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Isn't it weird how a games music is considered outdated if it doesn't use an orchestral score?
(hexbear.net)
Synth music style invented around 30 years ago on technology that didn't exist a generation ago: "This sounds old-fashioned, the developers need to evolve."
Orchestral music played on instruments that have existed for thousands of years, in a style that's existed for hundreds: "Finally, a modern sounding ost!" 
game ~~music~~ audio was how it was because of storage costs, compression limitations, and other hardware limitations. those limitations date the sound the same way changes in recording technology date (western) recorded music more generally.
"modern" in your example might be about the shift from chiptune to "cd quality" audio and the proliferation of licensed contemporary music.
class signifiers go brrrr i guess.
the best not-bwaaaaaaam i think capital would produce would have to have the music deeply tied to the genre, but then the easy thing to do is license.