Video Gamers Podcast - [Bonus Round] Most Iconic Video Game Sounds of All Time - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

Gaming hosts Josh and Ryan are back with a can’t miss gaming packed episode. Join us we chat, reminisce, and break down the most iconic video game sounds of all time! Those sounds every gamer knows by heart and jump to mind at the press of a button. Join us as we break down our favorites and some honorable mentions along the way. This is one gaming episode you don’t want to miss! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Ol’ Jake and Disratory Thanks to Legendary Supporter: UnhingedFury Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod  Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q   Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On this awesome episode, we're going to get a lot of sounds and music stuck in your head because we're breaking down the most iconic video game sounds of all time. This will be an episode to remember, but first some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh, and joining me, you might catch him yelling his war cry of or chanting like a Gregorian monk. It's Ryan. You know, I wish I had the vocal range to do both of those things very well, but I do not. That was not a bad Merlin. That was Merlin.

Right? Yeah, something like that. Oh, man. Well, that is just a tease of some of the stuff that we are going to talk about in this episode. Ryan, I got to say, man, I am pumped for this one. Oh, me too, dude. This is going to be fun. Anytime that we have to come up with a list of stuff, and within 20 seconds, I have 15

different ideas, you know it's going to be something that resonates with the listeners, something that gamers just love. And earlier, we said, man, let's just do those sounds that any gamer in the world could identify that are always right there, just right in the forefronts of our minds. I know my list. I came up with super fast. And then it was kind of fun to think of some stuff that maybe didn't come up right away either. But we're going to cover all that in this episode. We do have a pretty awesome announcement. We have a new legendary supporter

by the name of Unhinged Fury. Yeah, Unhinged. I like that. That's kind of a cool name, man. I mean, Fury, is it ever hinged? Can you have Hinged Fury? I don't know. Like the fighting monks? They got like a kind of a cool name, man. Like, I mean, Fury, is it ever hinged? Can you have hinged Fury? I don't know. Like the fighting monks.

They got like a lot of. Is that Fury? I feel like that's like just. Fists of Fury. Yeah, fists of Fury. I guess. But Unhinged Fury signed up as a legendary member to support the show. They have also chosen a game for one of us to play.

We're not going to reveal that just yet, but they did reach out on that as well. So we are going to cover a game that a listener chose for us to play here in a few weeks. We've got a special Halloween game that we're going to be diving into here pretty soon, Ryan, that I am very excited for. Yeah, I know you guys are excited to watch me. Watch me scream like a girl you might be a chicken in the sense that you're gonna yell and scream but i i get kind of freaked out too man so i think this is gonna be that's gonna be a fun game jump scares i love them and i know they're gonna happen and it gets me every time and it's the anticipation more than anything like oh my gosh what's gonna jump at me when yeah so thank you to unhinged fury for helping support the show

if you want to be like unhinged fury and and support this podcast and continue to bring this to the world you can head over to multiplayer squad.com to check out some of the perks there as well and while we're talking about helping out the show ryan what's a little something we like to do people might might leave a review for us and then what do we do with that usually i think i think we read them live read live to us live we read them live to us on on our recording it's gonna be tough to top the last review that we read, but we do have a review I want to read to everybody. This one comes in from MrMarv77. It is a five-star review, and it's titled,

This is Amazing. And it's short and sweet. It says, I was just trying to find a podcast that wasn't boring and not funny. Then I found this. It's amazing. I wish I knew about this podcast sooner. I write five stars, and you should, too. Break yourself, fool. Write's amazing. I wish I knew about this podcast sooner. I write five stars and you should too. Break yourself, fool. Write another one. Is this going to become a voice?

