What's your favorite videogame sound effect?

[jeremysart]

The sound of entering a level in SMB 3 on NES

[retrorussell]

The sound of Sonic getting an extra life. Very satisfactory!

The sound of safely depositing a fallen humanoid on Defender.

The goofy sounds on Earthworm Jim.. like when you pick up bubbles (shwup!), when Jim utters his goofy sayings ("Ho, Nellie!" or "Yippee!" or "Ohhh yeah..", or "GROOVY!", etc.), the SQUAWK!!! Psy-Crow makes when you ram into him in the asteroid race, and the "bwoik!" sound you make when you get hurt.

[jeremysart]

Baby Mario's crying in Yoshi's Island.

 

Haha, my mom hated when I played that game back in the day.

Man, that seems like yesterday, I remember the commercials for that game.

[carmel_andrews]

Game Over....Insert Coin (from Gorf)

[Frizo]

Intro of a Boss of the Mega Man series!

Also, the winning noise when you beat a boss.

[retrorussell]

I liked the cheering crowd on the Intellivision. Very impressive for its time.

[smartkitten26]

The sound when mario jumps

[tremoloman2006]

Mine is from the Williams pinball game Black Knight. When you light the ramp on the top left and shoot the ball up the ramp, the spinner makes a killer sound. I think all Williams pinballs have killer sound effects and still sound modern today.

 

For video games though, Sinistar still scares the shit out of me when it yells RRRRROOOOAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!

[lushgirl_80]

I may have said this already but from Gauntlet 2 when you use the teleporters..sounds like something out of Star Trek .

 

 

I also love the 1UP sound effect from Sonic.

 

I actually like the sound Pitfall Harry makes when he dies in Super Pitfall(NES)..sounds like they lifted that off an Atari game.

[retrorussell]

I hated Prince of Persia for Sega CD, but I did like the yell your character made as he fell to his death (just before falling on spikes, yummy!).

The sound on Art Of Fighting when you screw up the bonus stage. The ultimate "Durrh?" sound.

[Ninjabba]

the robot voices in berzerk were used by aphex twin on his album druqs.. first track of the 2nd cd. I was really surprised to hear that years ago

[telengard]

The coin inserted sound of Defender is probably my favorite sound effect (it may have been used on other Williams games/pinballs too).

 

Other favorites:

 

Frogger coin inserted

Marble Madness (and other similar era Atari games) coin inserted

Magna Save on Black Knight 2000

Robotron between stage sounds

 

~telengard

Edited August 26, 2009 by telengard

[+selgus]

If theme songs count, then my favorite is BallBlazer on the 8-bit computers. It is so catchy, that to this day, I find myself humming it at times.

--Selgus

[Herbarius]

If theme songs count, then my favorite is BallBlazer on the 8-bit computers. It is so catchy, that to this day, I find myself humming it at times.

I just looked it up on Youtube, at first I thought "yeah, nothing special at all", but now, several minutes later, I can see your point: It's hopelessly stuck in my head

 

 

bee ba boo boo... bee ba boo boo.. bee ba boo boo... ...DUH DUH DUH DUH!!

[carmel_andrews]

Stay a while, Stay forever...apparently from some famous commodoorstop 64 game by epyx

[VectorGamer]

If theme songs count, then my favorite is BallBlazer on the 8-bit computers. It is so catchy, that to this day, I find myself humming it at times.

--Selgus

 

How about Frenzy? At least on the ColecoVision the jingles throughout the game are hilarious in contrast to what is supposed to be an ominous game play. It's one of those rare deals where sound can add fun to game play.

[Vic George 2K3]

The electronic fart in 2600 Space Invaders when your laser base gets hit by a bomb.

[Foxy Cleopatra]

the pepper shaker in Burgertime - Intellivision

"Rocket Launcher!" in Metal Slug (German accent)

 

oh, and the beeps in Asteroids that get faster and faster

Edited August 29, 2009 by Foxy Cleopatra

[Tr3vor]

Baby Mario's crying in Yoshi's Island.

 

Haha, my mom hated when I played that game back in the day.

Man, that seems like yesterday, I remember the commercials for that game.

 

 

yeah i play that with the sound up to listen to the music, and when i make a slip up it crys really loud.

i often end up telling the tv to shut the hell up.

[Rev. Rob]

Collecting a ring in Sonic.

[VectorGamer]

Here's one I've fallen in love with recently - it's the sound when I put Pressure Cooker in my 7800, turn it on and there's a bunch of vertical bars on the screen in pink, yellow, black etc...

[JamesD]

Pretty much any of the Williams sounds.

"Beware, I Live!"

Any of the Wizard of Wor speech... ta ta ta

The relentless Space Invaders beat of the marching invaders.

The awesome soundtrack for Reactor... the rest of its sounds weren't bad either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKzx1mBV2PU&feature=related

And music to Bubble Bobble.

Edited October 29, 2009 by JamesD

[mattyg]

The death sound in Pac Man arcade.

The sound after jumpman jumps a barrel in Donkey Kong.

The high score sound on Battlezone.

 

 

ditto on Pac Man - just hearing the sound of dying in that game takes me back in time.

 

who needs a de Lorean and a lightning strike with memories like that !

[SpicyChronos]

I really enjoy the sound of inserting a coin in any of the atari games, like gauntlet, peter pack rat, road blasters, that oh so, familiar bell dong. ah...