Bleep! Wokkawokka! Wawawa!

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Wired invites four sound designers to explore the psychoacoustics of vintage video games. To wit:

As the games got more complex, so did the audio, and the theories behind it. A loop, or short, repeated section of audio, acts as a recurring cue. Dissonant sounds communicate failure, while consonant ones—think of the sympathetic vibrations of Super Mario Bros.—encourage players to continue. The tones can even mimic human sounds—a modulating synthesizer approximates laughter, like the “wawawawawa” in Duck Hunt.

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One thought on “Bleep! Wokkawokka! Wawawa!

  1. Boj

    Nothing better than the Mario jump sound.
    I also liked the clok-clok sound in space invaders as they approached.
    Oh and the building collapse sound in Rampage…ah so many audio-memories!

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