Classic Arcade sounds

[DanP]

Stumbled across this today. It's from the US but defo brings back some great memories of what arcades sounded like back in the day. Strangely hypnotic after a while...

http://www.coinopvideogames.com/sounds.php

Dan

 

[strykr]

Nice, I have these as my background music on my Mala FE

http://arcade.hofle.com/

 

[AeroCityMayor]

I use the hofle set in my front end too.

 

[DanP]

Yeah I like the hofle recordings (I have them available as a background soundtrack in my gameroom), but they are constructed using MAME. The ones I linked to were actually recorded (on a cassette!) in the 80's in a real arcade by kids actually playing the game. I thought hearing them was kinda cool.

 

[Alpha1]

Back in the days of playing sounds on IRC in our #ukvac and also #arcade channels we had loads of sounds like this.

 

[guddler]

I love those recordings, they're great - but I wish you didn't have the kid that was doing them talking on there as well. The rest is really cool.

 

[guddler]

Actually, that's interesting just from the point of view of browsing through the titles!! I just spotted one that after all these years I've never heard of: "Marvin's Maze". It really is a rarity these days to discover a new game that you hadn't even heard of. Well, until you get past the early 80's anyway, I stopped paying attention by about 1986/7

 

[DanP]

Must admit I found the talking (well the conversation bits) part of the charm. Definatley reminded me of countless hours spent in arcades with my mates as a kid. We were always talking through games, offering tips, etc during them.