Join Michael Winslow — the noise-making star from Police Academy — on a cursory run through The History of video game SFX. Indeed the video is far from exhaustive, going from the blips of Pong (1972) to those of Portal (2007) without much in between: just a few other arcade legends and shooters. All sounds like a bunch of noise to me, but it’s still a lot of fun!
For more from the Man of 10,000 Sound Effects, check him out making sounds for Wizard Ops, the recently released iOS game.
Bob
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 2:14 PMWow, that was really bad.
Scott
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 3:25 PMThat wasn’t so great because he clearly didn’t know much about the games he was imitating.
DrBoon
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 3:27 PMYeah… that was a bit sh!t
JK
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 4:02 PMI…..kinda enjoyed that.
yes it wasn’t amazing but it was good for some chuckles.
looks like im the minority here.
Digtrio
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 4:10 PMI dunno, I enjoyed it. Not sure why he needs to have intimate knowledge of the games to be able to mimic sound effects but whatever. Still, his explanation of Halo was a tad odd. :P
Femto
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 4:49 PMHe’s getting old….
Darren
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 5:47 PM“Are you dead?”
“…Yes!”
Love it. Still a laugh.
Chazz
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 7:24 PMDoes the G4TV embedded player not work for anyone else?
Either way, I hope that’s the first and last time I see Michael Winslow actually fail at the sounds he’s trying to make.
Wolvieboy
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 9:47 PM“Halo was the first…. real… reality… thing… with reality…. uh…. where’s my paycheck?”
Lachlan
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 10:43 PMThat was actually really bad lol. Pong was good, but it all went downhill from there.
Virtual…reality? It wasn’t even the first fps! Goldeneye was one of the first uber successful ones, a whole generation earlier! And then there was Doom before that!
N3RD1001101
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 2:35 PMlol you totally missed quake 1 & 2!!! Both uber-successful, pre goldeneye fps’, even birthing the first annual event focused on specific game/developer… QuakeCon.
N0NEoftheAB0VE
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 8:17 PMC’mon Quake was what – 6 months before Goldeneye – maybe a year at most!