Video Gamers Podcast - Most Iconic Video Game Sounds - [Remastered] - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: December 29, 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 times. Oh, yeah. 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 gonna be fun I 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 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 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 Fis of Fury. Yeah, fist 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 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. The 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 MultiplayerSquad.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 we read them live.

We read them live to us, I guess. We read them live to us 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 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 lot to cover on this episode and I cannot wait to start talking about this 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 uh 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 right 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 gonna 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 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, 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 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 about these 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, Waka. Is it Pac-Man?

Oh, G, Pac-Man. Oh, dude, that's on my list is. 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 yeah 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 yeah 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-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-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 didn't like. Oh, man. That's good. dude i remember playing pacman 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 pacman machine there and

always bum a couple quarters off my mom to play it so yeah i definitely had my fair share of time in on pacman 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 i 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 my. 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? Yeah, 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 too.

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. 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 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. 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. It's 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, 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 ever 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 called chill bumps? That's like the, one of the Brits calls, goose pimples. I'll be honest.

I, because, like, listen, I grew up in Pennsylvania up north, and we called him goosebumps. Okay. And then I moved to Louisiana when I was. 15 and live there for over a decade and they call them chill bumps down there because it gives you chills yeah 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 going to be the new thing ryan i'm going to post a picture and i'm going to say everybody listen

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 good i'm not a good 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 a 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'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 the and stuff but the clicker sound is so like gutteral 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 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 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 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. 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 arms go up and he just drowns and you're like oh minks 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 sound uh 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 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 it's 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 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 all right ryan i'm gonna you know what 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 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. 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 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 was 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 going to rush somewhere we're going to do something and you're just like forget this and you're just going to go in Leroy Jenkins and you just run off when we were playing hell divers and we were about to like attack like a big bug nest you just run down early 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 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 um and i totally spaced that one so you know i didn't come to mind i app 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'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 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, 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've 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 up, Ryan? Is it me? Is it you? I think it's me. Yeah, yeah, because you just did. 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 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 any time 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'd have to go fight four or five stupid Murlocks and then go back to what you were doing. 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 such a glorious sound. 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, and 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'm not going to die. I got a shields back baby charge yeah and then yeah exactly then you just pop back out chucking 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 Nate or something right after that and oh and then you know death is coming no matter what yeah that's a good one that's 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. Boy. This way, boy. Slow down, boy. We do 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 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. when i yeah i know really is me you guys said it he said it a couple other my friends said it it was uh yeah it's 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 gonna we're gonna

jam for a second we're gonna 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. Dude, I mean, the fact that we rave about Golden Eye back in the day, but we, 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. And you look over and everybody's doing exactly what we're doing where they're just like, they just kind of bang in their head a little bit and it's bobbing. 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

a 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 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.

All right. What's that next for you, buddy? So it's for me. You did that there. So I'm going to go with one that, uh, 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 what a satisfying sound 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 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 the fidget spinners and clicking, like, switches and stuff. 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, 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. Head shots down 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 going to be up. 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 liked both. I was better with the Zerg than I was with the Protas. But so in my mind, it's the Spotmore Overlords, you know, but I do think that the construct additional pylons. is the more iconic one. We require more vespine gas. Yeah, dude, so many, there's so many, like, that whole thing, like, with even Warcraft, jobs done.

Yeah. You know, like, just, there's 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 playing 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 admit that. Like I mean, we're older gamers. You know, 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, 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, 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 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, 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 uh that's a good that is a good it's just dude yeah and it's just like bloop 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, uh, just the sounds of that, you know, moving things in my brain. I just can't like vocalize it. Yeah, it's hard. It's one of those that you know, you know what the sound is. You know, and you can envision it.

but um and it's just always there instantly when you know 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 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. 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. 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 to. And the only reason mine, mine'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 live.

Nintendo reusing and speeding up sounds to trick our brains? And you're 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 sense? If it makes dollars, 50 cents 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, 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. And 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, uh-oh, you know, if they're behind you. You feel 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. All of 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 cart.

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. And 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 honorable mentions, and then we'll wrap this up, Ryan. The Zelda Secret Discovery. Yep, I have that.

That is a very iconic sound for me. And then I have a few just phrases. Okay. And so I'll do those. 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. And then Mario, I mean, you know, we have to give credit where credit

is due, but the Mario triple jump, the, wha-whu-hoo! Yep. Yeah, is, that's another one that I think is definitely up 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

Sega! Yeah I remember that said it real fast and hard Sega Sega! 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. I'm going to throw, I'll throw that music in here. And that boot up, when you started, it's like, it does 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 gonna go listen to the halo theme song uh and i'm gonna 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 eyes 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. It's always fun to talk about some of these things that every gamer kind of knows.

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the show and if you also enjoyed this remember to leave us a five-star review because that helps us out as well oh oh we got to throw one more in because paul will kill us if we don't but the gears of war hammer a don't the hammer of dawn paul'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 do there those were two good mentions also. All right, well, that does it for this episode. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in.

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