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

Episode Date: April 10, 2026

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, Jigglepuf, Phelps and NorwegianGreaser, Dettmarp and Night Wizard63   Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, PeopleWonder, Bobby S.   Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/videogamerspod⁠ Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/h2cHKAvSmu 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/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Many promotions are available both in-store and online, though some may vary. Hello, fellow gamers. 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 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 mergel.

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, I am pumped for this one. Oh, me too, dude. This is going to be fun. Any time 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 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 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 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 lot of. Is that Fury? I feel like that's like just. Fists of Fury. Yeah, fist of Fury. I guess. 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 you 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 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 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 leave a review for us. And then what do we do with that usually? I think, I think we read them live. We read live to us. We read them live. We read them live to us on on our recording. It's going to 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

Mr. Marv 77. 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 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 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 to 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 this sounds, man. 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, 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 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 we said, 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, um, yeah, it's not like these aren't going to 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 going to be so many that we didn't even remember. Like, yeah, it's, it's, it's, they'll be there. It's funny is 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 it a Pac-Man? G Pac-Man. Oh, dude, 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 my kids are like, yeah, that's Pac-Man. They've never played Pac-Man. Exactly.

You can hear it from across the room. You say, 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? I did W-A-K-K-A.

That's exactly how I spelled it. No way, right? On my list, it's spelled Waka-Waka-Waka. That's how I did. 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, growing up, I had a 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, 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 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 that sound was and then I'll get in trouble don't forget it either it's a dreaded sound get our base blown up 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. 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.

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's 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 you can post just 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 cosplayers 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, or they'll be the, the soldiers and they'll have it, I mean. And, uh, 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, 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 mean, 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. The 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, 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. Like, I don't know what it is. Yeah. No, it's because 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 do-da-da-da. And you're like, oh, I'm ready. 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 do want to, I want to address something real quick. You said you got, uh, chill bumps. Yeah. You mean goose bumps? You never heard it. You never heard it call chill bumps. That's like the one of the Brits called it. It might be a southern thing. I'll be honest. I, because like, listen, I grew up in Pennsylvania, a 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. Chill bumps. Yeah. Like, because people say, oh, I got chills. Look at my arm. Right. It makes sense.

Yeah. No, it does. It 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 what do you call these things. Yeah. Goose bumps 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 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, it's... I was going to try to do the voice, and I feel like it just means. 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 the 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. Like, oh, I don't like it. And that is,

the sonic drowning music. Oh, man. There is nothing more anxiety-inducing 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. 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. 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, 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, micks 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 lore. 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 going to know this sound as well, because it's 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 EA sports. It's in the game. E.A. Sports, it's in the game. 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, 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. When 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 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 like perfect. Yeah. You know, short, sweet, just bam, 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 it. So we'll see how this goes. But we'll be back in just a second. Okay. When I sell my business, I want the best tax and investment advice. I want to help my kids. And I want to give back to the community. Ooh, then it's the vacation of a lifetime.

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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 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 stage 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 like 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. 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. 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 agros too early or any of that. It was just it was the perfect just set up and the perfect sound when that happened. And it took the world by store, man. And it's one of those two that I don't know about anyone else, but I'll still, you know, we're waiting to go in and we're going to rush somewhere. We're going to do something. You're just like, forget this. And you're just going to go in. Leroy Jenkins. And you just run off. How many times when we were playing hell divers and we were about to like attack like a big bug nest? You just run there and early. 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 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. Everybody is awesome. There is no toxicity whatsoever. but one of the things that we'd love about it is people love to chat video games or the topics from the episodes or something like that. So if you were not in our Discord server, stop. Look at the 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.

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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 to do. You just did Leroy. So I'm going to stick on the wild trend and it goes with your intro. And it's the beautiful Merlock 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'd just hear them

and I'm like, it was more of annoyance, you know, because I don't know, you didn't play a lot of wow or anything, right? I know of the Merlocks. I remember when I was blitzing through Wow, when you could level to like 80 within like two days or whatever. I remember the Merlock area, but this was basically just me slaughtering thousands of Merlocks because it was so simplified at that point. I will say, I know this sound very, very well from my time with Harthstone. Because anytime you played a Merlock in Harstown, 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. And they had like a big window or a big range where you could pull agro on them and they've just come charging. And you're like, dang it. And then they'd pull a few more. You have to go fight four or five stupid Murlocks and then go back to what you were doing. And you know everybody has tried to do the Merlock sound at some point. They're probably doing it right now.

