Chiptune is love.
Yeah I tend to gravitate towards a mentality of "chiptune is chiptune", meaning I don't often find it necessary to include in other, "traditional", genres. If it's all electronic though I think it has a better chance than if someone'd try to make chiptune country. Not to say that CAN'T be done well, but in those kinds of environments the lonely NES, C64 or what-have-you in the corner of the room feels tacked on, basically.
(Recently I made an EP project that had some gameboy in it for a terrible djent-metal, electronic, ambient project. Not something I recommend, but it didn't turn out that bad, I think.)
Anyway: I used to be a chiptune purist, meaning I didn't much tolerate when a tune was labeled as chiptune, but had only little material that was actually reminiscent of chiptune. I mean, soundcloud kids who clearly make EDM for the masses that use the occasional arpeggio or even a n64 videogame sample here and there, not the worst but I don't call that anything other than what it is.
I neither hate nor like that, but on kind of a similar note I've grown fonder of "fakebit" (read: modern DAW chiptune) thanks to artists such as, but not limited to: Malmen, Rymdkraft, Fantomen K and Dunderpatrullen.
Chiptune brought into the future(<- no, not the REAL future. The cool future with lightgrids and cool primitives floating in space), basically.
Having said that:
djhaka wrote:What I listen to tends to ebb and flow. If I get bored I can always come back a few months later and I'll enjoy it again 
This ^ applied to all genres except Yodeling.
