Video Gamers Podcast - Most Iconic Video Game Sounds of All Time - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: June 13, 2025

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: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, Gaius and Phelps Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/  Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod  Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1 Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/  Follow us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videogamerspodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello fellow gamers, Ryan here. It's Flashback Friday. With over 500 episodes, we know most of you can't get to them all. So we go back in time and we pick some of our favorites for your listening pleasure. Hope you enjoy it. Hello, fellow gamers and welcome to this bonus round episode of the Video Gamers Podcast. 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 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR 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 murgler. That was 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 going to talk about in this episode. Ryan, I gotta say, man, I am pumped for this one.

Oh, me too, dude. This is gonna be fun. Anytime that we have to come up with like a list of stuff and within 20 seconds, I have like 15 different ideas. You know it's gonna be something that resonates with the listeners, something that gamers 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 forefront of our minds. I know my list. I came up with super fast. Oh, it was kind of fun to think of some like 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 a kind of a cool name, man. Like, I mean, 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 a lot of. Is that Fury? I feel like that's just their call. 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 gonna 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 gonna be diving into here pretty soon, right? 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 going to yell and scream, but I get kind of freaked out too, man. So I think this is going to be, that's just going to be a fun game. Jump scares. I love them and I know they're going to happen and it gets me every time and it's the anticipation more than anything like, Oh my gosh, what's going to 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 may 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. I guess we read them live to us on our recording. On the show. 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. Bring yourself food. Right. Another one. Is this going to become a voice? We're just going to, we have to act out everyone in ridiculous.

Hey, we always said we re-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 podcasts, 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.

They've been going, and Josh earlier, like with what he said about how excited he gets, he's not kidding. He was like immediately texting me all the, how big his list was. Oh, I got like 10 now. Oh no, 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. Ryan, why don't you lead us off, Ryan? Now, I think we said, I think what we, 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 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 gonna try to crown a number one, but no, 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 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. It's funny as Paul saw us chatting. Yeah. And then he jumped in with a few that he was like, Oh, you guys got to 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 going to 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? Oh, well,

to start off here, I am going to go with Waka Waka Waka Waka Waka Waka. Is that Pac-Man? OG Pac-Man. That's just the Waka Waka Pacman Pacman? That's on my list as well. Is it on your list as well? Absolutely. I mean, OK, I know there's people out there right now that are saying I have never played a Pacman game in my life. This is way too old for me and my gaming takes and stuff like that. But, dude, the Pacman 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 my kids

are like, yeah, that's Pac-Man. He's never played Pac-Man. They don't know. You can hear it from across the room. You hear it. You know, and you're like, oh, that's, that's Pac-Man. Somebody's playing Pac-Man. Yeah. Yeah. It is so identifiable. Now, how do you spell that sound Ryan? Uh, I did W a K K a walk. It is exactly how I spell it. No way. Right. Yeah. On my list.

I it's spelled Waka Waka. Waka. That's how I did. Oh man. That's 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 always bum a couple of quarters off my mom to play it. So yeah, 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 iconic sounds 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 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. You know, 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'll get in trouble. Don't forget it either. It's a dreaded sound. I'm not sure that sound ever comes with like happiness, does it? No, I don't think so.

Oh, all right. What's up next on your list, Ryan? So I'm going to go with another older one, not crazy old, but something that's a little more personal, but everybody knows this sound. It's become a TikTok sound, unfortunately, but fortunately, I guess. And it's... The Metal Gear Solid Alert sound, baby. 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 it because it's like an alert, right? It's the 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. So 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. Or you see like those cause players at the different conventions and stuff and they'll be snake or somebody

and they have the red exclamation mark above their head you know it'll be the the soldiers and they'll have it I mean and you know you hear it when you see it you know you'd 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 the 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. We're going to have a sample right here, but dude, I was, I was actually clipping this earlier and I was listening to this and I get chill bumps, dude. Every single time I hear this freaking song, man. I don't know what it is. Yeah, no, it's cause it's got that, 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 da da da da. You can sing it. That's the thing. I'm ready. I'm ready to go baby. And you know, everybody, whether they can sing Lurk Worth a Lick in their bathroom or in a hallway or something that echoes, Dun 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 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, 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 do wanna, I wanna address something real quick. You said you got chill bumps. Yeah. You mean goosebumps? Goosebumps? You never heard it called chill bumps? That's like the, what are the Brits call it?

Goose pimples? It might be a southern thing, I'll be honest. Cause like, 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. Right? Like, cause people say, Oh, I got chills. Look at my arm. Right. It makes sense. Yeah. No, it does. It's just, I use those things where you never hear them a different way very often. Is this going to be the new thing, Ryan? I'm going to post a picture and I'm going to say everybody's listening.

Yeah. Goosebumps or chill bumps. Let's hear it. And then everybody's going to be like, Whoa, chill bumps 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 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 in a game than this. Freaking clickers, dude. And the last of us.

I was going to 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, zombies kind of have their moan and the rrrr and stuff. But the clicker sound is so guttural. Yeah.

