- Commodore 1541 drive music
- Captain Crunch whistle
- Commodore C64 SAM TTS
The Museum of Endangered Sounds
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#32That ZX Spectrum is clearly loading a game splash screen (or "loading screen" as we called them).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rqxz23IxRY
In the old times I could have probably guessed what game it was loading by the sound alone, if it was one that I played often!
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#33I appreciate the effort, but there's no way stuff like "Space Invaders" and "Pac Man" sound effects are endangered. It'll be around forever via emulation and IP-value extraction (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Bandai-Namco-Flashback-Blast-Console-... ), at least until "retro" stops being cool. Now, the cacophony of a popular video game arcade...
>> Now, the cacophony of a popular video game arcade...
We’ve got maybe half a dozen arcade bars here in Toronto that are so popular lines form out the door virtually every Friday and Saturday night - particularly awesome is the TILT arcade bar around Bathurst and Dundas.
It’s an insane deal, too - $5, taxes in, gets you all you can play for pretty much as long as you’d like to stay there. They have dozens of original arcade cabinets, from fighters to light gun games to a double cabinet Mario Kart that you can do 2P versus on.
They even have booths with retro consoles like N64, SNES, Sega Genesis, etc; so people can play Mario Kart 64, etc. It’s seriously magical.
It’s brought arcades back in a way that I thought I’d never experience again - but now that I’m 32 I can enjoy a beer while my girlfriend and I beat the shit out of each other on a genuine Street Fighter II cabinet.
The cacophony of the arcade is very, very much real at these places, and TILT is one of my favourite date night places in the city. :)
Maybe the trend hasn’t hit your city yet - I know most major cities in the States have similar places - but arcades are not only alive and well, but thriving; and have been given a second lease on life that few dead industries get.
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#35Modems screeching down the line, now that's a sound burnt into my synapses from the 90s!
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#36The whir and clickity click of a 80 track 5.25" floppy disk drive
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#37Tape cassette player on audio loading a program onto the BBC B micro.