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[NeoIkaruGAF]

I loved this arcade machine and the crappy sounds of the dinosaurs (really awesome back in the day)

This looks and sounds amazing! How do you play this game these days?

 

[old-parts]

1985s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Arcade game by Atari has some funny sounding digitized voice clips, it works in some parts and sounds like they are having a heart attack in others.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

This looks and sounds amazing! How do you play this game these days?

It's on emulation. There are many packs with thousands of arcade machine roms than run on any potato computer or even mobile, though I bought an old arcade machine for these.

 

[Uberman77]

Elf needs food - badly.

 

[Duchess]

Does the intro to Blood Money count..?

 

[Sophist]

Star Ocean on super nes had dialogs during the opening scene.
Mortville manor (atari st, 1987) had audio dialogs:

 

[STARSBarry]

SINISTAR

Immediatly thought of this, I played it in the early 1990"s and it was still cool as hell then.

And right here in my hand currently...

Gotta love it when you get good sequels.

 

[falconhoof]

I was going to mention that one. You only heard the speech the first time it was loaded up (maybe the game uncompressed something into the space occupied by the speech).

The first time I heard it, I was so amazed that I loaded it again to make sure I hadn't imagined it.

I often loaded and reloaded the game to marvel at it. I guess the memory was reused after the sample played hence why it only happened on first load.
I couldn't get my head around how it was done at the time.

 

[kevboard]

 

[Uncle Moe]

Blades of Steel

So good. I can close my eyes and hear this as clearly as though I had just booted up the cartridge.

 

[SupaComputa]

Blehves zov shteel!

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

I'm bad!

 

[xrnzaaas]

Super Robin Hood on the Amstrad CPC 464 has some interesting very low quality speech samples

I was about to post this thing, probably the first game where I encountered speech. I still remember how cool it was instead of just hearing simple clicky sounds or music.

 

[Team Andromeda]

I still have my voice module for my Intellivision

 

[Bigfroth]

This game blew me away as a kid lol.

 

[PlayStaytion]

Many PS1 games and 90s PC games.

 

[calistan]

I often loaded and reloaded the game to marvel at it. I guess the memory was reused after the sample played hence why it only happened on first load.
I couldn't get my head around how it was done at the time.

My first suspicion was that it was just recorded on the tape. The intro tune is permanently etched into my brain due to how many times I heard it.

The programmer is still active on the ZX Spectrum Next, somebody should ask him how he did it (not that I'm likely to understand the answer).

 

[AJUMP23]

Never waste a chance to post some Bayou Billy

I would rescue her.

 

[Mephisto40]

A little later than the 80's but still valid

 

[Wolzard]

Several Genesis games feature voices, even if the voices are hoarse.



Interestingly, this channel has made other compilations:




I always remember that bizarre game, BallZ 3D, which had a song sung in the opening.



The SNES version is completely NSFW. Imagine the mothers hearing this when they see their son playing.

 

[ZeroZeroQuatre]

Speech ?
Tales of Phantasia (SFC) had a complete song :

 

[MooMilk2929]

Forgot to mention Gex.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

I remember Ghostbusters II game had some snippets from the movie (which all sounded like Bane in a bathroom)

 

[Gurgeh]

The spectrum game Splat! from 1983

 

[calistan]

A little later than the 80's but still valid

Reminds me of Xenon 2, which came on two discs for the Amiga. The first disc being just the sampled Bomb the Bass intro song.

 

[The Goddamn Mike]

1985s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Arcade game by Atari has some funny sounding digitized voice clips, it works in some parts and sounds like they are having a heart attack in others.

This is the funniest thing I've encountered in a short while. Thank you. It's parts "Star Wars bar alien talks" and parts "Japanese influencer with Down Syndrome commentates." A treasure, regardless.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Played this, TRON Solar Sailor and … there was one more I can't remember.

Either Bomb Squad or Space Spartans.

This game blew me away as a kid lol.

Fantastic game. Blowing up the ships into bits and pieces. Love it.

 

[CrustyBritches]

Earl Weaver Baseball on Amiga. One of the best baseball games of all time. Used Amiga's built-in voice synth for play by play.

 

[spookyfish]

Either Bomb Squad or Space Spartans.

Fantastic game. Blowing up the ships into bits and pieces. Love it.

I think it was Space Spartans. I remember the name, but don't remember Bomb Squad at all.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Sinistar



Beware...RUN RUN RUN

Beware, I live!

 

[Hudo]

Didn't some of the games for the Texas Instruments TI99/4 series have synthesized speech? I believe the speech synthesizer was a pretty popular hardware add-on for those computers.

 

[mdkirby]

Ripper
Phantasmagoria 1 & 2
Under a killing moon
Pandora directive
7th guest
11th hour
Day of the tentacle
The Dig
The curse of monkey island (but not the first monkey island, at least until the remaster)
(Bunch of other Lucas arts games)

(some of these will have slipped into early 90s)

 

[Davevil]

the goat

 

[archangelmorph]

One of my favs from back in the day.

I'd love to know if anyone else here has played this one:

 

[MrCunningham]

Several Genesis games feature voices, even if the voices are hoarse.



Interestingly, this channel has made other compilations:




I always remember that bizarre game, BallZ 3D, which had a song sung in the opening.



The SNES version is completely NSFW. Imagine the mothers hearing this when they see their son playing.

No mention of the Sega Sports Talk series?

 

[MrA]

2 atari 2600 games had speech
Quadrun


and open sesame



Baseball on the atari 5200 also had speech

 

[DEAD ORIGINAL]

Elf needs food - badly.

Blue wizard shot the food.

 

[CashPrizes]

The one that stuck with me more than any of these:


Surprised no one had posted yet. Heard it in arcades for sure, but to be the pack in game with the Genesis and they open with pretty good speech tech was crazy!

 

[CastorSoze]

Think the first game I played with audio that actually contributed to the game outside of samples was in the 90s. Valhalla and the Lord of Infinity.
Only played the demo I got with CU Amiga

Someone remixed some of the audio clips for an Amiga Power disk.