We're just going to, we have to act out everyone in ridiculous voices now. Hey, we always said we read reviews verbatim. So whatever you put in there, somebody left a review one time that was just a bunch of emojis. And I remember reading that one. So but hey, if you're, you know, speaking of reviews, take a second. If you're listening on Apple podcast, you can leave us five stars and write a review. If you're listening on Spotify, you can rate us five stars. But that really does help the show as well. Ryan, I say we just get into it, buddy. I know we've got a lot to cover on this episode, and I cannot wait to start talking about some of these sounds, man. And Josh earlier, with what he said about how excited he gets,

he's not kidding. He was immediately texting me how big his list was. Oh, I got like 10 now. Oh, now I got like 20, but I trimmed it back down to 15. Oh, no, it's back up to 20. All day, that's what he was doing. It was pretty fun to dive into this and just start going into the recesses of the old brain and trying to remember some, some sounds and stuff like that too. So a little spoiler,

there will be a little bit of really awesome music that is included in here as well. Oh yeah. Ryan, why don't you lead us off, Ryan? Now, I think what we decided was we each came up with a list of sounds. We're going to just kind of go down that list. I think that kind of covers it, to be honest, to prevent this from being like a two-hour episode. I think we're just each going to kind of give our lists, reminisce about the sounds a little bit, and then we'll leave it at that. I don't think we're going to try to crown a number one, but maybe? I mean, we may say it, but yeah, it's not like these aren't gonna be in like any particular order yeah no order we're

just kind of listing off some stuff and i'm sure we'll forget a ton i try to oh think of as many as i could but you know there's gonna be so many that we didn't even remember like yeah it's it's they'll be there what's funny is paul saw us chatting yeah and then he jumped in with a few that he was like oh you guys gotta mention these and i was like oh my goodness those sounds are great too but i was like but they're not on my list so there's so many of them so yeah a lot of people are gonna uh think think about these all all the next few days after they hear this episode yeah all right ryan why don't you start us off here what you got uh well to start off here i am going to go with

is that og pac-man that's on my list as well is it on your list as well absolutely i mean okay i know there's people out there right now that are saying, I have never played a Pac-Man game in my life. This is way too old for me and my gaming takes and stuff like that. But dude, the Pac-Man sound, I think, is universally identifiable to everyone, man. Like I actually, because it's on my list, I played it for my kids early. And I said, do you know what sound this is? And kids were like yeah that's pac-man yeah he's never played pac-man exactly no you can hear it from across the room you just hear you know and you're like

oh that's that's pac-A-K-K-A. Waka, waka, waka, waka. That is exactly how I spelled it. No way, right? On my list. It's spelled waka, waka. Waka, that's how I did it. Oh, man.

That was good. Dude, I remember playing Pac-Man as a kid in the arcade. Thought it was the greatest thing ever. Being able to eat those stupid ghosts, man. And then you get greedy and you try to follow one and then they turn and they turn around and get you smoke it yeah they um growing up i had a uh mexican restaurant we went to as a family all ever since i was a little kid and they always had a pac-man machine there and i always bum a couple quarters off my mom to play it so, I definitely had my fair share of time in on Pac-Man. All right, Ryan. So for me, since we went really old, let's go a little bit more modern. This one,

I think a lot of people are going to know what this is. But my first choice for one of the most is the creeper from Minecraft. Absolutely identifiable to anybody out there. This was another one where I made my kids close their eyes and I just said, what is this? And before it even, I mean, within a half a second, that little fuse sound, they were like, that's a creeper, dad. We know that.

And I was just like, yeah. You know why you know that? Because that's one of those sounds that nobody can ever forget. Yeah, I was pretty late to the Minecraft game. I just started playing with the kids just to hang out with them and check it out. And I quickly learned what that sound was. And then I would get in trouble. You don't forget it either.

It's a dreaded sound. I'm not sure that sound ever comes with happiness, does it? No, I don't think so. All right, what's up next on your list ryan uh so i'm gonna go with uh another older one not crazy old but uh something that's a little more personal but everybody knows this sound it's become a tiktok sound unfortunately but fortunately i guess um and it's the metal gear solid alert sound baby oh dude that was okay this was the very first sound that came to mind for me yeah like when we said what's the most iconic game sounds and i'm not saying that there aren't others that are more iconic but this sound was the very first sound that my brain thought of.

Yeah. Because it was like, because it's like an alert, right? It's not like specific to anything, you know? So it's just, it's just an alert noise,

but it's so that, that is what it to everybody knows that sound and recognizes that sound, you know? And so they may not even know what it goes to, but they know that that sound is an alert sound. What's really funny is if I, if we went anywhere and just posted a red exclamation mark and said, what sound does this make?

