best computer game sound

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Tiny whoomph of air as Mario slams a newly-won shine into the sky.

(My actual answer, predictably: "MEMMBERS OF THE GOLLDEN RHINO")

haha!

Hahah yesss! That always used to crack me up laughing, for some reason.

Another fave of mine: one of the "tv station" gobbledegooks from the Sims 1, which is this guy doing a tuff action movie sort of ramble that ends in something that sounds like "cubbidahhhh" (meant to sound like "coming sooon!" I guess).

  / ------------------ /

 / PREPARE TO QUALIFY /

/--------------------/ 

"yes?"
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
"STOP TOUCHING ME"

etc

"more work!?"

haha xpost!

OTM! lock thread.

i was just listening to something from FSOL, and it reminded of a cool sfx in Res Evil 4 in the monks castle. It's the relentless background drone you always hear when a new wave of zombies starts. Great stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k35dUj5kG90

sfiv arcade insert credit

the sound that plays when Link ohsodramatically displays the goods he's pillaged from a treasure chest

[y'know, like this http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk165/Alixsar/LoZ/Part%2013/LegendofZeldaThe-OcarinaofTimeUV-11.jpg]

AND

the sound in Super Mario World when you press 'select' to switch your current item with the item in the box at the top of the screen

AND

the noises that accompany moving spies in Civilisation Revolution.

Soda Popinski's taunting laugh in Mike Tyson's Punch Out

FATALITY

actually FINISH HIM is more classic

Boss laugh from NES Kung Fu

xp what about TOASTY

I've always been a fan of "Reticulating Splines" from SimCity 2000

Lemming splat.

Voice acting from Megalomania on the amiga.

EVERY sound from Worms but in particular "Oi nutter" and "incomiiing!"

There are tons of classic SFIITurbo sounds...E. Honda's laugh along with the crowd going "oooooooh!" after he wins being one. The little tune that plays in Dr. Mario when you clear two at once and you're about to drop some random pillz on your opponent's side (or vice versa)

My favorite SFIITurbo sounds are from the car bonus stage. Especially the two-hit combo from getting up close with Ryu and hitting Roundhouse.

xp lbj - "Toasty!" is very very classic.

No denying these:

He's on fire!
He's heating up!
BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA!
Ugly shot!
Ugly shot!
Ugly shot!
For three!
JAMS it in!
Wide open!
From downtown!
At the buzzer!

OH MY

And the repeated drunken-hate-fucking-a-blanket sound of the players pushing each other down and stealing the ball over and over again.

UNGh, ungh *squeek* ugnh, *squeek squeek* Ungh unngh UNGh *squeek*

The drowning sounds in Sonic, gradually speeding up and followed by the beautiful "wap WOP" when you catch an air bubble

I've been playing the 16 bit sonics again on my hacked wii and i was surprised by the emotional responses of stress and relief i still felt from these two sounds!

The health, armor, and ammo pick-up sounds in TFC and TF2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I08YhKdsHSM

NIIIIIKKSEEKKEE DDDKKKRRRRRRRIIIIIIKKKKKVVVVVINNN

Seconded:

everything in yar's revenge
'mein Leben'
the sound that plays when Link ohsodramatically displays the goods he's pillaged from a treasure chest
"Reticulating Splines"
Impossible Mission generally (the incredibly long falling-to-your-death scream just over "stay forever!")

Would add:

DOOM: exploding barrel, roaring minotaur, general background gurgles and moans
Zelda II: Ganon's "AW AW AW AW AW" from the Game Over screen, also all the kind of weird ringing sounds made by swords hitting armor and stuff
Mario 64: "Yah! Yahooey! YIPPEEEE!," also the running-feet sound
Donkey Kong: Mario jumping over a barrel
Ultimate Wizard for C64: long painful death sound
Demon Attack: pew-pew-pew-pew of those guys who slobber laser beams down on you
Duck Hunt: dog laugh
all early digitized speech, esp. Cave Of The Word Wizard ("SPELL... CAGHGH!")

Also, turn-of-the-90s digitzed speech, when it sounded more realistic but still took up so much disk space that any given game would have maybe eight lines, which would acquire special, mystical power: "GET SCORPIO" from Countdown, the Guardian's periodic bellowing in Ultima VII* and the insults and chatter from Wing Commander II ("I will feast on your entrails!")

* - also, the Great Earth Serpent's impenetrable clues from Ultima VII Part Two: "SEEK THE HORN! THE GWANI HORN!"

