Nerdcore

Many nerdcore anthems — “You Got Asperger’s” by MC Frontalot, “Fett’s Vette” by MC Chris, “View Source,” by Ytcracker (“Eagerly awaiting my macro advances/running with my beta cuz I’m taking chances”) — are as much efforts at comedy as they are attempts at sincere hip-hop.

A nerdcore track would take loop samples not from popular industrial tracks, but from the synthesizers of a popular NES game like Dig Dug…

Self-styled “nerdcore” rappers wear pocket protectors and rhyme about hard drives.

We're tech reviewers, not nerdcore programmers…

But the warmest spot in my nerdcore heart is reserved for the old-school pleasures of the Wii Virtual Console.

But it takes the right kind of noodle to make a great gaming rig worthy of the “nerdcore elite” (and we mean that in a good way) without spending a fortune.