 Though entirely chiptune records were uncommon at the time, many mainstream musicians in the pop rock,

hip hop
 and electronic music

genres were sampling arcade game sounds and bleeps during the golden age of video arcade games (late 1970s to mid-1980s), as early as Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Computer Game" in 1978.Buckner & Garcia's "Pac-Man Fever" and the album of the same name were major hits in 1982.Arcade game sounds were one of the foundational elements of the electro music genre, which in turn inspired many other electronic dance music genres such as techno and house music, which were sometimes referred to as "bleep music".