Or something like it comes from a place that 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. 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 gotta get away. I, oh, all right, you know what, Ryan? Since we're doing this, I'm gonna 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. I don't, this one's kind of borderline.

I guess it's a song cause it plays for a little bit longer. Yeah. But I mean, listen, you, you just heard the sound. Everybody listening just heard the sound. Tell me you don't feel more anxious right now. Yeah, that's 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 in poor, poor Sonic too, because you see him just go and then his arms go up and he just drowns and you're like, oh, six 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. Let's go with one, ooh, this would be a good one to finish before the break. I would say it's a very good bet that most people are gonna know this sound as well

because it's one of those just iconic that transcended like just video games because it was one of those just iconic that transcended like just video games because it was having to do with sports. And so it's going to be a sport 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. You imagine making just mountains of money.

And that's what you do. You just do that audio track like that. I listen. We don't promote EA very much around these parts, but that was one of the catchiest things that they've ever come up with, dude. Oh, yeah. I mean, you intentionally like make sure the sounds 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 hay day 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 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 like perfect. Yeah. You know, just bam. You like you were ready after that. Yeah. All right, listen, we're going to take a quick break and then, man, I've still got like eight, nine more to talk about.

So we'll see how this goes, but we'll be back in just a second. 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 baby. Oh, and it's, it's so good. It's just so good. I, I can watch the full video of these guys doing the whole like raid prep and the 33% repeating of course, in this whole spiel that they do. I love the guy, just Leroy Jenkins coming back and just charging in. I know it was all staged, you know, 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, I can't remember where we were, and somebody had a Leroy Jenkins bumper sticker. No way. 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.

Oh, that's awesome. 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. 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! And you just run off. How many times when we were playing Helldivers and we were about to like attack like a big bug nest, one of us just scream it and run over the hill.

Yeah, it's just one of those that you can use whenever. So it's almost like a catchphrase thing now that you can use just to be a goofball. That's a good one. I love that one. 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. And I totally spaced that one. So, you know, I didn't even come to mind.

I 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. It, 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,

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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 going to pick somebody else. Yeah. So listen or else. All right. Who's that? Ryan? I think it's me. Yeah. Cause you just did. You just did Leroy. So I'm going to stick on the wild trend and All right, who's up, Ryan? Is it me? Is it you? I think it's me. Yeah, yeah, because you just did-

We're going with you. You just did Leroy. So I'm gonna 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 like the, 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, cause I know you didn't play a lot of WoW or anything, right? I, 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 It was just one of those where it was just so annoying when you're out looking for stuff or farming you just and they had Like a big window or a big range

Where they you could pull agro on them and they've 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 They're probably doing it right now. I was gonna say I know we hear you Yeah, I know I've done it a few times to try to just you know See if I can't nail it because it sounds like it'd be easy. Yeah, and then it ain't easy. It ain't easy It sounds like it'd be easy. Yeah. And then it ain't easy.

It ain't easy. 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 you hear this, it's like you're scared, but then you're just 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, you know, and it's like, Oh, I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to, I'm not going to die. I got my shields back baby. Charge. Yeah. And then, yeah, exactly. Then you just pop back out. Chuck a nade. 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, and you didn't die in that interaction until, you know,

then you get stuck with like a sticky n or something right after that and get killed anyway. And then you know death is coming. Yeah. No matter what. Yeah. That's a good one. That's one of those where just everyone hears it and it does. It just fills you with like warm and fuzzies. Yep. All right. What you got, Ryan? Let's go with one that, 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. Redo what we please, boy. God of War Kratos yelling boy. Boy. 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 right here I think to 17 but anyways 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? He'd like just make a grunt noise and I just yelled boy to him. And he's, he's a pasty little ginger, like a traist was. So it was perfect. Did the, I, I will, I wish I had the voice to like actually say that the right way. You were sick last week. But you, dude, you shared a clip where it was Kratos 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 you guys said it. He said it. A couple other of my friends said it. It was a, yeah, I still got a little bit of the rasp to me, but yeah, when I get yeah, I know you guys said it. He said it. A couple other of my friends said it. It was a yeah, I still got a little bit of the rasps to me, but yeah, when I get sick, my voice just gets so dang deep. All right. I got a Ryan this one. We're just going to we're going to jam for a second. We're going to have to let this one play for a few seconds.

OK, OK. 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, you know, 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, man. I freaking love this song.

Look, OK, 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 Goldeneye 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, they're just kind of banging their head a little bit and it's balling 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 dust, uh, beat. That's like a bouncy beat.

And so you're just like, if the halo music gets me amped, the golden eye pause music makes me just want to dance, dude. Yeah. I mean, like 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. So good. You know, people in the, in the car or on their phones, wherever they're listening right now, when that played, they're like their head probably

Back 15 seconds back 15 seconds That again just loop it loop it oh Man I freaking dude between halo and that I cannot I just it's like gaming paradise, man. Yeah Absolutely. All right for you buddy. So it's for me You did that there so I'm gonna go with one that uh, very very big franchise and another one of those sounds that gives you the warm and fuzzies cause you know you're probably doing a good job, you're getting close. But I'm going with the modern warfare call of duty whatever ones you want to do with the hitmarker sound did what a satisfying. Like when you know you're lighting that dude up 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, 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, there were 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.

