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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. All I can say... by Only+in+the+dark · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Flawless Victory.

    Now if it just saying it for me, instead as my friend kicks my ass for the thirteen time in a row.

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    We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.--Author Unknown
  2. That damned laugh. by Phil+Ulrich · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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  3. 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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  4. Baldur's Gate by hrbrmstr · · Score: 3, Funny
    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.
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    Mind the gap...
  5. Affiliation by jrivar59 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hey simoniker, you getting kicks on ads at GameSpot or what?

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    1. Re:Affiliation by simoniker · · Score: 4, Interesting

      If there were another 349034385 big gaming sites, then we'll post stuff from those, but as GameSpot, GameSpy, and IGN are the only 3 majors nowadays, and tie up a lot of the exclusives, it's pretty much inevitable that quite a few posts are going to feature them. :) But where do I apply for 'kicks'? Sounds enticing.

  6. Sinistar by Sierran · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sinistar.

    "I *LIVE!*" ...guaranteed to make my fourteen-y/o self start sweating bullets at the machine. Followed by "I *HUNGER!*" a few seconds later as he came for you.

    The awful, dying wrrrrrraaaaaaaarrrrrrrwwwww of your icon sinking down the funnel in Tempest.

    On a more prosaic note, the continuous chika-chika-chika-chika of the frantic buying spree at the beginning of every round of Counter-Strike.

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    A hero is someone who knows when to run away. I am a hero. -Trent the Uncatchable
  7. Ah, here we go by Jerf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    L-loo-l-look at you, Hacker. A pa-pa-pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you ru-run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machineeeenneeee-[electronic sounds]?

  8. Skulltulas in Zelda 64 by wcbarksdale · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  9. The CD spinning by alefbet · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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