Millions of gamers around the world would hear that sound in their head instantaneously, man. It's so funny that like you can post just a, like an exclamation mark it has to be red is the thing but you post that and that sound is going to play in people's minds instantaneously you see like those cosplayers at um the different uh uh conventions and stuff and there'll be snake or somebody and they have the red exclamation mark

above their head you know or they'll be the the soldiers and they'll have it, I mean. And you know, you hear it when you see it. You know, all you have to do is see it. And yeah, it's just one of those definitely long-lasting, iconic, transcending sounds. All right. Ryan, we got to get into a little bit of music here, buddy. Oh, all right. I think that people have been waiting for it. I hinted at it on the intro of the show.

I don't know that there is a more iconic song in gaming than the Halo theme song, dude. Yeah. That opening screen with the Halo ring and the monks chanting and it starts off just

that slowly but then it builds and this is the part I love. This song is like two parts for me. It's the monks chanting. And then it gets into the beat. It's just... I know we're going to have a sample right here, but dude, I was actually clipping this earlier and I was listening to this and I get chill bumps, dude. Yeah.

Like every single time. Every time. I hear this freaking song, man. It's like, I don't know what it is. Yeah, no, it's because it's got that deep harmonious echoing like the monks all singing that like you feel almost spiritually energized and then it just starts

pumping with the drums and you're like I'm ready to go baby and you know everybody whether they can sing worth a lick in their bathroom or in a hallway or something that echoes, done the monks chant like that. You know, everybody's done that.

Dude, I have to share this story real quick. My wife was working in her... She's an artist. And so she was working in her studio. And she listens to a lot of Spotify and stuff when she's doing that. And she sends me a text. I'm at work, and she says, oh my goodness, Halo has some of the best music ever. And she had just kind of randomly come across like the Halo theme song in some playlist that she was listening to.

She has no idea what the Halo music was. I mean, this is not like, I mean, you know, she never played Halo. She knows Mario and Zelda and stuff. But the fact that I got a text message that said, Halo is so good. The music is great. I just was like, I've never been more in love with you in my life. You're so beautiful, darling. It was just the most random thing. But I was like, that just shows you, man.

Yeah. Yeah, when people have no idea that it still hits. I want to address something real quick. You said you got chill bumps bumps yeah you mean goosebumps you never heard it you never heard it called chill bumps that's like the one of the brits it might be a southern thing i'll be honest i because wait listen i grew up in pennsylvania up north and we called them goosebumps okay and then i moved to louisiana when i was 15 and lived there for over a decade and they call them chill bumps down there because it gives you chills yeah right like because people say oh i got chills look at my arm right it makes sense yeah no it does it just i i use those things where you

never hear them a different way very often is this gonna be the new thing ryan i'm gonna post a picture and i'm gonna say everybody's do you call these things. Yeah, Goosebumps or Chillbumps. Let's hear it. And then everybody's going to be like, whoa, Chillbumps makes so much more sense. I know, right? I'm not a goose. Oh, all right, Ryan. It's going to be hard to top the Halo theme song, but what do you got? Oh, man.

Let's go something newer and something in honor of Spooky Month. Something a little spooky. And there's no sound I dread more hearing let's go something newer and something in honor of spooky month something a little spooky and there's no sound I dread more hearing in a game than this freaking clickers dude and the last of us it's i was gonna try to do the voice and i feel like it'd just make me cough oh yeah it'd like rip your vocal cords in half there's something so freaky about that sound and i don't know what it is because it's like you know zombies kind of have like their moan and stuff but the clicker sound is so like guttural yeah or something like it comes from a place that like it shouldn't come from it just sounds so unnatural and then

especially when you pair that with what they look like and what they can do, it just creates that fear of that sound the second you hear it. Yeah, I don't even, my brain's just revolting right now, man. It's almost like those nails on a chalkboard type things where you're just like, oh no, I got to get away. I, oh, all right. You know what, Ryan? Since we're, since we're doing this, I'm going to, I'm going to bring up one that everybody in the world hates this song or this sound.

