Is it possible that both the album and the genre are named after the video game? or it could be some kind of chain (genre->album->video game)
Now i just want to play outrun. I wonder if there's an arcade nearby...
Now i just want to play outrun. I wonder if there's an arcade nearby...
Folks like Kavinsky later (re)popularized synths and made explicit throwbacks to the game, like the album name. I don't know where the term "Synthwave" came from, but it does look like one of those throwbacks.