MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: "That man is playing Galaga... well, he's playing a YouTube video of the MSX port..."

> > 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.

Very true. They either use the sounds from the 2600 version of Pac-Man or the 2600 of Donkey Kong. It's ironic they pick two of the worst arcade ports to represent sounds for all of video games.

That's why I was blown away when I saw Tron Legacy. When walking through Flynn's Arcade, every game was 1) A real arcade game 2) Had its correct sounds placed correctly relative to its position in the arcade. The sound designer on that movie was a obviously a video game buff and really cared about getting it perfect.