Sharky Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Just curious what Game and what home computer/console did you first hear speech! Or lets say the computer "talk" back then. I can recall as early as 1984 on the Atari 800 say Ghostbusters! in the game Ghostbusters. But I know I never heard speech in computer games before then. It blew me out of my mind! That they managed to make a computer say something and you could understand it. Its was all very impressive on 8bit systems (Atari 800, C64) with low memory.. Impossible Mission was the next game to blow my mind. But this gave you a glimpse of the future of gaming. Todays games seem like there more Speech than gameplay and of course the magic has now long gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Han Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I am pretty sure it was Ghostbuster for me too. It was the Spectrum version and I remember reading a speech credit on the loading screen and I thought: "Speech on the Spectrum, yeah right...". But my jaw dropped to the floor when the game had loaded and the Spectrum yelled GHOSTBUSTERS at me... Amazing It wasn't exactly crystal clear, but it was distinguishable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Probably either 5200 Berzerk or Apple II E Castle Wolfenstein or maybe Texas Instuments (There was a cart and voice adapter where the TI said whatever you typed phoneticaly). Can't really remember which I heard first though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artlover Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Hmm, speech as in true computer generated I assume.... Berzerk for the 5200. Back sometime in 1985 I think it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A2600 Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 "Argh" Magitronic PC - 1992 (Wolfestain 3D) "Hello Commander Computer Reporting" INTV - 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Monkey Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 [burp] YER OUT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 It was the Odyssey 2 on some "Circus" clone.. I forget the name but it was at a local electronics store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbid Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 space spartans for the INTV around 1983 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 5200 Berzerk. That was awesome, and an awesome version of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiggerthehun Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I'm pretty sure it was "Impossible Mission" for the C64... "Another visitor... stay awhile... staaaay FOREVER!" and, at the end... "no... No... NOOOOO!!!!" He was a man of few words... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfnmadness Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Odyssey 2 was the first game system I heard with voice. But TI99/4a (Texas Insturments) was the first computer I had to really play with it enabled in most games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I'm pretty sure it was "Impossible Mission" for the C64..."Another visitor... stay awhile... staaaay FOREVER!" and, at the end... "no... No... NOOOOO!!!!" He was a man of few words... It's funny, I get the feeling this was the same for me - except I had a bootleg copy of it, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Ghostbusters as well (C64), though I'm almost certain "Impossible Mission" came out before it... still, I keep thinking Epyx only put the speech into that because they had the memory space left to do it. Still damn glad they did, adds much to the game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Space Spartans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avid Fan Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 it had to be a speak&spell for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Probably either Ghostbusters or Castle Wolfenstien on my Apple IIe. Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Ahh shit! I forgot Castle Wolfenstein. ACHTUNG! That was probably the first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid_sky Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 i dont remeber the first game but i remeber the first time speech blew me away.. it was in a madden game on snes and it sayd "im pat summerall along with john madden saying goodbye, the final score is [score]" at that point i called everyone i knew and was like speech has come into its own just wait man soon games are gonna be all speech and not have text you have to read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiggerthehun Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 It's funny, I get the feeling this was the same for me - except I had a bootleg copy of it, of course. What, they actually SOLD C64 games? I had no idea... I don't think I ever owned a "real copy" of anything. Beach Head, Raid over Moscow, Astec Challenge, Summer Games, Winter Games, Archon, Gyruss...etc... etc... Nope, can't recall a "real" one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 TI 99/4a. My first computer, my first gaming machine, and my first experience with digitized speech. Thanks to the Speech Synthesizer, most of my games talked. Parsec complimented me on my shooting, Moon Mine's villain taunted me when I died, and Spock welcomed me aboard the Enterprise in Sega's Star Trek game. ... It's really amazing how much diffrence a few low-quality digitized speech clips make to the experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophero Sly Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 The first computer I heard speech on was the TI-99/4A...sometime in 81-82. Just construct a simple BASIC program and the TI would speak anything you wanted it to. ...and don't forget the 'Speak and Spell'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasoco Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Skate or Die II on the NES. At the title screen, they sang the theme song. I was impressed the NES could do that. Then Star Fox on the SNES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted July 8, 2003 Author Share Posted July 8, 2003 Actually I was impressed in the Amiga version of Cannon Fodder, at they Intro the whole song was sung. I remember the Amiga talking program, as whatever you type it would say, but it could say the sentences quite right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 What, they actually SOLD C64 games? Aside from collectors, I never knew a C-64 owner who had a game that WASN'T cracked. Was the C-64 that easy to crack or did all you guys just enjoy pirating? Now that its been mentioned, I'm sure I played Castle Wolfenstein first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raijin Z Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 COWA-BUNGA! I've been gaming since 1980, and TMNT, the first arcade version, was the first game I heard digitized speech in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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