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archbrix on 22 September 2023
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The_Liquid_Laser said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

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!"

Yeah, some of the newer pinball games at the time like Black Knight had voice but the first arcade game I can remember was probably Berserk in 1980, then Gorf the next year.  Both were pretty garbled.  The voice in the Star Wars arcade machine a couple of years later was a bit better though.

EDIT:  Oh sh!t, I just saw that you have past threads through the '80s that cover this stuff.

Last edited by archbrix - on 22 September 2023