1988, Game of the Year

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

VAMatt said:

"Rise from your grave" were the first truly audible words I ever heard from a video game. So it's got to be Altered Beast.

The first game I heard speech was Le Manoir de Mortevielle (Mortville Manor in English), which uses synthesised speech - the first game to do so btw.

There were games that had synthesized speed in the early 80's, but I would make fun of how bad they were like Pole Position's "Prepare to qualify."  The first good synthesized speech I heard was in Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2, but even then it was funny that the voice was such a tattletale.

"Yellow Wizard shot the food."
"Dammit Wizard!  I needed that food!"