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Gaming Soundbites You Can't Forget

Posted by simoniker on from the fatality-ality dept.

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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  1. Impossible Mission for C64... by Grenamier · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stay a while.... STAY FOREVER!!!!!!!

    As soon as I read the article, that popped into my head...also the score and sounds from Defender of the Crown on the C64 bring back fond memories...they put that SID to good use...

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    -- John Truong
    1. Re:Impossible Mission for C64... by ZzzzSleep · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Quoth Grenamier:
      Stay a while.... STAY FOREVER!!!!!!!
      Hey! Don't forget
      "Destroy him my robots".
      Were there any other C64 games that had speech like Impossible Mission?

      ZzzzSleep
      --
      Emerald Astrology
  2. Gauntlet by loftwyr · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I still say them when I'm hungry

    Wizard needs food, badly

    Elf shot the food

  3. Mean Streets by mohhomad · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mean Streets creeped me out the first time I heard: "They're in my head, they're in my head" coming out of my PC Speaker

  4. halflife by lordrufus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the sound of the headcrabs jumping playing that game at 2 in the morning in dark - the sound of a head crab made me empty a whole clip into thin air i got shivers watching the HL2 vids when you hear the headcrabs