What is it in game music that you like so much and how could it be better?

I don't have a whole lot of time, so I think I'll try a single question rather than all at once, and then perhaps later I can edit the post to include more (or perhaps even the rest) of the answers.

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8. Video gaming had a reputation for a long time of being a childish or geeky hobby, and a part of it persists today. Inevitably, to a certain extent, the music also fell under this denigrative categorization (especially retro chiptunes). Do you think VGM is as valid as any other music from a listener's point of view? Additionally, are you fully comfortable about mentioning you listen to VGM when you discuss with someone who isn't into gaming?

I'm fully of the opinion it's become a more valid form of music in recent years. I wish I could remember who originally said it, but I often tell people that it's "not just bleeps and bloops anymore". My parents hate video games, so putting on my music around them is a challenge. For this, I tailored a playlist of VGM that sounds more like classical/movie music. I actually get excited when they ask "What's this playing?" because that usually means they like it. I'm not always comfortable when mentioning VGM to people not so much into the genre. However, having made other playlists for groups (parents, friends, etc.) helps sometimes to get over this hurdle. (OCRemix works wonders around friends for me.) That, in my opinion, is one of the great things about VGM, is that there's something you can find for just about anyone, whatever their music taste might be.

Going along your logic from earlier, I think it's fairly true to say that VGM becomes more known as the games from which they stem become more known, too. A good example of this, I think, would be the volume 1 album of the Halo 2 soundtrack. While it wasn't all that appealing to me as a VGM listener with there being not so much score and more stuff from pop artists, I do think it did kinda put VGM's foot in the door for other people that don't listen to it by mixing it with music by artists people probably knew. And I applaud the efforts of people like those of Video Games Live that strive to make VGM more known.

Jam it back in, in the dark.