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[Darkmakaimura]

I'm talking about those games from the late 70s and early '80s more specifically but I will alsoinclude middle or late '80s.

I'm talking about video games that have some voice in them. Good example was Ghostbusters on the Nintendo entertainment System.

"GHOSTBUSTERS HAHAHAHA!"

 

[Chuck Berry]

Blades of Steel

 

[BennyBlanco]

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Yeah that was supposed to say old

 

[Holammer]

 

[Darkmakaimura]

We have a visitor. Stay awhile. Stay forever!

 

[BennyBlanco]

Yeah that was supposed to say old

This Ghostbusters gag in the first 10 seconds of this always confused the shit out of me as a little kid, and watching this now it's still pretty confusing

 

[Mr Hyde]

 

[falconhoof]

Peaked here, such clarity and before Dolby 5.1 was even a thing.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Supposedly the first video game with synthesized speech. "Help me!"

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Sinistar



Beware...RUN RUN RUN

 

[Holammer]

I remember AVGN talking about the samples in this one. Never played it myself.

 

[nowhat]

We have a visitor. Stay awhile. Stay forever!

Unless my early onset dementia is striking too hard, that would be "Another visitor". But yes. Incidentally, never finished the game although I played the fuck out of it as a kid. Never could figure out what I was ultimately supposed to do despite clearing all the rooms. But I guess that's why it's "impossible".

 

[willothedog]

'Welcome to the fantasy zone, get ready!'

 

[Uncle Moe]

 

[buenoblue]

Nothing worse than a spelling error in thread title. Do people not read before hitting post?

 

[spookyfish]

Supposedly the first video game with synthesized speech. "Help me!"

Beat Crazy Climber (also 1980) by about 5 or 6 months.

 

[Diseased Yak]

Not too many games with talking pigs.

 

[Wildebeest]

1986. Atari ST only had a synth chip, no samples supported.

 

[intbal]

Wizard of Wor

 

[Darkmakaimura]

'Welcome to the fantasy zone, get ready!'

Hearted for Gorf!

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Wizard of Wor

I loved that game but for some reason it was a little bit hard to find in my area.

 

[MooMilk2929]

skate or die 2 had speech. and a clip of a guitar which they played over and over to make it sound like it was an actual rock song.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Never waste a chance to post some Bayou Billy

 

[StreetsofBeige]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Never waste a chance to post some Bayou Billy

Dee avengers of bai birwy!

 

[uncreativename]

 

[NeverYouMind]

Action 52 for NES had something...

 

[Grenseal]

B-17 BAWMER!!

 

[Magic Carpet]

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

Certified hood classic.

 

[LuxFixxins]

Certified hood classic.

 

[MooMilk2929]

I forgot, Sinistar has voice clips too.

 

[spookyfish]

B-17 BAWMER!!

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

 

[gpn]

SINISTAR

 

[Cattlyst]

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

 

[ToughestSoul]

Turtles 2 on the original Game Boy had "Cowabunga" and "Pizza time".

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Sinistar

Came here to post this

 

[BigLee74]

"Thread titles that has grammatical errors"

180 the spectrum (a darts game).

 

[Games Bookstore]

Its 1990 but im sneaking this one in. "Rrrrrrrr stunt driver"

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Fear Effect Games

 

[Radical_3d]

1989

 

[Trunx81]

PIZZA TIME!

 

[Davevil]

There was no arcade in my city where you could hear this sound as soon as you entered.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

"GHOSTBUSTERS HAHAHAHA!"

You have hit me the feels with this one. Great job, man.

Adding this awesome game:

Damn, I hadn't seen someone posting it before, some culture going on in this thread!


Ok, a new one:

 

[Toots]

I'm talking about video games that have some voice in them. Good example was Ghostbusters on the Nintendo entertainment System.

Don't remember the speech but i will always remember the "don't touch the denden" screen of this one

Can't find a pic online unfortunately but i found something else i never saw before, the ending screen

"proved the justice of our culture"

I don't conglaturate the devs for this one.

 

[Toots]

More on topic tho i always loved the "I live... again" from Blood

 

[calistan]

Peaked here, such clarity and before Dolby 5.1 was even a thing.

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.

 

[Holammer]

Peaked here, such clarity and before Dolby 5.1 was even a thing.

That's a good sample, getting music at all on the speccy is impressive enough. But you if you have enough RAM and CPU you can do anything.
With 386 PCs we had enough omph to easily play multichannel mod music on the humble PC speaker.



A similar feat was managed in a 2008 C64 demo where they whipped the machine into playing a tracker tune. There's not much CPU left to draw something fancy on the screen.

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Sampled speech in Microprose's Kennedy Approach on the C64 was actually an important gameplay mechanic.
I did not understand the game at all as a dumb kid. Pirated copy, no manual and a poor grasp of what air traffic control actually is.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

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