25 Old NES Games With Impressive Digitized Speech
538Nowadays, hearing speech in video games is nothing special. However, there once was a time when voice samples in games were few and far between. At the dawn of gaming, the memory available for a game was rather scarce, and since digitized speech took up quite a bit of space, it was used sparingly.
That made the moments when digitized voices suddenly erupted out of our lowly 8-bit Nintendo NES all the more memorable. Unlike the modern consoles which can directly use recorded voice, the 8 bit systems had to implement the sound from scratch. That is using frequencies. Certain games had added chips that allowed them to play some basic recorded sound. But still, for an 8bit machine, even if it is a bit scratchy and unclear, I think it's still a remarkable achievement.
For this video we go through the great catalog of the Nintendo Entertainment System in search of those old video games that made the most impressive use of digitized voice techniques. I'm sure you remember some of them perfectly... and maybe others you don't know at all. Let's sharpen our ears!
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Games Featured
0:00 Intro
0:20 1987 Double Dribble
0:51 1987 Dance Aerobics
1:24 1988 Wheel of Fortune
1:58 1988 Gradius II
2:38 1988 Track & Field II
3:09 1988 Blades of Steel
3:40 1989 The Three Stooges
4:14 1989 Impossible Mission II
4:48 1989 Bad Dudes
5:20 1989 Gauntlet II
5:52 1990 Big Bird's Hide and Speak
6:23 1990 S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team
6:54 1990 Dirty Harry
7:27 1990 Pin-Bot
8:03 1990 Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble
8:45 1991 High Speed
9:21 1991 Tecmo Super Bowl
10:03 1991 The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants
10:39 1991 Galaxy 5000
11:11 1991 Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge
11:42 1991 Super Jeopardy!
12:13 1992 Sesame Street Countdown
12:44 1992 Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
13:18 1993 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
14:11 Outro
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