The StarCraft installer sound

[Dhsu]

You know that sound effect you hear when your stick in your SC CD and it autoplays and freaks you the fuzz out because your volume was turned up too high.

It's been in like the last 5 movies I've seen (a couple of which were in the Saw series) so I'm curious about it. Where did it come from, where did it go...

If you know the answer you get an Asian blowjob.

[OverCoat]

Hell if I know, but speaking of asian blowjobs, I recently heard that sound in Viper GTS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viper_GTS). :D

[GeckoYamori]

Hollywood sample library.

Another overused sound also found in Starcraft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6_hok4-lo&

[Dhsu]

Haha, they should call it the Wilhelm 2.

Well I guess this means Gecko gets the blowjob. Now I need to find a place that ships to Sweden...

[GeckoYamori]

I also know of a bunch of short grunt noises I've heard in many crappy games, and most recently some American white trash daytime TV show.

Man, someone with a bit more insight should make a "10 most overused samples in media" article.

[Brycepops]

Hollywood sample library.

Another overused sound also found in Starcraft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6_hok4-lo&

LOL @ Wonder Showzen.

[DJMetal]

Man...I remember dark forces...and I remember that sample! Good times, good times.

[The Coop]

If I recall, isn't there another "used in many films" scream that crops up in the Indiana Jones trilogy (back when it was a trilogy)? It's usually used for enemy soldiers as they fall as well.

[Abadoss]

That would be the Wilhelm 1 scream...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBXkfb7Ok0o&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio&feature=related

[The Coop]

I was just about to edit my post after a Google search, but Wilhelm it is, and here it is...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream


Thanks nonetheless, Abadoss.

[yangfeili]

There are tons of sounds that were used in Daggerfall which I hear all the time in stuff on TV, particularly on the sci-fi channel. The magic casting sound, the door opening sound, the skeleton scream...

[Dhsu]

Oh yeah, I hear the Zelda door and pot-smashing sounds all the time. And the Diablo II item and spell sounds.

Maybe this thread should just be renamed the "stock SFX in video games" or something.

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Wow, 11k.

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[The Author]

Oh yeah, I hear the Zelda door and pot-smashing sounds all the time. And the Diablo II item and spell sounds.

Maybe this thread should just be renamed the "stock SFX in video games" or something.

Edit:
Wow, 11k.

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Man, that's a lot of posts...


But yeah, at some point you have to wonder why so many SFX are used in many games...

[Chickenwarlord]

I also know of a bunch of short grunt noises I've heard in many crappy games, and most recently some American white trash daytime TV show.

Man, someone with a bit more insight should make a "10 most overused samples in media" article.

I hereby nominate the 'flip' sound used in comedies when quickly changing from plot to plot.

[suzumebachi]

Doom 1 and 2 use a number of these stock sound effects too. Like the doors opening, and the imps screaming, and the zombie guys dying. I wish I had .wav examples to show you, but they've all been used in hundreds of movies, TV shows, and commercials as well as countless other games.

[Final_metroid]

Whats the sound around 2:30? I hear that alot. Also, does that scream at 3:56 have a name?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J7T6HFZBNxc

[The Pezman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBXkfb7Ok0o&feature=related
THANK YOU! I have been trying to discover some consensus on that second sound for a while now. I KNEW it was another Wilhelm (was already familiar with the actual Wilhelm). It actually shows up in Crash Bandicoot 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueFImM-h49w&feature=related) (at 4:06)

[zircon]

All of you need to check out this page. It's not really about sound effects, it's more about music samples and synth patches, but it's just awesome - and it was updated recently.

http://www.synthmania.com/Famous%20Sounds.htm

[Hemophiliac]

http://filmsound.org/cliche/

you've probably noticed/heard most of these

note: mostly older films.

[Brycepops]

Whats the sound around 2:30? I hear that alot. Also, does that scream at 3:56 have a name?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J7T6HFZBNxc

I have no idea what that scream is called, but it's in Super Hero Movie as well.

[SetzerGabbiani]

Hell if I know, but speaking of asian blowjobs, I recently heard that sound in Viper GTS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viper_GTS). :D

gawd I love that anime lawl XD

[passion]

This one's a tv stock sound but I've heard it in at least one video game(streets of Sim City), and I swear I've heard it at least once a week for every week of my life.

The police radio lady.

She says something along the lines of
"plain and central 149th street... "
or maybe
"1-8-7 on 49th street.."
I've heard it on old movies, new movies, videogames, and new tv shows(maybe Heroes? I can't remember).

It's inescapable. I'd go on a rampage, but then the mounties would arrest me and there'd be a lady on the radio going "plain and central 149th street."

[SoulinEther]

This one's a tv stock sound but I've heard it in at least one video game(streets of Sim City), and I swear I've heard it at least once a week for every week of my life.

The police radio lady.

She says something along the lines of
"plain and central 149th street... "
or maybe
"1-8-7 on 49th street.."
I've heard it on old movies, new movies, videogames, and new tv shows(maybe Heroes? I can't remember).

It's inescapable. I'd go on a rampage, but then the mounties would arrest me and there'd be a lady on the radio going "plain and central 149th street."
I know it too.

All of Blizzard's games use these sound effects. The Town Portal casting sound in d2 has been heavily overused in sci fi and magic/fantasy movies and series for.. ever.

[Moseph]

This one's a tv stock sound but I've heard it in at least one video game(streets of Sim City), and I swear I've heard it at least once a week for every week of my life.

The police radio lady.

She says something along the lines of
"plain and central 149th street... "
or maybe
"1-8-7 on 49th street.."
I've heard it on old movies, new movies, videogames, and new tv shows(maybe Heroes? I can't remember).

It's inescapable. I'd go on a rampage, but then the mounties would arrest me and there'd be a lady on the radio going "plain and central 149th street."

I definitely know this sample, too.

There's a particular car-suspension-bottoming-out sound that I've heard used many places, but I don't remember specifically where (I think it may have been in Midtown Madness, and possibly the movie Paycheck). If I locate an example, I'll post it.

[FlamingTP]

a lot of those old effects that you hear all over the place originally came from games in the first place. Most of the ones mentioned here are from movies, but some came from the games themselves.

[m68030]

I'm haunted by the water dripping noise that I first heard in Quake 1.

It had a particularly melodic quality to it that makes it easy to pick out.

I cannot count how many games, movies, tv shows, etc I've heard it in.

[Bleck]

cat noises

they are always exactly the same

[XSlicer]

In Fight Club, there's this specific moment where the Tyler threatens his boss. It's Zerg music being played there.
Besides that, there's a lot more in Fight Club..

[Kulaman]

the noise they use for lifts in Sci-fi movies and games. First place i heard it was in AvP Gold...