Hear video games sound everywhere!

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You never know where you're going to hear classic
video games sounds.


I was at the store yesterday and must have been in the
video game mood, since I heard two destinctive sounds
from classic games. The first was the death Pac-Man
sound, but it was in a little furry/fluffy toy a mom
was showing her very young son how to play with. It
makde a # of sounds, but at the end of this little
song it did was the very destinctive Pac-Man death
sound.

Later in the electronics section, several times I
heard the sound Defender makes when you blow-up (I
never traced it back to the source, so I don't know
what it was). However, nobody was playing any of the
console games, so that's not it.

Scott C.

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don't worry, they have pokies (slots for the yanks, fruit machines for the
poms _ that play certain pacman/ms pacman sounds. Silly thing is, there
made by konami!! Ones a dolphin machine. 33" vga monitor vertical
mounted!!! They would also make great arcade cabs as well.


<scott@hyperspacearcade.com> wrote in message
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> There is a generic "Space Gun" toy that I came across at a Target that
> makes several Defender sounds. Possibly what you heard.
>
> I tracked it down one day after hearing the same thing
>

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Yeh, I agree. I've heard that same 2600 Pac-Man sound
myself several times. It's very distinctive and usually
very wrong (the places, scenes, etc. it's placed in).

Scott C.

computerspacefan@hotmail.com wrote:
> I'll tell you the game sounds that keep cropping up for me.
> The terrible version of Pac-man for the Atari 2600. The game was lousy
> and I didn't think the sounds were all that inspired either, yet I keep
> hearing them being used.
> There was a recent TV commercial with a kid playing a handheld
> Gameboy-type thing and Atari's Pac-man was definitely what I heard
> emanating from it. And a few years ago a really good movie called "Free
> Enterprise" (which any sci-fi fan should definietly watch) and there
> was a restaurant scene in it with a space theme and very quietly in the
> background I could once more make out Atari's Pac-man plinking away.
> Sound designers must really love that rotten game.
>