this impression of the scene, at all!

I've been to dozens of chip shows and booked a handful as well. There's a very reasonable balance of being able to do what you want *with* respect for the audience. You may have taken the 'don't do obvious covers / crowd pleasers' sentiment too literally. I think most of us want to keep the audience happy, it's just that the chip scene is generally diverse enough (in musicians and fans alike) to not have to succumb to the extreme you presented in the other thread-

Does that make any sense? It's definitely not about alienating or ignoring your audience, but most of us can get by without exploiting some sort of novelty. You can certainly please the crowd with music and a presentation that you know your growing fan-base loves. It's just that throwing in a mario cover for recognition is a potential exception that most of us would just find too corny and offputting. But otherwise, by all means, there's nothing wrong with trying to put on a great show for your audience.

TLDR- it's really not too different than other types of music. I play chip shows with the same mindset that I play with my 'pop/rock' band. I just wanna play music I'm proud of that hopefully the audience will really dig too... and that's probably the mindset of most performing chip artists.

What if you do covers that aren't obvious/ easy crowd pleasers?
Like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure from the Atari Lynx... or Zombie Nation. lol

I've done lots of covers with various projects, but never meant for recognition to be a primary factor in its fun.
Chromelodeon did a bunch of video game covers, although the name Sprite Slowdown was eventually adopted for that to sort of distinguish it and not 'take away' from originals, even though content from both would be played at some shows. I think on our last tour, we had a Red Max and Doom cover amongst the rest.

Cheap Dinosaurs, not counting the Goblin covers, has also snuck a Chinese pop song into a couple sets. And some classical music. *shrugs* I'm not worried about the coolness, it seems to work just fine.