Robotron = Generic Video Game noise

[councilface]

Hi all,

Has anyone else noticed that when generic video game noise is required in films and on TV they usually use the FX from Robotron? I thought that this was purely a British phenomenon but I have heard Robotron on a few U.S. shows too.

More importantly is Mr Jarvis receiving any royalties?

[Ginsu Victim]

In the US, I've noticed the use of the 2600 Pac-man sounds the most.

[TOK]

I hear Centipede sounds a lot.

[HanoiBoi]

Not exactly the same thing, but I used to hear the 'nurse pages' from Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime in TV shows all the time.  I'm guessing they were stock from somewhere else and not owned by Queensryche.

Hope that's not too off topic....

[Ginsu Victim]

Not exactly the same thing, but I used to hear the 'nurse pages' from Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime in TV shows all the time.  I'm guessing they were stock from somewhere else and not owned by Queensryche.

Hope that's not too off topic....

Yep. It's stock. "Dr Blair, telephone please, Dr Blair......Dr Hamilton, Dr Jay Hamilton" or something like that. I always made the Mindcrime connection too.

[SavannahLion]

In the US, I've noticed the use of the 2600 Pac-man sounds the most.

+1

Only the Wilhelm deserves to be recycled to the point of death.

[Edwards80]

I always notice people playing DMD era pinball machines in TV shows/Movies that mysteriously have the electromechanical "ding ding ding" sound effects 

[DeLuSioNal29]

I've heard a lot of sounds from Doom on the PC.  Mainly the sound of the monsters dying and getting hit and stuff.  Also the sound of the rocket launcher.  I'm guessing that ID software used some royalty free sound effects for their game.

[delta88]

I cant recall but I have heard the ahofle arcade track --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type-- in mainstream use. be it the radio or tv it was one of them. Pointed it out and my wife still thinks im a big Nerd

[RayB]

I can't say I've ever heard Robotron in tv or movie sound effects. It's always Donkey Kong and Atari 2600 Pac Man. Which is really weird, because often they are showing someone playing something modern like a Playstation 2 or Xbox, and yet the effects are 80's bleeps and bloops.

[ahofle]

I cant recall but I have heard the ahofle arcade track --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type-- in mainstream use. be it the radio or tv it was one of them. Pointed it out and my wife still thinks im a big Nerd

First few seconds of this video:

...were taken from this sample on my website.
 

[opt2not]

I think we hear what we want to hear.

In fact, I hear Robotron all the time. THE HUMAN RACE IS INEFFICIENT

[Ginsu Victim]

I cant recall but I have heard the ahofle arcade track --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type-- in mainstream use. be it the radio or tv it was one of them. Pointed it out and my wife still thinks im a big Nerd

First few seconds of this video:

...were taken from this sample on my website.
 

That's totally your track!

[delta88]

hmmm, I heard it somewhere else but yeah thats it. 

[RayB]

It's also in We Are The Strange, in the arcade scene. (But this movie is chock full of sourced sounds, so no surprise)