And I played it for my kids. And they said, we've heard this before. And I said, how does this song make you feel? And they both went terrible, anxious. Oh, I don't like it. And that is... the sonic drowning music oh man there is nothing more anxiety-inducing than this. I'm going to call it a sound. I think it's a song. This one's kind of borderline. I guess it's a song because it plays for a little bit longer. Yeah.

But, I mean, listen, you just heard the sound. Everybody listening just heard the sound. Tell me you don't feel more anxious right now. Yeah. No, that's what it's meant to do. It's exactly what it's meant to do it's exactly what it's meant to do and it is terrifying man like my blood pressure is up just thinking about it like just hearing it and i don't like it whoever came up with that number one is a mastermind in creating anxiety

in a game but also shame on you yeah shame oh man that's that's and poor uh poor sonic too because you see him just go and then his like arms go up and he just drowns and you're like oh sinks right down to the bottom poor little hedgehog oh man my bad my bad all right ryan hit us with one more and then we'll take a quick break here before we get to some more sweet uh let's go with one oh this would be a good one to finish before the break i i would say it's a very good bet that most people are going to know this song uh sound as well because it's one of those just iconic that um transcended like just video games because it was having to do with sports. And so it's going to be EA Sports. It's in the game.

EA Sports. It's in the game. It's in the game. EA Sports. It's in the game. It's in the game. Dude, imagine making just mountains of money, and that's what you do. You just do that audio track like that.

Dude, listen, we don't ea very much around these parts but that was one of the catchiest things that they've ever come up with dude oh yeah when you intentionally like make sure the sound's on so you can hear that coming in because that gets you ready or hyped up like oh absolutely man and this was in like the heyday too when like ea was really making good sports games and they hadn't been just rinsed and repeated for a decade yeah exactly and hearing that sound and knowing that you and your buddies were about to just have this massive showdown in whatever sports game that was loading up you know was so good man yeah it was it was a very good way to get you hyped, and it was just so short and perfect.

Yeah. You know? Short, sweet, just bam. You were ready after that. Yeah. All right, listen. We're going to take a quick break, and then, man, I've still got eight, nine more to talk about.

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Terms and conditions apply. All right, Ryan, I'm going to, you know, let's just, let's just fire this off right now after the break. Oh, here we go. The next one for me, this makes me laugh every single time I hear it. I love watching this video. This is one of the most iconic things I think comes to mind with gaming, and it is...

Leroy Jenkins! Leroy Jenkins, baby! Oh, and it's so good. It's just so good. I can watch the full video of these guys doing the whole raid prep and the 33% repeating, of course, and this whole spiel that they do.

I love the guy, Leroy Jenkins, coming back and just charging in. I know it was all staged, but man, what a moment in gaming. And there is nothing like it. I didn't know that my kids knew Leroy Jenkins. Oh really? And we were driving. So I can't remember where we were. And somebody had a Leroy Jenkins like bumper sticker.

And my kids were like, dad, dad, look, it's Leroy Jenkins. And I was like, how do you guys know about that? And they're like,

dad, we know about Leroy Jenkins. And I was like, have you ever seen the video and they were like wait there's a video oh that's like Christmas day dude right there yeah oh man I wish I could just experience watching that for the first time again like oh dude that was so good man anybody that has ever played WoW or any kind of MMO at all knows what it's like when somebody pulls too early or aggro's

too early or any of that it was just it was the perfect just setup and the perfect sound when that happened and it took the world by storm man and it's one of those two that that i don't know about anyone else but i'll still you know we're waiting to go in and we're gonna rush somewhere we're gonna do something and you're just like forget this and you're just gonna go in leroy jenkins how many times when we were playing hell divers and we were about to like attack like a big bug nest you just run scream it and run over the hill yeah it's it's just one of those that you can use whenever so it's it's almost like a catchphrase thing now that you can use just to be a goofball um that's a good one i love that one all right that's see there it is like all thing now that you can use just to be a goofball um that's a good one

i love that one all right that's see there it is like all the stuff that i thought of and i played a mountain of wow mountain with paul huge on the leroy jenkins video um and i totally spaced that one so you know this is why i act like listen we are not going to be able to cover all of the sounds that people are thinking of right now. Come to our Discord server. Yes. Like we have the best gaming Discord server you have ever seen in your life. It is fantastic. Everybody is awesome.

