Gaming Soundbites You Can't Forget

Thanks to GameSpot for their 'GameSpotting' editorial discussing game audio soundbites you can't get out of your head. The author recalls: "Just as the sound of a bell ringing made Pavlov's dogs start watering at the mouth in anticipation of their next meal, it was the sound of Street Fighter II that made me want to play." Apart from the article's classic example, "Ryu and Ken's shouts of 'Hadoken!'", what unique game audio captures your imagination every time you hear it?

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That damned laugh.

[Phil Ulrich]

Kefka's laugh from FFIII, the first attempt Square made at including any kind of voice acting. Creepy clown villains... ugh. UWEE HEE HEE HEE HEE!

Baldur's Gate

[hrbrmstr]

Make the voices stop:

"Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes!"

"A hit?!...to...to no effect?!"

"Swords, not words!"

"A den of stinking evil! Cover your nose, Boo: we will leave no crevice untouched!"

I *still* hear these things even though I haven't played BG in years.

Affiliation

[jrivar59]

Hey simoniker, you getting kicks on ads at GameSpot or what?

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Raiden...

[Ron Harwood]

"chopping brocoli!" and "i have a dog now!" are two of my personal favourites...

Re:siege tanks

[ArmorFiend]

"I'm ready to drop the hammer and unleash some indescriminate justice"

I think the above was my .sig for a while.

While playing a LAN game, I snorted coke up my nose the first time my Protoss Carrier Captain complained at me:

"Our enemies are legion ... and still you procrastinate."

Re:WC2

[aidoneus]

Join the army they said...
See the world they said...
I'd rather be sailing. ... ...
Will you stop touching me?
Don't you hav a kingdom to run?

Man that game was (still is if I'm bored) fun. I remmeber a friend of mine was a beta tester, and his copy had other great effect like, "A good review for Warcraft 2".

If you're out there Kevin, thanks for helping me make it through that programming class. 1st Rotvig was awesome.

Skulltulas in Zelda 64

[wcbarksdale]

The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time featured a sort of side quest whose objective was to track down and kill all Skulltulas, who made a very distinctive scratching sound. I was playing the game so much that I started to hear that sound walking around my house...

The CD spinning

[alefbet]

How about the sound of the CD in your PlayStation spinning up, a subtle hint that a new enemy fight might be loading?

Re:Impossible Mission for C64...

[digitalgiblet]

Yeah, baby! Impossible Mission all the way! That was the first digitized speech in a game I had ever heard.

Here's a funny true story...

If you played Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, then you remember the sound the damned probe droids made. If you heard one you had to jump around and look up so it wouldn't zap you from above before you spotted it.

One day I was in a different office than I normally work in and talking to some co-workers. From behind and above me I heard the sound of a probe droid! I almost jumped out of my skin. Turns out there was a problem with the air conditioner, but the sound it made was almost identical to the probe droid. Close enough that my subconscious mind wanted to take evasive action.

Fortunately I was able to stop short of making a diving roll!

Re:siege tanks

[grantdh]

While playing a LAN game, I snorted coke up my nose the first time my Protoss Carrier Captain complained at me:

Dude, you gotta learn to stop the game for a bit if you're going to rack up. It's a good thing you were still able to control your surprise and snort, otherwise you would have blown powder everywhere!!!! :)