Speech became really diluted by the time of, say, King's Quest VI, but I still treasure the shopkeeper's "HELLOOOO, PRINCE ALEX!" and a lot of stuff from Return To Zork, which I think I've posted about on here somewhere before. (search: "I need a new battery!", also the instant classic "Want some rye? COURSE ya do!")

the sound that plays when you heal your pokemon at a poke centre in pokemon red/blue

Was thinking the other night about how great the Yoshi sound effect is, and how impossible it is to even sort of do an impression of it since it combines this sort of melodic whooshy sound with a percussive SNES pssh-thump sound.

(Although, by the by, all the sound effects from Yoshi's Island are just about perfect, especially the sound when Yoshi tries to lick something unpalatable.)

6.5 years later, my answer is still the same.

BEWARE, I LIVE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-XEINagmaU

All the weird pick-up sounds in Wolfenstein 3-D, love those sounds!

The sound of the dragon breathing in the first Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game for Intellivision.

My brother recently reminded me of all the sounds from PITFALL, particularly the sad, abrupt blurt when you run into a campfire and die. On C64, this was a b-side cartridge with DEMON ATTACK which has basically one of the best, sparest, all-sounds no-music soundtracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cee8ec9hFKo

chu! chu! chu! tiddly-doo VOIIIIIIIIP
VOOIIIIIIIIP
VOOIIIIIIIIP
pew!pew!pew!pew!

BBC Chuckie Egg, probably the sound of my childhood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepg0OUTcsc

(the tune before the game starts isn't exactly a 'best' sound, because it plays every. single. time. and is unskippable, when you just want to get on with the next game)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xtJrq-SpVs

i'm shit hot at galaxians fwiw

http://youtu.be/SsLL2yu2tfA

rats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsLL2yu2tfA

Repton 2, that bladdy tune!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6erDu3Ox7Qs

sounds like my doorbell

Another earworm, courtesy of Repton 3...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwl0ISGyHck

(cock-up blocks in a key at 1:30, lol)

Came to post Yoshi sound effect, realized I did two years ago. Sigh.

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FTW

i mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGE0P_jWWSg

ftw

old sound-blaster fm synth chip music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekMbt-ZfexI

OTM, everything from that era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZdNI5ZNi8c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pZHrlPIv4M

the morrissey groan that the grunts in doom do sometimes when they die (not the shriek)

oh man, doom sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS1TQKe_D18

I know I mentioned the minotaur upthread and it's kind of a generic monster/yell sound but it sounded SO FUCKING LOUD and terrifying the very first time I reached the first one of those guys. This past week I played through Halo 3 on a whim and it was a lot of fun blowing shit up, some real thrills, but there was nothing quite like that moment and in general the monster/gun design seemed kinda blah. The good old days.

every sound in this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE9GVn2mjs8

Half Life 2 - "You're Not Supposed to Be Here" song. Reminds me of some of the 80's arcade synthy tunes as well (thinking of 720 degrees)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEk-eKxgRyU

wow @ "chimera"

oh lord going down a rabbit hole on you tube listening to these. I found the tune 'Zeboom' from the Dreamcast game Toy Commander and now I'm just annoyed that this game hasn't been remade.

i'm surprised the civilization screenshot at the very beginning of this thread is still live 8 years later.

--the sound of the protoss warping in a building
--the various approaches the narrator in gabriel knight 1 takes to the word "gabriel"
--the ever-rising keen of a consecutive series of psi attacks in alpha centauri
--the cat lady in the burned-out apartment building in deus ex's paris muttering "greasy green greasels--haHA!"
--the zelda "discovery" sound, but not the treasure chest fanfare
--the ambient sound of the hidden health-cap-increasing areas in prince of persia: the sands of time
--chained mario 64 jumps: WAH! HOO-HOO! WAH-HAAAA!
--the boom-diddle-boom drum riff that plays when you click on a house in age of empires: compose whole symphonies from attenuated pieces of this single sound by timing your clicks on at least two houses
--the gargled, upwardly spiraling howl of a warcraft 2 unit having "bloodlust" cast on it

--the wobbling-bass death sound in zelda 2: the adventure of link ("GAME OVER / RETURN OF GANON"), followed by ganon's digitized bwa-ha-ha

im kinda heavily into sega coin-ops ca. 1985 - 1992 at the moment, and it is amazing to me how closely the sound design on certain games resemble sounds heard in detroit techno. like there's these two disparate groups of composers and sound designers working contemporaneously and with the same technology making very similar sounds, yet as far as i know jeff mills or whomever has never came out as a massive space harrier head

like the next time some vintage synth dullard bemoans the advent of digital fm synthesis just point them in this direction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHIyUBbPbBg

how is the mario coin / 1up not listed anywhere here?

Forks, represent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYQXDQPDOMk