oh yes, this really has it's own genre

       Arcade games in the 1970s often contained music of some sort, but it was typically monotonous and so indistinct that it was easily dismissed and parodied. Often this music was simply folk songs which were transposed by the programmers, who might have known little about music. This trend continued in arcade games well into the 1980s, and in early home consoles and computers until the release of the Commodore 64 and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Previous game systems and home computers had for the most part continued the beeps and boops of early arcade games (except for the Magnavox Odyssey, which was silent). There were some exceptions however, and arcades often generally led the industry in technological innovation. For example some early games played fully sampled soundtracks from tapes, and many games by Exidy featured fully sampled digitized soundtracks.

       The many games made for the Nintendo Entertainment system almost all featured a similar style of music which can come closest to being defined as the "Video game genre" of music in terms of composition, as opposed to simply being called "video game music" because it is in a video game or is being played from a video game console. Some compositional features of this genre continue to influence certain music today, although because of the trend for games to emulate movies, many soundtracks shy away from this style because it is not similar to a style of music played in movies.

       There have been games developed in recent years which actually use the music as a necessary component of the game. The most notable of these is the popular Dance Dance Revolution series, where players step on arrow buttons on a dance pad in time to the music. This genre is known as rhythm games.