Favorite Sound Effects — Arcade Video Games
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Which arcade video game sound effects (70s - 80s) below is your favorite?
Source: The 50 best arcade games of all time, ever
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The videogame industry is a bigger moneymaker than the global movie and North American sports industries combined. (source: MarketWatch)
Which arcade video game sound effects (70s - 80s) below is your favorite?
Source: The 50 best arcade games of all time, ever
Cast your Vote in the Live Poll
Join the Discussion Here in the IMDb Poll Community Forum
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- Navigate Pac-Man through a maze escaping ghosts and eating Pac-Dots.
- DirectorYoshihisa KishimotoShinichi SaitouMartial arts siblings Billy and Jimmy Lee must battle a tough gang known as the Black Warriors in order to rescue Billy's girlfriend, Marian.
- In a building filled with elevators, you play a spy who must collect secret documents and then escape through the basement. Enemies appear from behind doorways, but you can shoot, kick, drop a light on them or even crush them with the elevator you are in!
- In a maze a blue car on the best PAC MAN style runs faster to catch the yellow flags. It's opponents, the red cars, try to avoid the success of the mission accomplishment. Using smoke and ability the blue car can reach it's aim.
- DirectorShigeru MiyamotoArcade video game and the first in the "Donkey Kong" series in which Jumpman (later retconned to be Mario) runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong.
- As a joust wielding yellow armored knight riding a flying ostrich. You must navigate through a series of floating rock platforms above molten hot lava. With a berserk of enemy knights, many of them riding buzzards who want you for dead. In order to survive, you must use your joust to kill the enemies without getting killed first whether it be by an enemy or accidentally falling into the lava.
- Defend the human population from swarms of attacking aliens.
- DirectorDustin HawkinsPlay as Ralf Jones and Clark Steel and battle through hordes of enemies to reach the jungle village of Ikari.
- Face waves of aliens descending on your spaceship and clear the screen to achieve victory.
- Three heroes try to overthrow the evil rule of Death-Adder, who kidnapped and imprisoned the King and his daughter and stole the legendary Golden Axe.
- This update to Pac-Man (1980) changed the character to a lady, added moving fruit, smarter monsters, cut scenes and more mazes.
- A side-scrolling space-shooter featuring various power-ups and bio-mechanical enemies.
- 1986 Atari skateboarding video game, in which the player controls a skateboarder skating around a neighborhood. By doing jumps and tricks, the player can eventually acquire enough points to compete at a skate park.
- An arcade flight simulator that lets you (the player) pilot an F-14 Tomcat. You must destroy oncoming enemy aircraft's in order to advance through each level.
- You must race your Ferrari through various unique locations in order to reach checkpoints. While playing, the player can choose which route to take and has a choice between one of three different music themes.
- StarsKatuhiko HiranoToshihiro KimuraEigo OkajimaOperation Wolf is a one-player shooter video game made by Taito.
- DirectorDon BluthTony BozekStarsDan MolinaVera PachecoMichael RyeA valiant knight, Dirk the Daring is on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon.
- A nice game with up to four cooperative players exploring dungeons and fighting monsters from a top-view perspective. The four characters that could be played included: - Thyla the Valkarie (female human sword warrior in blue) - Thor the Warrior (male human axe warrior in red) - Merlin the wizard (male human magic-user in yellow) - Questor the Elf (male elf archer in green) Each player's character has different strengths and weaknesses. The players collect food, potions, and treasure in return for points, health, magic and power-ups.
- In this arcade game, you must help a frog cross a highway and a river while avoiding obstacles so he can get to his home safely.
- Bub & Bob, twin dinosaur brothers, begin a fantastic journey to recover the food stolen from their people by the evil Baron Von Bubba.
- DirectorBrian ColinJeff NaumanIn Rampage three people can play at once, each player being a different giant monster that terrorizes cities throughout North America.
- DirectorMedo MorenoJohn RoweDan ViescasPlayers compete against each other in racing around several top-view indoor off-road truck tracks. There are 99 races altogether. First place results earn the player money with which they upgrade their truck or buy more nitro.
- Commonly considered as one of the most influential video games of all time, the goal is to defeat wave after wave of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser cannon to earn as many points as possible.
- DirectorEd LoggYour spaceship is trapped in an asteroid belt. Watch out for enemy spacecraft and maneuver your way out.
- StarsHarrison FordMark HamillJames Earl JonesAssume the role of Luke Skywalker and fight past many enemies to reach and destroy the Death Star.
- You play an athlete competing in a series of track and field athletic competitions.
- 1942 is a vertically scrolling shooter made by Capcom. 1942 is set in the Pacific theater of World War II.
- Face waves of aliens descending on your spaceship and clear the screen to achieve victory.
- You must use a horizontally-sliding paddle to bounce a ball against colorful bars at the top of the screen. Each segment of the bars touched by the ball disappears. The object is to keep the ball ricocheting between your paddle and the bars above until the bars are completely gone and you "break out". You get points for each bar segment you get rid of. If the ball drops below your paddle, you lose a life.
- It is the year 2084, the world we all once knew is now overrun by robots. The majority of mankind was eliminated by the robots during a cybernetic revolt. As the player, you must rescue the surviving humans while defeating an endless wave of killer robots.
- A knight, named Sir Arthur, must defeat zombies, ogres, demons, cyclops, dragons and other monsters in order to rescue Princess Prin Prin, who has been kidnapped by Satan, king of Demon World.
- DirectorMasahisa IkegamiIn the video game DigDug you are the character Doug who has been sent to clear this underground area of all the enemies.