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I 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 I

I 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-Electronic/dp/B07H88PM88/ 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...

tomc1985 5y ago
Yeah, I have multiple sets of some of these sounds in WAV format, as do many others. Hard to believe anything about them is "endangered" In fact, why isn't this site providing a downloadable link to these files? If he is really interested in preservation, they should provide a download link instead of paragraphs of fluff. Because the really endangered concept here is the notion of "files", which anyone publishing anything on the cloud seems to want to do away with.
- tablespoon 5y ago
  > Yeah, I have multiple sets of some of these sounds in WAV format, as do many others. Hard to believe anything about them is "endangered" I would say sounds that exist mainly as WAVs on someone's computer are properly endangered. The point I was making is that some of these sounds are from things (mainly video games) that will be endlessly (and easily) recycled forever, so they aren't actually endangered. Others, from formerly ubiquitous but now utterly obsolete hardware and software, are truly engendered.
CharlesW 5y ago
> Now, the cacophony of a popular video game arcade... What year? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6aNPsjNwFo&list=PL5G6BYUMbQ3CVBS1crNATU0YTy1nAWZse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6aNPsjNwFo&list=PL5G6BYUMbQ...
lostgame 5y ago
>> 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.

tomc1985 5y ago

Yeah, I have multiple sets of some of these sounds in WAV format, as do many others. Hard to believe anything about them is "endangered" In fact, why isn't this site providing a downloadable link to these files? If he is really interested in preservation, they should provide a download link instead of paragraphs of fluff. Because the really endangered concept here is the notion of "files", which anyone publishing anything on the cloud seems to want to do away with.

tablespoon 5y ago
> Yeah, I have multiple sets of some of these sounds in WAV format, as do many others. Hard to believe anything about them is "endangered" I would say sounds that exist mainly as WAVs on someone's computer are properly endangered. The point I was making is that some of these sounds are from things (mainly video games) that will be endlessly (and easily) recycled forever, so they aren't actually endangered. Others, from formerly ubiquitous but now utterly obsolete hardware and software, are truly engendered.

CharlesW 5y ago

> Now, the cacophony of a popular video game arcade... What year? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6aNPsjNwFo&list=PL5G6BYUMbQ3CVBS1crNATU0YTy1nAWZse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6aNPsjNwFo&list=PL5G6BYUMbQ...

lostgame 5y ago

>> 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.