There is no toxicity whatsoever. But one of the things that we love about it is people love to chat video games or the topics from the episodes or something like that. So if you are not in our Discord server, stop. Look at this episode because in the description is a link. All you have to do is click it and you will be there. And you can tell us about the most iconic sounds that we missed or the songs that you can't believe we talked about or something like that. But come join us. Have fun and be a part of this discussion over there as well. And don't forget, if you join on the Discord,

you have a chance to win a game we're deep diving, Star Wars Outlaws. All you got to do is just join the Discord, totally free. Come in, say hi, and you got a chance to win a copy. Yeah, we are giving away a copy of Star Wars Outlaws, but there are two criteria number one you must be in our discord server and you must listen to the episode to hear your name announced so if you don't catch that you were the winner we're gonna pick somebody else yeah so listen or else all right who's up ryan uh i think it's me. Yeah, yeah, because you just did Leroy.

So I'm going to stick on the wow trend, and it goes with your intro. And it's the beautiful murloc sound. Those stupid, oh, I can still, it's the same thing as any of these other ones that just make you cringe. The second I would hear that when I'm out farming or doing something in WoW and I just hear them and I'm like, it was more of annoyance, you know, because I know you didn't play a lot of WoW or anything, right? I know of the Murlocs. I remember when I was blitzing through WoW when you could level to like 80 within like

two days or whatever. I remember the Murloc area, but this was basically just me slaughtering thousands of Murlocs because it was so simplified at that point. I will say I know this sound very, very well from my time with Hearthstone because anytime you played a Murloc in Hearthstone, it would make that exact sound. So I know this sound very, very well, just not from World of Warcraft. That's funny. Yeah, no, just not from World of Warcraft. That's funny. Yeah, no, it was just one of those where it was just so annoying when you're out looking for stuff or farming. And they had like a big window or a big range where you could pull aggro on them and they just come charging.

And you're like, dang it. And then they pull a few more. You have to go fight four or five stupid murlocs and then go back to what you were doing. And you know everybody has tried to do the murloc sound at some point. They're probably doing it right now listening. I was going to say, we hear you. I know I've done it a few times to try to just see if I can't nail it. Because it sounds like it'd be easy.

And then it ain't easy. It ain't easy it ain't easy though all right ryan i mean this game is so iconic that i hate to dip back into this well but i have to do it one more time the next sound for me and man this is such a glorious sound when this when you hear this it's like you're scared but then you're just you you're covered in warmth and security and that sound is the halo recharge sound when that shield comes back back in the game that warning beep yep you know and it's like i'm gonna die i'm to die. I'm going to die. I'm not going to die. I got my shields back, baby. Charge.

Yeah, exactly. Then you just pop back out. That's when you go and you Leroy Jenkins back into the battle. Yeah. Oh, man. That sound is just, it means life. It means you're back. Yep.

And you didn't die in that interaction until, you know, then you get stuck with like a sticky nade or something right after that. Oh, and then is coming yeah no matter what yeah that's a good one that's that's one of those where just everyone hears it and um it does it just fills you with like warm and fuzzies yep all right what you got ryan uh let's go with one that um a newer game one of our favorites of all time and something that was personally used a mountain of times in my house with my young son. Get in the boat, boy. Boy. Boy.

Boy. This way, boy. Slow down, boy. We do what we please, boy. God of War, Kratos yelling, boy. Boy. Boy. Boy. Boy. Boy. God of War Kratos yelling boy Boy Boy Boy I'm just going to put a bunch of boys in there

Because my son is He was born in 17 Being a real dad I think to 17 So he was pretty young when 2018 came out And he would sit on the couch And whatnot while I was playing And so I'd always go boy and he'd go huh huh he'd like just make a grunt noise and i'd just yell boy

to him and he's he's a pasty little ginger like atreus was so it was perfect dude i i will i wish i had the voice to like actually say that the right way you you were sick last week you're still a little bit but you dude you shared a clip where it was credo saying death can have me when it earns me and you sounded because you had that like sickness in your voice but everybody was like that's not you death can have me when it earns me when i yeah i know it really is me you guys said it he said it a couple other my friends said it it was uh yeah i still got a little bit of the rasp to me. But yeah, when I get sick, my voice just gets so dang deep.

