 In addition to incorporating sounds from contemporary video games into their music, the band would later have a major influence on much of the video game and chiptune music produced during the 8-bit and 16-bit eras.Sega's 1982 arcade game "Super Locomotive", for example, featured a chiptune cover version of YMO's "Rydeen" (1979);

several later computer games also covered the song, such as "Trooper Truck" (1983) by Rabbit Software as well as "Daley Thompson's Decathlon" (1984) and "Stryker's Run" (1986) arranged by Martin Galway.By 1983, Konami's arcade game "Gyruss" utilized five sound chips along with a digital-to-analog converter, which were partly used to create an electronic rendition of J.S.