Big time. And then, and then I forget which ones, but when you get the headshot and it's the tink. Yo, yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Overwatch is very good with that. Where the headshot sound that just like, Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Overwatch is very good with that. Where the headshots sound that tink, tink, tink. 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 up. This is on my list. Construct additional pylons, buddy.

I was a Protoss guy. 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 liked both. I was better with the Zerg than I was with the Protoss. But so in my mind, it's the spot more overlords, you know, but I do think that the

construct additional pylons is the more iconic one. Um, but yeah, dude, so many, there's so many, like that whole thing, like with even Warcraft jobs done. Yeah. You know, like, so many, there's so many, like that whole thing, like with even Warcraft, job's 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 going to play it, you know, that kind of thing. And I, I don't know is the thing, 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. There's a Roblox oof sound or something like that. But 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 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 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, 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 they 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, 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. Yeah. All right. What's next for you, Ryan? Was that me or was that you? Oh yeah, that was me. No, that was me, because I just did pylons, buddy. That is true. I guess I need some more pylons.

Get my brain in order. I'm gonna go with a game that, man, I guess another older one, but it's one that, it's just one of those satisfying sounds that, whatever, for 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 good that is a good it's just, 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 glass. 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, moving here to 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, you know, 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 one that I know like the back of my hand.

And I didn't even think about. So what a good pick. Yeah, this is why I love this, because it's like this is so when 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 flag pole sound, like when you get to the flag pole or in the older Mario's 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 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. 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 to, and the only reason mine, mine's not blown right now is cause Josh sent that to me earlier today. And I was like, same thing. No way. What, 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 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 did you telling me this became one of the most iconic sounds ever and it's just a song that's been sped up 20 times wait till we find out other ones that are like that. Oh my goodness, dude. Oh life is a lie

I cannot believe this 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 like kudos to humans in general for seeing past Nintendo's lies, you know, and their laziness with reusing sounds and songs. Now if we can only figure out why they secretly. Want to sue everybody? Want to, that and additionally they intentionally make the stick drift on their Joy-Cons.

Oh yeah, because it sells more. Hey Ryan, what do you say? If it makes dollars it makes sense? If it makes dollars, 50 Cent said that, not me. I know, but I'm crediting it to you at this point. But I do say it often. Yeah. All right Ryan Uh, you got any others? Well speaking of I think I'm gonna we got a lot of honorable mentions, but speaking of you honor

Mario I'm gonna 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. Or 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, Oh, you know, if they're behind you, yeah.

Invincible while you're listening to that song. It feels so good. Okay, listen, a lot of people are driving right now. You're not invincible. Okay. The music might've played, but let's be safe. Everybody stay in your lane. Follow the, uh, let the road rules of the road.

Dude, I don't know what it is about that. And they use it in Mario, in Mario Kart. I mean, it is one of those iconic things where 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 gonna be over soon.

Let me get this guy real quick before I run out. Oh, 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. Yes. The Zelda secret discovery. Yep.

I have that on mine. 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 for Mortal Kombat.

Finish him. Yep. That was another really good one. And then I can't not mention a street fighter, but, Hadoken! It's another good one. Yep. That was another really good one. And then I can't not mention a street fighter, but another good one. Yep. And then Mario, I mean, you know, we have to give credit where credit is due, but the Mario triple jump, the,

yep. Yeah. Is a, that's another one that I think is a coin sound. A lot of people coins, a big one with Mario, the coin. Yep. Yeah. Is that's another one that I think is the coin sound. A lot of coins, a big one with Mario, the coin. Yep. As far as like systems to like for older gamers, like kicking on your Sega. Oh, dude.

Sega. And you see that big white screen. Are the then they tried to get all edgy with it and they're like, yeah. I remember that. I said it real fast and hard. Shut up! Shut up! Another one too that is a deep cut,

and this is for PC, was remember the old 3D pinball that came with every Windows computer? Oh, the one that came in Windows? Yeah, the one that came in Windows. Oh my goodness, dude. Dude, I'm gonna. Oh, the one that came in Windows. Yeah, the one that came in Windows. My good dude. I'm going to 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 can 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. Sweet. The pinball game. So, oh man. All right. That does it for this episode. I'm going to go listen to the halo theme song,

and I'm going to blast it through my entire house because I am amped up and I need to just hear this music. And then I'll probably follow that up with the GoldenEye song as well and dance like an idiot in front of my wife until she tells me to go away. But we hope you enjoyed this episode. It's always fun to talk about some of these things that every gamer kind of knows. We know that we missed a lot that mean a lot to a lot of people. So once again, come tell us about it.

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the gears of war hammer of Dawn, the hammer of Dawn's like this better be on the list and 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, uh, those were two good mentions also. All right. Well that does it for this episode. Thank you everybody for tuning in. We will be back in a few days with another episode because, Hey, we release two episodes every single week because that's what we do, Ryan. We're here for the people. We're men of the people.

Yes, we absolutely are. But until next time, happy gaming! See ya!