All right. I got it, Ryan. This one, we're just going to jam for a second. We're going to have to let this one play for a few seconds. Okay. Because, dude, every time, I've seen some really good reels made from this. There's a lot of memes about the making of this where somebody's like,

hey man, we just need some pause music for the game. And then you just see people going crazy. And that is... the golden eye pause music oh my goodness goodness, man. Oh, so good. I freaking love this song. Look, okay, number one, this is an absolute banger of a song.

Oh, for sure, yeah. The fact that this is the pause menu music out of nowhere, it just goes that hard? That's how they took games seriously back then, man. Dude, I mean, the fact that we rave about gold and i back in the day and but we got to actually experience this you know and just your friends would be like put the pause music on put the pause and you're like all right all right man and then you just sit there just let it play and it would just loop yeah and you look over and

everybody's doing exactly what we're doing where they're just like just kind of banging their head a little bit and it's bobbing and oh yeah nobody saw us but uh on on our video chat we have when we record we were both definitely just dancing the whole time it's got that it's impossible not to it's got that like kind of boppy just uh beat that's like a bouncy beat dude dude dude dude dude dude dude and so you're just like... If the Halo music gets me amped, the GoldenEye pause music makes me just want to dance, dude. Yeah. I mean, it really makes me want to just start moving. Yep, yep.

It's one of those where you just can't help yourself. You just start, you know... It's so good. You know people in the car or on their phones, wherever they're listening right now, when that played, their head probably moved a little bit. Skip like their head probably get back 15 seconds skip back 15 seconds let me just listen to that again just loop it loop it oh man i i freaking dude between halo and that i cannot i i just it's like gaming paradise man yeah absolutely all right what's up next for you, buddy? So it's for me.

You did that there. So I'm going to go with one that very, very big franchise and another one of those sounds that gives you the warm and fuzzies because you know you're probably doing a good job. You're getting close. But I'm going with... with the modern warfare call of duty whatever ones you want to do with the hit marker sound dude what a satisfying sound like when you know you're lighting that dude up. You get a beat on him. And then you hear the plates crack.

Yeah. You know, like, oh, he's cracked, he's cracked. He's cracked, he's cracked. Push, push. Dude, I don't know what it is. It just, that sound makes you feel so good. And I love that. It's like, you know that you're landing your shots at that point yeah but

it is it is glorious in the dopamine that it just gives your brain like instantly yeah it's like uh the the kids are people who like like the fidget spinners and clicking like switches and stuff it's it's that feeling and then also you know it's like an audible response to your brain like i'm on target keep leading them this way or keep doing whatever i'm doing because it's working and you know so yeah that's one of those ones uh big time and then and then uh i forget which ones but when you get the headshot and it's the tink oh yeah yeah oh yeah overwatch is very good with that where the headshot sound that tink tink t, yeah. Overwatch is very good with that. Oh, nice. The headshot sound, that tink, tink, tink, tink.

Yeah. And you're just like, oh, I just lit that dude up. Yeah. All right. We got to go a little nostalgia on this one. Now, listen, I know this game may not be everybody's cup of tea, and there definitely are people that never got a chance to play it. But for those that did, they know this sound you must construct additional

pylons oh this one was gonna be on my list pylons buddy i was a protoss guy are you a protoss guy i was a protoss guy now i was also a zerg guy i was gonna say you seem like a zerg rush guy yeah i mean i like both i was better with the Zerg than I was with the Protoss. But so in my mind, it's the Spawed War Overlords, you know, but I do think that the Construct Additional Pylons is the more iconic one. We require more Vespene gas.

