For me it will always be associated with Quake, although my first foray to world of Quake was with Quake Live. Still play it sometimes.
A history of Hup, the jump sound of shooting games
31–40 of 107 posts
Re: A history of Hup, the jump sound of shooting games
#32The 'hup' for me will always be associated with Quake, as I played that for a long time. When I was a youngster in the early 90s, a grade school classmate of mine had a huge computer network at home. His dad worked for the (local) Washington, DC NBC affiliate as one of their system engineers. Their house was fully networked mecca of multiple Unix, Windows, and Apple machines on different floors. Back then most homes…
> When I was a youngster in the early 90s [...] most homes didn't have a computer "Most homes" might be technically correct, but home computers were a thing since the late 70s, and really taking off in the early 1980s withe the ZX81, ZX Spectrum, VIC 20, Commodore 64, and a myriad of others, depending on your geography. > Almost nobody my age was playing computer games, only people working in industry. This, of cours…
>Almost nobody my age was playing computer games, only people working in industry.
I recall these days and this statement has some truth to it. Sure, a lot of folks had home computers, but they were mostly people who were interested in computers in the first place, and that was because of their work in the industry.
Re: A history of Hup, the jump sound of shooting games
#33I always thought it came from Blues Brothers (albeit "hut" vs "hup", but we were always saying it for jumping around sounds in the 80s and after): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atks5rRqQkg
Re: A history of Hup, the jump sound of shooting games
#34In a sense, every (English?) word that ends in a vowel eventually ends in a 'p' when you close your mouth. Hup! Nope! Welp! Yep!
What?
Re: A history of Hup, the jump sound of shooting games
#35In Norwegian (and probably other Scandinavic languages) the word for "jump" is "hopp".
I've never realized before how intuitive I've always felt it to be.
It's like an animal sound verb (mooing etc.), just for a human activity.
Re: A history of Hup, the jump sound of shooting games
#36They mention Goldeneye lacking a jump sound. Am I remembering incorrectly that it dind't have jumping at all?
Yeah there's no jumping.
Re: A history of Hup, the jump sound of shooting games
#37They mention Goldeneye lacking a jump sound. Am I remembering incorrectly that it dind't have jumping at all?
Bond couldn't jump, but I'm pretty sure I remember enemies doing a jump and roll thing. It's been long enough that I don't entirely trust that memory, though.
Pretty sure you are right. I can see the image in my head, the soldier would roll and then kneel while shooting. Bond had no jump that I can I remember though.
And now that I wrote that I sincerely hope to not have it mixed up with the "kneel while shooting" stance of the enemies in deus ex. Those did no roll.
Edit: One can one enemy see do the roll in the next few seconds of https://youtu.be/D6l6_WKxRck?t=353.
Re: A history of Hup, the jump sound of shooting games
#38The 'hup' for me will always be associated with Quake, as I played that for a long time. When I was a youngster in the early 90s, a grade school classmate of mine had a huge computer network at home. His dad worked for the (local) Washington, DC NBC affiliate as one of their system engineers. Their house was fully networked mecca of multiple Unix, Windows, and Apple machines on different floors. Back then most homes…
> When I was a youngster in the early 90s [...] most homes didn't have a computer "Most homes" might be technically correct, but home computers were a thing since the late 70s, and really taking off in the early 1980s withe the ZX81, ZX Spectrum, VIC 20, Commodore 64, and a myriad of others, depending on your geography. > Almost nobody my age was playing computer games, only people working in industry. This, of cours…
This strikes me as a bit pedantic as both of you are somewhat right and ultimately a lot of the assessments have been pretty subjective/qualitative. I tend to lean towards the other guy’s characterization personally, but I wouldn’t say you’re wrong. Part of it is that we have to recognize the video game industry dwarfs all other media right now - but in the early 90’s? Not even close. Yes gaming existed prior, including computer games, but the vast majority of kids did not have the technical know-how, let alone the hardware, to install and run them until later in the decade. Adults at the time were a very mixed bag about it, with most electing to not participate at all.
Doom came out in 1993. Things really began to shift about that time. By ‘96/‘97 you had Starcraft and other games start blowing up, but that’s latter half of the decade for sure.
Re: A history of Hup, the jump sound of shooting games
#39I wonder if there is some connection to the underground HUP comics (1987-1992).
Re: A history of Hup, the jump sound of shooting games
#40In Norwegian (and probably other Scandinavic languages) the word for "jump" is "hopp". I've never realized before how intuitive I've always felt it to be. It's like an animal sound verb (mooing etc.), just for a human activity.
The English cognate is to hop, to jump on one leg or make a small jump.