I was going to 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. 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 this is such a glorious sound when this when you hear this it's like you're scared but then you're just you're covered in warmth and security and that sound is the halo recharge sound when that shield comes back back in the game you get past that warning beep you know and it's like oh i'm going to die i'm going to die i'm not going to die i got shields back maybe. Charge! Yeah, and then you, yeah, exactly.

Then you just pop back out, chucking aides. That's when you go and you're 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

Nate or something right after that and get killed anyway. And then you know death is coming, no matter what. Yeah. That's a good one. That's one of those where just everyone hears it. And it does. It just feels 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. This way, boy. Slow down, boy. Redo what we please, boy. God of war, Cratos yelling boy, 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, huh. He'd like just make a grunt noise and I'd just yell, boy to him. And he's a pasty little ginger.

like Atreus was, so it was perfect. Dude, I wish I had the voice to, like, actually say that the right way. You were sick last week. Oh, yeah. 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. Yeah, I know. It really is me. You guys said it. A couple other of my friends said it. It was, 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 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. Okay, okay. 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, 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.

I mean, the fact that we rave about Golden Eye back in the day, 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 and 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 kind of banging their head a little bit and it's bombing.

Oh, yeah, nobody saw us, but 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 beat that's like a bouncy beat. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. 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. It's so good. You know people in the car or on their phones, wherever they're listening. right now when that played they're like their head probably

skip back 15 seconds skip back 15 seconds let me just listen to that again just loop it loop it oh man I freak it dude between Halo and that I cannot I just it's like gaming paradise man yeah absolutely what's up next for you buddy so it's for me

you did that there so I'm gonna 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 the modern warfare call of duty whatever ones you want to do with the hit marker sound dude dude like when you know you're lighten that dude up and then you hear the and then you hear the plates crack yeah you know like oh he's cracked he's cracked he's cracked push push oh 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 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 tit-to-to-do-d-d-d-d-you-know.

So, yeah, that's one of those ones big time. And then 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. Oh, nice. The head shots sound that tink, 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 going to be out. This is on my list. Pylons, buddy. I was a Protas guy. Are you a protas guy?

I was a protas guy. Now, I was also a Zerg guy. I was going to 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 Protas. 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. We require more vespian 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. into play and stuff. Do you think that there was just video games as a whole with where they were at and 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 admit that. 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 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. 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. Yeah, 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 the thing is there's so much in fortnight 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 fortnight 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 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 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. 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. Get my brain in order.

I'm going to go with a game that, man, I guess another, another older one, but it's one that it's just one of those satisfying sounds that, 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 going to 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. It's that bubble sound. Yeah, it's like that bubble sound. It 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 clink. 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 things in it. I can hear it in my brain. I just can't like vocalize it. Yeah, it's hard. It's one of those.

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 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, man. This is why I love this because it's like, yeah.

There's so many. And 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 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 sound.

And I know everybody right now is going, What? No way. 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 mine, mine's not blown right now. 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 lot. Nintendo reusing and speeding up sounds to trick our brains. And it's 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. Our whole 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? That and additionally, they intentionally make the stick drift on their joycons. Oh, yeah, because it sells more. Hey, Ryan, what do you say? If it makes dollars, it makes dollars. 50 cents at 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, you got any others? Well, speaking of, I think I'm going to, we got a lot of honorable mentions, but speaking of, um, 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 and, 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. That's just one of those like instantly, you're like, oh-oh, you know, if they're behind you.

You feel 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. Yeah. Okay. The music might have played, but let's be safe, everybody. Stay in your lane.

Follow the 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 icons. 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 get this guy real quick before I run out. Oh, I'm back to normal again. I'm just me. Oh, man.

All right. Let's get to a few of the honor roll mentions and then we'll wrap this up, Ryan. The Zelda secret discovery. Yep, I had that. 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 hodokin.

It's 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 hoo, wah-hoo! Woo-hoo! Yep.

Yeah, is, that's another one that I think is definitely for a lot of people. Coins a big one with Mario. The coin, yep. As far as like systems too,

like for older gamers, like kicking on your Sega. Oh, dude. Sega! And you see that big white screen? Or then they tried to get all edgy with it and they were like, SIGO!

Yeah. I remember that. Said it real fast and hard. SIGO! S Sinha! Another one, too, that is a deep cut. 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. I'm going to throw, I'll throw that music in here. And that boot up, when you started, it's like, it does it 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 Golden Eye song as well and dance like an idiot in front of my wife and tells 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've missed a lot that mean a lot to a lot of people.

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and quite good as well. So to give Paul his due there, 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. for the people. We're men of the people. Yes, we absolutely are. But until next time, happy gaming.

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