Yeah, dude. So many, there's so many, like that whole thing, like with even warcraft jobs done yeah you know like just so many good voice lines so what do you think i guess for us you know old timers with the nostalgia coming in and into play and stuff do you think that there was just

video games as a whole with where they were at in the development was just still so new and there wasn't as widespread of indie developers and these other things so there wasn't that many games there was a lot but nothing crazy but the big ones is what everybody played do you think that's why these older sounds hit so hard for us it's really weird to me because nostalgia definitely like etches itself into your memory you know and we we admit that like i mean we're older gamers you know we we talk about games that like i said a lot of listeners have been like i've heard of that game but i've never played it i'm never gonna play it you know that kind of thing and i i don't know is the thing yeah you know because there are these sounds like the construct

additional pylons thing where it's not i wouldn't say it's like super widespread but it's one of those things where if you know you know yeah kind of thing and that sounds kind of like elitist in a way but it's funny because like i asked my kids i said hey what is like what do you think some of the most iconic game sounds are and they didn't have like a list of 15 like right off the top of their head the creeper was the one that they thought about right away but and that makes sense because i mean you know every kid in the world has played minecraft at this point um there's a roblox oof sound or something like that yeah i don't play a lot of roblox so it's like but they mentioned that like does fortnite have any like iconic sounds because

i feel like that would be something that a lot of younger people have played or you know the dance maybe like when you start the dance thing that little beat there's i don't know the thing is there's so much in fortnite now like well there's there's so many sounds that it's hard to probably pin one i don't know i'm sure a lot of fort Fortnite people will be like, oh, this one. But yeah, I can't think of any off the top of my head. It's really weird. And I don't know if maybe we just maybe it was repetition because we played these games like longer at a time. Like, you know, I don't mean like attention spans are necessarily shorter, but like older games, they were designed that you had to play them longer because you just, you know, you couldn't afford new games. We didn't have steam where, you know,

you had to actually go to the store if you wanted a new game kind of thing. And so I don't know if it's just that repetition that kind of like hones those into your memory or something, but this is a good question. And once again, I'm going to bring up, if you are a younger gamer, I would, we would love to know like, what are some iconic sounds from like your generation of games at this point absolutely you know i'm very curious because i feel like there's not as many recently as there were like in the past but i'm sure that people have some pretty good examples of things that we're not thinking of either so yeah definitely let us know yep all right what's next for you ryan was that me or was that you oh yeah that

was me because i just did pylons buddy that is true i guess i need some more pylons yeah get my brain brain in order uh i'm gonna go with a game that um man i guess another another older one but it's one that uh it's just one of those satisfying sounds that um whatever whatever reason it just the sound of it you almost just want to hear it more even if you're not needing to use it for that but i'm gonna go with the potion sound on diablo oh dude same with that's a good that is a good it's just dude yeah and it's just like like that that what it's that bubble sound yeah it's like that bubble sound it's you can't even mimic it doesn't it have like the little teeny glass clink glass clink i don't i can't remember

if there's any sort of oh no that's when you're moving it around in your inventory you can move stuff around yeah and then like it's it has this almost like flipping or wind sound when you drop stuff and just the sounds of that. You know, I can hear it in my brain. I just can't like vocalize it. Yeah, it's hard. It's one of those things, you know, you know what the sound is, you know, and you can envision it. But and it's just always there instantly when you when you think about it. So, yeah, I'm going to go with that.

The Diablo potion sound. That's a really that's like the back of my hand and I didn't even think about. So what a good pick, man. This is why I love this because it's like, yeah, there's so many. I'm like, oh yeah. All right. Listen, this to me, I think is the most iconic video game sound ever. I think there's anybody in the world can identify this. And I learned a fact about this today that is going to blow people's minds because in 40 plus years of gaming for me, I did not know this until today. So the sound is the Mario mushroom sound, the power up sound. Power up, baby. Everybody has heard this sound. Everybody in the world can identify this sound. I played it for my

kids. They've not played Mario and they're like, oh, that's the Mario sound. And I'm like, absolutely. Here is the mind blowing thing. There is the sound when you beat a level in mario the flagpole sound like when you get to the flagpole or in the older marios where you just got to the end of the level yeah definitely dude the mario mushroom sound so this sound is that song sped up like 20 times. It is the exact same song. It is the exact same sound. And I know everybody right now is going, what? No way. No.

