He did not initially anticipate that the project would be successful in the long term, but it received a positive community response online – particularly on YouTube, which he likened to the "Tin Pan Alley of video game music".

[1] Primarily based in New York City, the band plays arrangements of popular video game songs – which Rosen refers to as "the great video game songbook" – from titles such as Mario Kart 64 (1996) and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998).

[3] Will Friedwald of The New York Sun compared many of the band's arrangements to the compositions of Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder.

[5][6] In a collaboration with Button Masher, the band arranged the song "Meta Knight's Revenge", from the game Kirby Super Star (1996), which appeared on their studio album Backwards Compatible in 2021.

[7] In 2023, the band covered the song "Last Surprise", from Persona 5 (2016); PC Gamer's Mollie Taylor appreciated the reworking, finding "extra jazzy vibes along with a sprinkling of some more retro digitized sound bites.