I've noticed that many times people call music from a game "MIDI" without even knowing if it's MIDI or not. How could they possibly know without having been involved in making the game? (Well, unless .MID files are present somewhere, that would sort of be proof positive.)
I think it's because MIDI music never sounded great on most older systems that only had synth support instead of wavetables, so the average person thinks of MIDI as being "bad", so when they hear generally bad music they assume it was done using some sort of MIDI.
So anyone using the term "MIDI" in such a way is either uneducated about the subject and is throwing lingo around to look smart, or are using the term as an insult, even though it technically isn't. :P
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