No way. They're not the same. Dude, yes, they are. I looked it up today. There are videos out there that show the song note by note. And then they actually speed it up over and over until it is legitimately the exact same sound. What? That's what I was like, too.

And the only reason my mind's not blown right now is because Josh sent that to me earlier today. And I was like, same thing. No way. What are you talking about? And then I actually watched a dude play it on the piano. And I was like, oh, oh, it is the same. So it's the... Right, you're going to have to put in the end of level song here too just so that people can see

you know what i mean i don't know how i didn't know this my entire life i feel like has been a lie nintendo reusing and speeding up sounds to trick our brains and it's you're telling me this became one of the most iconic sounds ever and it's just a song that's been sped up a 20 times wait till we find out other ones that are like that oh my goodness dude our whole life is a lie i cannot believe Hopefully, if you're listening, your mind is as blown as mine was because this was something I had no idea even existed. I don't know how people figured this out either. So kudos to humans in general for seeing past Nintendo's lies and their laziness with reusing sounds and songs.

Now if we can only figure out why they uh secretly everybody that and additionally they uh intentionally make uh the stick drift on their joy cons oh yeah because it sells more if it ate ryan what do you say if it makes dollars it makes sense it makes dollars it 50 cents at that not me i know but it's i'm crediting it to you at this point. But I do say it often. Yeah. All right, Ryan. You got any others? Well, speaking of... I think I'm going to... We got a lot of honorable mentions,

but speaking of Mario, I'm going to stick with that trend and let me know what you guys think of this sound and what it means to you. The Mario Kart Star Sound. When you just go straight up invisible. Not invisible, invincible. And you just race as fast as you can and nothing can touch you.

Blast through everyone, knock everybody off the road um that's just one of those like instantly you're like uh-oh you know if they're behind you yeah invincible while you're listening to that song feels so good okay listen a lot of people are driving right now you're not invincible yeah okay the music might have played but let's be safe everybody stay in your lane follow the uh road rules of the road dude i don't know what it is about that and they use it you know in mario in mario kart like i mean it's it is one of those iconic things where it just you just feel good man you got that power up you're invincible you run as fast as you can go you don't know it's getting towards the end of the song.

It's going to be over soon. Let me hit this guy real quick before I run out. I'm back to normal again. I'm just me. Oh, man. All right. Let's get to a few of the honorable mentions, and then we'll wrap this up, Ryan. The Zelda Secret Discovery.

Yep. I have that on my list. that is a very iconic sound for me and then i have a few just phrases okay and so i'll do those the get over here yep scorpion from mortal combat finish him yep that was another really good. And then I can't not mention a street fighter, but it's another good one. Yep. Uh, and then Mario, I mean,

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I remember that. Said it real fast and hard another one too that um is a deep cut this is for pc was remember the uh old um 3d pinball that came with every windows oh the one that came in windows yeah the one that came in windows my goodness dude i'm gonna throw i'll throw that music in here and that boot up when you started it's like it doesn't like lasers and all this stuff and the second you you kick it on you're like oh my gosh yeah oh that was great because that was a fun game and it came with every copy of windows so it's like you automatically had a game that you could play everyone everyone that had like old school windows like you know 98 or xp or whatever we're always playing that oh yeah for sure oh sweet the pinball game man. All right. That does it for this episode.

I'm going to go listen to the halo theme song. Uh, and I'm going to blast it through my entire house cause I am amped up and I need to just hear this music. And then I'll probably follow that up with the golden eye song as well and dance like an idiot in front of my wife until she tells me to go away. Um, but we hope you enjoyed this episode.

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Oh, and we got to throw one more in because Paul will kill us if we don't. But the Gears of War, Hammer of Dawn. The Hammer of Dawn. Paul's like, this better be on the list. And I actually almost forgot. One more that Paul wanted to mention was the Mass Effect Reaper sound, which is very terrifying and quite good as well. So to give Paul his due there, those were two good mentions also.

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