R. Belmont |
Cuckoo for IGAvania
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Reged: 09/21/03
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Loc: ECV-197 The Orville
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Re: "That man is playing Galaga... well, he's playing a YouTube video of the MSX port..."
08/25/13 07:43 PM
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> It makes sense, all they needed was an image on the screen and sounds for 2 seconds. > It would be crazy to go through the hassle of setting up an emulator and finding ROMs > just for that. I'm impressed enough that it was actually some flavor of Galaga. I > don't know how many shows, even today, still use a clip of the 2600 port of Pacman > when the script calls for "video game sounds".
The major studios' sound departments each sell libraries of dozens of CDs worth of sound effects - practical recordings, Foley, electronic, etc. All the studios and most mid-size or larger video game developers have a copy or 3. One of those libraries contains "video game sounds" which are all stuff sampled off 2600 Pac-Man by someone back in the 80s.
WRT the original post, Downey ad-libbed the Galaga reference so it's fairly impressive the art department even pulled in something that actually was Galaga at all.
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